I've been a very terrible blogger and have been out of commission for a while. Life was happening and just could not get my fingers to type and post a message. Here is Canada this is a long weekend - Canada Day! So I have an extra day and no excuse not to post. Although I have been terrible about blogging I have been creative. I don't know about all of you, but I cannot organise all my ideas, not only that but there is not hope that I can create all that I want to while working full time. As I'm sure many of you feel as well, I only wish that one day I can make enough money selling creations to support myself! DREAMS, without them we have nothing.
One of the projects I have recently finished is a restoration of an antique wood chair. I picked up a couple of them a few months ago...well 4 of them and each one was broken and / or missing pieces. I used one for parts and have been restoring the other three. I love when I can take something, especially something with a history and restore it. Saving it from the landfill. Antique furniture is made so much better than most of what we have today and scratches and bruises on it give is so much character.
With this project I was lucky that they were 4 similar chairs so that I could take one apart for pieces to fix the other three. The chair I will show below was in bad shape. It had a front leg that was broken in two and it was missing a spindle at the bottom. I took it all apart and sanded the every piece down to nice new wood. It had about 4 coats of paint so it took quite awhile to get it nice and smooth. Then I repaired and glued all the pieces back together. You could probably dance on it now with out fearing it would crash you to the floor! Once it was all sanded and glued I painted it a flat black. I like primitives and knew that I would want to distress it. It was really old and dry and sucked all the paint in so it took a couple of coats of paint before it was ready for the next step. I drew and painted a Mandela on the seat. I originally was thinking of doing the Mandela in colour and did do that, but found I didn't like it. So I got back to sanding and sanded all the colour paint off. This time I decided to make the Mandela plain white. It looks awesome. I'm still considering painting a pattern on the centre of the top panel of the back Not sure yet. Maybe a small Mandela or some paisley pattern... of course all in white. Once I've decided what I'm going to do on the back then I will wax it. Let me know what you think?
