My bed obsession!

OK so I may have a bedding obsession. 

While I "liked" the orange bedding from last summer, I didn't LOVE it so I switched it out, AGAIN! And it wasn't without a lot of angst.

I had been Googling "watercolour" bedding for more than a month.  I found some "BluebelleGray" at The Bay that I was coveting and when I realized that the cost was a bit high I thought if I watched it long enough it would go on sale . . . it did . . . and I had a $100 gift certificate for WEM (that's West Edmonton Mall for any of you who don't live in Alberta) so I ran over to the west end on a Sunday that I had WAY too many other things to do but . . . my obsession took over!

While there I had to wait quite a while for help as they didn't have the style I wanted on the floor but I was told that if I ordered the one I wanted they would mail it directly to my house.  Hell at 25% off and $100 gift certificate it was going to be under $90 so why not.

After a LOT longer of a wait when they rang it in it came up as regular price.  How could that be . . . it was just on sale yesterday and I checked the sign when I got in to the store just to be sure.  Well, I was told that's only for "that" as she pointed to the pillows . . . I DON'T WANT PILLOWS I was thinking in my head . . . "then I don't want it".  You must know that I never buy anything full price unless it's an emergency or I HAVE TO HAVE IT . . . it wasn't and I didn't!

A week later while babysitting my fantastic nephew Sam, we were so close to Fabricland we just had to pop in . . . we were in St. Albert waiting for my niece Anna to finish up her gymnastics and what a better way to kill time than to shop for me! LOL

I found the perfect watercolour bedding and not only was it the size I wanted, it was 65% off the last ticketed price so for $83.00 I got a duvet cover and two king pillow cases (this was exactly what was in the package for the one at the Bay)!

I get it on my bed and it's "missing something" . . . so I decide to make a simple throw out of three contrasting colours . . . see here!

Then I sew it all together - yes I made all of the piping myself (they never have the colour I want and I want "special").

Here's the new bedding - hopefully it will last more than one year like the last bedding (which I have now added to for putting over the benches in the back yard) but I'll blog that another time.

And yes, the pillow is upside down but I don't care!  I'll deal with that the next time I make the bed!

Reupolstered Chair

As you know I finished the "memorial chair" (AKA Crying Chair) a few weeks ago with my new upholstery gun . . . SO FUN . . . and I had been asked to do another one when that was finished.  Between the wedding shower quickly approaching and taking on another bridal gown (alteration) last week I thought I'd better get that done before I get started on anything else.  It would go quickly I said . . . It will be easy I said . . .

Well not so easy when you are taking apart a chair that is bolted together with 5" bolts, nuts and washers!

Here's the before pic! Kinda ugly with its fake/faux grey velvet!

And following a pics of putting it during the process.  While you might wonder why on earth would you leave the original fabric on . . . the answer is it was in really good condition and while it may have "looked" stained it was clean . . . so I kept it on!

Removal of the faux velvet revealed its "original"
 brown/tan looped nylon

Removed the back from the seat

Reveal of the back of the seat
after removal of the upper back

Arms removed

All apart now

Covered the original fabric with batting
 

And it's done - all put back together . . . even the arm that was separating from the bottom part is glued back on!

YES, SHE LOVES IT!

Sail away . . .

well not really . . .

Summer is upon us and the back yard is coming along.  Several years ago I purchased a nylon shade sail at IKEA and covered it with some really cute flip flop sandal material to match all of the brightly coloured Adirondack chairs . . . towards the end of last year the chairs were becoming a bit "weathered" looking so I decided to make some changes and go with an anologous colour scheme red/orange/pink (notice these colours were the inspiration for my niece's wedding shower), so I started with red and white and orange curtains for the garage deck and got 8 red/white chair covers for $5 bucks each at SaveonFoods towards the end of the season.  Then this year I purchased 10 seat cushions from SaveonFoods for $2.25/cushion (but that's another Blog).

While I could have possibly chosen a coloured shade sail, I decided to keep the "big stuff" neutral and go with a painters tarp/burlap colour.

I purchased the two 10' triangular ones first to ensure I'd like them (Amazon $20/each) and then purchased the 20' X 20' with two poles to support the corners that couldn't be supported by either the garage or a tree!  Once I got the two 10' triangular ones up on the house deck I decided it wasn't enough and purchased a 12' one . . . here are the pics only of the shade sails installed this weekend.

 

 

These are the 10' (outside ones) and 12' in the middle

 
 

This is the humungo 20' Square

If not for my very beautiful niece (Sydney) and her very handsome (AND TALL) boyfriend (Geoff) this could not have happened!

LOVE THEM!