This week I was determined to finish this chair.
The covered buttons worked out pretty well and I could easily place them at the original spots because they had cut holes in the foam when the chair was manufactured in 1984.
I bought tack strips in an effort to replicate the original work.
I was not really sure it was worth the effort, but I'm
really glad I got them. They made finishing the back and sides so much easier.
The skirt even fit back in place!
So I started with these two chairs (I'm sure there is a better picture somewhere)
and ended up with the ones above. I Scotch Guarded the fabric afterward and hopefully they will look decent for a few years.
I'm trying to think if there are any good lessons I learned from doing these.
Was it worth the money? I think so...$113 for the fabric (bought on E-bay) and I still have some left. I started with 12 yards of 60" wide fabric and have almost 2 yards remaining.
I bought the covered button replacements at about $15
Metal tack strips..$27 and I way over-estimated what I needed and used only 1/2 of what I ordered.
Staples...not sure what they cost.
We had a staple gun...about them...I would probably have looked into getting a better one,
BUT the whole idea was to save money.
If I decide to fix up another chair I might look around for a more powerful stapler.
So I spent a little less than $75 a chair and about 2-1/2 weeks of "me-time" .
Yup, I think it was worth it.
So school is over...all except the report cards.
Someone needs to write a book about the "Longest Summer EVER!"
I really need to figure a way to keep my child/ren occupied and off the screens.
One might have a job but this one...
She is busy reading the Mandie series, thanks to our neighbor who loaned them to her.
We are doing a math curriculum and learning to type (much to her dismay)
Actually most days she does enjoy it.
But what about the hours in between? There are times when independent play would be a good idea.
I was scrolling through Pinterest the other day and came across a "mud kitchen"
It might be a hit!
I'm sure this munchkin would love to help in a mud kitchen.
I love when my grands ask to call "ga-ga" and reach for me when I show up.
I'm told she does this to her other grandma too, but it makes me feel important.
I finally made an insert for my leather bag.
I've been toting this one for more than a year and I love it BUT
it could use another pocket inside and I saw removable bag inserts and thought I'd try it out.
I made it of mostly canvas so I don't add extra weight.
I skipped a closure for now...see how it works.
My bag did go for a tumble the other day in the van and nothing fell out.
Thought for the day: About social distancing...I've sat through a few lectures on how trauma affects children. Most experts agree that safe touch is especially healing for a child of trauma. Most of those same experts say that our current (back then BC=Before Covid) hands-off approach to our children in schools etc --while understandable was not a good way to work with hurt children.
Now we have another layer of distancing for our hurting population (this isn't just kids BTW, it includes adults too). Masks and gloves are not the way to communicate trust and calm fear. When I meet a patient while on ambulance duty, I often lay a hand on their shoulder, but now I find myself second-guessing that. I'm not really afraid of catching something, but I have to clean every surface I touch after I touch my patient. What a pain! But people still need safe-touch, they need a smile--smiling eyes. I'm not totally against the masks, because I know that you can tell much more about a person by looking at only their eyes. Today with masks you can tell a lot more about what's going on inside a person because you look at their eyes than when you are distracted by a big...but fake...smile.
So smile--with your eyes too.
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