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Burlap Lamp Shades {Pottery Barn Copied Me!}

March 11, 2012 AT 9:21 pm 27 Comments

March 11, 2012 By traci 27 Comments

Okay, ladies.

Last night, I was looking through the latest Pottery Barn Kids magazine for some decorating inspiration, when I saw something that caught my eye.

It was something that looked very familiar to me. A boy’s burlap lampshade.

pottery barn kids

I recognized it because it looks eerily similar to the lamp shades I made for my boys’ room 3 years ago!

Yep! It was my idea first!

(Okay, maybe not. But I’m am TOTALLY claiming it as my original idea!)

I had never seen anything like them before. I just had some lamp shades for my boys’ room that needed some updating. So I decided on burlap, (since it is my favorite material in the world.) But they were still a little too plain, so I decided to paint some red numbers on them to match the colors in their room.

So ya see? My idea. Smile

These lamp shades were featured a lot in blogland, so I think the folks at Pottery Barn saw them and was inspired by ME. (A girl can dream, right?!)

Anyway, since I completed this project “pre-Pinterest” days, I thought I would share the post with my readers again. (Especially since I have about 4,000 new readers since I first published this!)

Updating Lamp Shades for the Boys’ Room

I am loving the new update for the lamp shades in my boys’ room!

It’s exactly what I had envisioned in my head. I bought some lamp shades from Target for the boys’ room a couple of years ago. They weren’t exactly what I was looking for, but they were the right size and shape, (and price).

They were covered with a tan paper that began to bubble. I tried to ignore it, but it was driving me crazy.

I began to think about how I could recover them…maybe with new material? blue? red? khaki? And then it hit me….BURLAP, BABY!

If you don’t know about my obsession with burlap, just click on “burlap projects” in my archives, and you’ll get a good idea. Smile

I already had some leftover burlap, so I quickly got to work. First I pulled the navy blue trim off of the lamp shade. That was super easy.

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Then I took my burlap and wrapped it around the shade.

I covered each side of the shade with fabric glue and a sponge brush and pressed the burlap to the shade.

Then I let it dry. I tucked the edge of the material under and secured it with my glue gun.

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Press the seam down and it will lay nice and flat. Just be careful because the glue can seep through the holes of the burlap! Trust me…I know!

Once I had the whole shade covered in burlap, it was time to put the trim back on.

First, I trimmed the burlap around all of the edges with my scissors. Next, I got out my trusty glue gun and glued the ribbon back on.

They were already looking sooooo good to me!

But it needed something else. They were just a little too plain for me.

Sooooo. I bought some stencils at Michael’s (with a coupon) for 4 bucks. Then I got out my sponge brush and the same paint that I used to paint the boys’ collector’s shelves. (Colonial Red)

I let the boys picked out a number that they wanted stenciled on their lamp shade, and I got to work.

I taped the stencil in place and applied the paint with my sponge brush.

Then I used a smaller paint brush to go over the edges of the numbers to make them more even.

They are perfect! To me, at least.

It was nighttime when I took the pictures of the lamp shades in the boys’ room, so I used my flash for some of them. ( I usually try not to do that, but in this case I thought some of the pictures turned out better with the flash.)

The boys are thrilled! They love having those lamps beside their beds to read at night.

If you want to learn how to make a collector’s shelf similar to the ones in the boys’ room, click HERE.

I bought the swing arm lamps at Goodwill for $2.50 a piece. They were an ugly brass, so I spray painted them with a metal spray paint from Lowe’s. It was called “hammered metal” or something like that. It was two years ago…

Well, that’s it! It took me about 30 minutes to complete this project. It was well worth the time and $4.00 I spent on it. Don’t you agree?

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So there you have it!

What do you think? Do you agree they copied off me? (I’m not looking for honesty here, y’all!)

Maybe I should change their picture a little (hee,hee)…

Pin that, Baby!

(P.S. If you were to find out that Pottery Barn had these lamps shades for sale before I made mine, please do not leave a comment telling me so. It will burst the little happy bubble I am living in right now.) Smile

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“I Celebrate YOU” Tablescape {Guest Post by Me!}

May 25, 2011 AT 12:07 am 16 Comments

May 25, 2011 By traci 16 Comments

Hey Guys!

Today is the only day that someone didn’t sign up to guest post for my “Help, I’m moving!” series, but I had a saved post from a guest post I did at Positively Splendid, so I thought this would be the perfect time to share it.

Can I guest post on my own blog?

Well, I am!

But before I do, I just had to share this year’s Easter picture with the boys. It was a rainy day, but that didn’t stop us from getting a quick picture. Unfortunately, dead batteries did stop us from getting a picture with Daddy. :(

I love these boys so much!!!! (and I love the one taking the picture too!)

I am hoping to get some family pictures soon when the weather starts cooperating!

My post for today is about celebrating your loved ones.

This would be a great tablescape to celebrate your children on their first full day home for the summer.

Or it would be a great way to celebrate the special friends in your life.

There is not much of a tutorial for this post, just inspiration.

I had a wooden picture frame that I painted white, and then I hot glued a pink flower to the top right corner.

I used my Silhouette machine to print out the words “there is no one like YOU” on black fabric. I used my heat transfer material from Silhouette to iron the words on a piece of burlap.

This can be done without a Silhouette machine. If I didn’t have one, I would find a stencil I liked and use black paint and a sponge brush to paint it on the burlap. (Or just paint it free hand!)

For my tablescape, I cut rectangular placemats from burlap and frayed the edges.

I used some black and white gingham napkins that I got at a yard sale last year for 25 cents a piece.

Then I used some expressions from the online Silhouette store to iron on the bottom right corner of each placemat.

I love thinking of my guests or my children reading these words over and over as they eat their meal.

I kept moving the picture frame around as I took pictures. It finally ended up on the side table!

It’s so bright and cheerful!

When my boys came home from school today, they saw my tablescape and loved it. They asked me which seat was theirs?

I said, “Take your pick! Because each of you make me smile, make me happy, melt my heart, and I simply adore you.”

I hope this gives you a little idea of how you can celebrate the ones you love this summer!

A few days after I took these pictures, it was Mother’s Day. So I decided my frame would be a perfect gift for mom. Dad and I visited Mom’s grave on Mother’s Day, and I placed the frame on her headstone with the bright yellow flowers.

I miss her so much.

Promise me you will take time this very day to tell your loved ones how precious they are to you!

Thanks!

Traci

P.S. YOU are precious to me!!!

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Burlap Tiebacks with Interchangeable Flowers

May 6, 2011 AT 10:17 am 11 Comments

May 6, 2011 By traci 11 Comments

Happy Friday, ya’ll!

If you missed this tutorial that I did for my fellow Kentuckian, Gail at My Repurposed Life, here it is!

I want to share with you how I made burlap tiebacks with interchangeable flowers that I made for my drop cloth curtains.

I got my inspiration for this project when I went shopping with Sarah, Thrifty Decor Chick, last month. We went to the Ballard Designs’ outlet store, and I almost bought these burlap curtain tiebacks that were on sale(picture below). One thing you need to know about me is I love burlap!

Then I came to my senses and said, “Why would I buy this, when I can make it!”

Oh, it’s the blogger in me.

I decided I wanted to make a flower with a little more spring flare, so I chose to make a pink one. (Or we can call it “Honeysuckle” which is the color of the year.)

You have probably seen how to make one of these silk flowers before in blogland. So have I, but I had never tried to make one for myself.

Can you say, F-U-N!

I had a blast making these flowers. (I may have even created a new obsession for me!)

I bought this costume silk at Walmart. I got 1/4 of a yard, and it cost me only $.67!

First, I cut out five circles of descending sizes and traced them onto my pink silk fabric.

Then, I cut five slits on each circle to create the “petals”.

Carefully hold each circle of material over a small flame, (a tea light works best) and let the heat singe the edges.

Follow the two steps above with each circle and then layer them on top of each other to create the flower.

The last step is to get a needle and thread to attach the pearl button in the middle of the flower. Start from the back of the flower so the knot in the thread will not be seen.

Precious!

To make the burlap tieback, I just cut a piece of burlap 9 inches by 30 inches, folded it longways, and stitched up 2 of the three sides, leaving a hole at one end to pull the material through.

Then I ironed it flat…right side out, and stitched up the remaining side.

I also made two little strips of burlap to create loops on the inside of each side of my tieback, so I could attach the tieback to the wall with a hook.

The only thing left to do was attach the “hook & eyes” to the flowers and tiebacks.

And now I have a beautiful burlap curtain tieback!

I had so much fun making that flower, that I made two more flowers using a different technique that I will be sharing on my blog in the future.

I sewed a “hook” on the back of each of my flowers, so I can change them out whenever I want. How fun!!

I can think of a million different kinds of flowers to make. Maybe red ones around Christmas?

What do you think?

Of course, you could used this same concept with a different type material, if you do not like burlap.

Let me know if you give it a try. :)

Have a blessed day!

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Burlap Bird Pillow

July 19, 2010 AT 12:19 am 25 Comments

July 19, 2010 By cyndi 25 Comments

Well, I was inspired so much by the bird pillows that Suzanne from Just Another Hang Up made that I decided to try and make one for myself.

Now don’t go a thinkin’ that my pillow will look anything like hers, ’cause it won’t! I just wanted to make a pillow with a bird on it..that’s it folks! No fancy ruffles. :)

Since we stained our patio concrete floor brown to look like tile, I decided to use some leftover brown burlap material to make my pillow.

I followed Suzanne’s instructions and found a picture of a bird online. I found it by googling “bird silhouette” to see what would come up. When I found a bird that I liked, I printed it out on my computer.

Then I placed a cutting board underneath the paper, and cut out the shape of the bird with my exacto knife.

I cut two 14.5 x 14.5 inch pieces of burlap for my 14 x 14 pillow. The extra half inch on each side allows for the seam.

Next, I centered the bird cutout in the middle of the burlap.

Then I used some white acrylic paint I had and a sponge brush to paint the bird on the material.

brown burlap bird pillow

I wasn’t sure I was liking my bird, but I put the pillow together anyway.

I sewed the right sides together, leaving a big enough space in the seam to slide the pillow form in, then I sewed up the opening.

To be honest, I wasn’t real crazy about the way it turned out.

But she’s kind of growing on me! :)

The more I see the pillow outside on the patio, the more I kind of like her.

So I think I am going to keep her for now!

I found some pillows for my patio table and chairs at Target and Garden Ridge today that I think I like. I was hoping to have my patio finished already, but it is taking me fo-eva since I am now working full time this summer.

But I am getting close!

I am definitely going to visit Kimba’s DIY Day this week! She is hosting a special DIY Day–Outdoor Edition!

If you have an outdoor project that you have completed this summer, like a front porch or a back patio, then link up and join the fun!

I will be checking out all the great ideas!

Have a blessed day.
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Velcro Burlap Bed skirt

March 21, 2010 AT 10:49 pm 62 Comments

March 21, 2010 By cyndi 62 Comments

I am continuing to work on my master bedroom makeover.

I found an entertainment armoire to hide our tv in for $40.oo! It needs a little work and a fresh coat of paint, but I think it will look great when I am finished. :)

A little progress has been made on my bedding. This part can be stressful. I am trying to come up with the colors that I want in my bedroom. I was leaning toward my favorite colors…tan, black, white, and red. But lately, I’ve been wanting to add a little bit of light blue instead of red to my palette.

I went to some fabric stores and found a fabric that I loved. It had some blues and browns in it, and I might make some pillows with it. Not sure.

But I did decide what material to use for my bed skirt.

Brown burlap.

Ya’ll know that I love burlap. And when I was looking at my inspiration fabric, I could picture it with a brown bed skirt. I remembered that Hobby Lobby had some brown burlap on sale for $1.99 a yard. How can you beat that?

I bought four yards of it and brought it home. I tucked it under my mattress to get an idea of what it would look like and I loved it!

So here is what I did to make it.

The burlap comes in a 45 inch width, so I unfolded the material and cut it in half. I will be able to make skirts for two sides of my bed with this.

Using one half of the material, I decided to make my hem on the outer un-cut edge by first ironing the edge over about a half inch.

Then I folded it over again about an inch and pressed it again

Next I sewed a straight stitch down the hem.

Now I have to explain this great idea I had for making a bed skirt.

I wanted to make a skirt that I could just velcro onto my box springs. I have made bed skirts before that are like the kind you buy in the store. The ones that have the material all the way across the box springs that the skirt is attached to.

It was always really hard for me to get the bed skirt to fit “just right”. One side was usually too long, and I would have to use safety pins to keep the skirt in place. Even bed skirts you purchase in stores can drive you nuts. They are always moving around when you put your fitted sheet on, or they will end up sliding over and drooping on one side. I can’t stand that.

So to keep my bed skirt in place, I decided to velcro it to my box springs. I didn’t come up with this idea on my own. My mom was a professional seamstress, and she had told me about this idea. She hadn’t tried it herself, but she said she had seen other professionals do it.

I have always wanted to try it, and my bedroom makeover was the perfect place.

So I bought some industrial strength velcro from Walmart for twenty dollars. I didn’t like paying that much, but it was a lot cheaper than the velcro I almost bought at JoAnn’s Fabrics. It would have been over 40 dollars there!

I got it because it was two inches wide, and I thought that it would make the bed skirt more durable. (You may be able to find it somewhere else for less.)

Unfortunately, I didn’t notice that it had a “sticky” back to it. (I know…it says it right on the box! Duh.) The stickiness actually became a huge pain when I was sewing the material to it.

Now you might think I am crazy, but I hot glued the velcro to my box springs. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t going anywhere. :)

The velcro strip looked something like this when I was done. (I have pushed my mattress back to take this picture.)

The edge of the velcro was 17 inches from the ground so I decided to make the skirt 18 inches long.

The next steps are not easy to describe in a post, but I will try.

The total length of my material from top to bottom was about 22 inches long (after I had already hemmed the bottom). I wanted the skirt to be a finished length of 20 inches…18 inches for the part of the skirt you would see, and 2 inches to sew onto the velcro strip
and tuck under the mattress.

I also created a one inch hem on each side of the skirt.

The next part made me almost lose my sanity!!!

I was going to show you an easy way to pin the material to the velcro strip, but there was no EASY to it! The material kept sticking to the strip when I didn’t want it to. (I’m not going to go into detail of how I literally wrestled that strip of sticky velcro…it’s just too painful to re-live.)

I finally decided to use the “stinky” to my advantage.

I just folded the material over every couple of inches and pressed it to the “sticky”.

It still wasn’t holding together very well, so I ran to my sewing machine and began sewing.

I sewed a straight stitch on the top and bottom of the two inch velcro strip and attached it to the box springs.

Though I wasn’t sure it was all going to come together…

it turned out exactly as I had hoped.

(I still need to iron it in a few spots.)

I ADORE the look of burlap.

I only have pictures of the left side of my bed because I haven’t done the other sides yet. :)

I used a little less than four yards for this side of the bed. I had to cut off about 6 inches of one end because there was a bad place in the burlap. Sometimes that happens.

The other half of this material will be used for the skirt at the end of the bed. I will need to get 4 more yards to do the right side of the bed and will have material left over for pillows if I need it. ;) I will have 8 total yards in the whole bed skirt which will cost me $16.00. So the whole skirt ended up costing me $36.00. I think that’s pretty good! (I already had the other supplies like thread and glue sticks.)

I am hoping to finish the skirt tomorrow, and start painting the armoire.

Update: Here is a picture of my bedskirt in my completed bedroom makeover.

If you have any questions about my bed skirt, please feel free to ask. It’s usually best to email me at

beneathmyheart4(at)gmail(dot)com

And don’t forget about my first linky party! You ALL are invited!

You can read about the details by clicking on the button.

If you would like to help me spread the word about my party, you can add my button to your sidebar or in a post. (You’ll be my BFF in you do!) :)

I am linking this post to a few parties this week:

Make it for Monday at Cottage Instincts

DIY day at A Soft Place to Land

Show and Share at Just a Girl

Blessings!

Traci

I will be announcing the winner of the $50 dollar gift certificate to Leen the Graphic Queen Monday afternoon!

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My first video tutorial

February 15, 2010 AT 6:06 pm 76 Comments

February 15, 2010 By cyndi 76 Comments

I just posted a tutorial on how to make my magnet boards earlier today. I had hoped to post my video, but couldn’t get it to work.

Making this video and trying to post it has definitely been a learning experience!

I tried to upload it 4 or 5 times but nothing worked.

I finally tried to upload a different copy of the video, and it worked! Unfortunately, this video wasn’t the one I wanted to post. I had better music on the other one, but oh well! What do you do?

I hope and pray that you will still keep following me after you watch this. Promise me that you won’t think I’m a weird-o, okay?

Pinky promise?

(You may want to hit pause and let the video fully load before playing.)

Nervously awaiting your approval…

Traci

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Magnet Board Tutorial

February 15, 2010 AT 3:28 pm 33 Comments

February 15, 2010 By cyndi 33 Comments

(Updated: If you would like to see the video tutorial of this same project, click HERE.)

Hello, ladies!

I am a little disappointed about my post today. I worked all day Saturday on creating a video to show you how to make my Ballard Designs inspired magnet board. Then I spent several hours yesterday and this morning trying to upload it, and I couldn’t get it to work! UGH!

I had a lot of fun making the video and was excited to share it with you. However, it’s not going to happen today. If for some reason, I figure out how to make it work, I might post it later.

Here is my inspiration:

I love these magnet boards from Ballard Designs. But they are $39 a piece! I immediately said, “I can make that!” And for a lot less!

So I found a 12×18 sheet of aluminum at Lowe’s for $4.66.

It is a very thin piece of metal, so I decided to “thicken” it up a bit by adding cork board to the back. I had found these squares of cork at Goodwill for 50 cents each. They are about a centimeter thick, and can be purchased at most craft stores, maybe even at Walmart.

Lowe’s had two types of 12×18 sheets of metal. One was more expensive than the one I purchased, so I took a picture of the exact one you want to buy…

Then I cut the cork board into two inch wide strips and hot glued it down the sides of the magnet board. You could cover the entire back of the board with cork, but I was trying to save the cork board I had for other projects.

It will look like this when you are finished gluing the cork down…

Lay the board on the material you want to use. I am using leftover drop cloth material for this one.

Fold the material over the edges and hot glue in down.

Fold over the corners and hot glue them down. Don’t worry if they do not lay down perfectly, it’s on the back and no one will ever see it! :)

Add some ribbon by hot gluing it down in the middle and cutting the ends.

Hot glue your ribbon to the back of the board…

You can leave the back like this, or you can cover the back with material. I cover the back with material for the ones I sell in my Etsy shop because it gives more of a finished look.

To make some custom magnets, I picked up this package of “Spare parts” at Hobby Lobby for half off. ($2.50) The round magnets were two dollars, I think. Then I just hot glued the “spare parts” onto my magnets, and that was it!

They are so cute on my burlap magnet board.

FYI: If you cover your metal board with burlap, be sure to spray paint the front of the metal with white or off white paint. This keeps the metal from “shinning” through the burlap. (I know this from experience.) :)

Here is another board I made for my Etsy shop. I’ve been dying to make one with some pink on it. I think these would be so cute in a little girl’s room. I chose a brown material with pink polk-a-dots and a pink ribbon. (The back is covered in the same material.)

That’s it! These are super easy to do, and I know all you crafty ladies out there could make some fabulous ones. You can use any color of material and ribbon to match your own home decor.

Let me know if you try this!

And if you don’t want to make it yourself, I can make it for you.

They are for sale in my Etsy shop. You can visit it by clicking on the button in my side bar.

If you have any questions, just let me know!

I am sharing this project at

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Make it for Monday at Cottage Instincts

Make your Monday at Twice Remembered

Get Your Craft On at Today’s Creative Blog

DIY day at A Soft Place to Land

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Blessings!

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Burlap Lamp Shades for the Boys’ Room

January 17, 2010 AT 11:07 pm 52 Comments

January 17, 2010 By traci 52 Comments

I am so very excited about how this project turned out!

It’s exactly what I had envisioned in my head.

I bought some lamp shades from Target for the boys’ room a couple of years ago. They weren’t exactly what I was looking for, but they were the right size and shape, (and price).

They were covered with a tan paper that began to bubble. I tried to ignore it, but it was driving me crazy.

I began to think about how I could recover them…maybe with new material? blue? red? khaki?

And then it hit me….BURLAP, BABY!

If you don’t know about my obsession with burlap, just click on “burlap projects” in my side bar, and you’ll get a good idea.

I already had some leftover burlap, so I quickly got to work.

First I pulled the navy blue trim off of the lamp shade. That was super easy.

Then I took my burlap and wrapped it around the shade.

I covered each side of the shade with fabric glue and a sponge brush and pressed the burlap to the shade.

Then I let it dry.

I tucked the edge of the material under and secured it with my glue gun.

Press the seam down and it will lay nice and flat. Just be careful because the glue can seep through the holes of the burlap! Trust me…I know!

Then I trimmed the burlap around all of the edges with my scissors.

Next, I got out my trusty glue gun and glued the ribbon back on.

They were already looking sooooo good to me!

But it needed something else.

Sooooo.

I bought some stencils at Michael’s (with a coupon) for 4 bucks. Then I got out my sponge brush and the same paint that I used to paint the boys’ collector’s shelves. (Colonial Red)

The boys picked out a number that they wanted stenciled on their lamp shade, and I got to work.

I taped the stencil in place and applied the paint with my sponge brush.

Then I used a smaller paint brush to go over the edges of the numbers to make them more even.

They are perfect! To me, at least.

The boys are thrilled! They love having those lamps beside their beds to read at night.

If you want to learn how to make a collector’s shelf similar to the ones in the boys’ room, click HERE.

Well, that’s it! It took me about 30 minutes to complete this project. It was well worth the time and $4.00 I spent on it. Don’t you agree?

Be sure to stop by on Tuesday for another FABULOUS giveaway! I’m so excited to share it with you!

I am linking this project to all of my favorite parties….

Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Make it for Monday at Cottage Instincts

Make your Monday at Twice Remembered

Get Your Craft On at Today’s Creative Blog

DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Designs

Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Have a blessed day!

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Another Fun Tile Creation!

December 27, 2009 AT 11:22 pm 36 Comments

December 27, 2009 By cyndi 36 Comments

Hello, all!

I wanted to share with you a quick little something I made that I absolutely love.

It’s another cute little tile!

I showed you how to make coasters from tiles a while back ago.

You can read about those HERE.

Well, I saw on another blog how to make coasters with tiles using rubber stamps instead of decoupage.

It looked so simple that I went to Lowe’s and bought some more tiles. And since I didn’t need any more coasters, I decided to make something else.

I used a black StazOn ink pad that I got half off at Hobby Lobby and a stamp that I have had for years in a closet. The StazOn ink is permanent and will not smear or come off . (Great for coasters.)

I stamped it in the middle of the tile and hot glued a little gingham bow to the top.

This little tile would be cute anywhere! You could hang it on a wall or sit in on a desk or dresser.

I decided to add something to the back so it could be hung on the wall.

I got my favorite material, burlap, and cut a square piece a little smaller than the tile.

I hot glued the burlap square to the back of the tile.

Then I used some jute string to make a “hanger” on the back. I hot glued the string in place.

To give it more of a “finished” look, I used some little decorative buttons I had left over from another project.

I hot glued the buttons over the ends of the jute string.

And now it is ready to hang!

But for now, I have enjoyed displaying it on my buffet table with my Christmas decorations.

I love black and white gingham. And this little tile matches my GW topiaries with gingham bows (that I added) in my hutch.

This project was so easy to do, and I am brainstorming some more little projects with tiles. I would like to use some bigger tiles next time. Wouldn’t they be cute monogrammed? Hmmm….

I am linking this post to all of my favorite parties throughout the week. If you need some inspiration, just check these out….

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Get Your Craft On at Today’s Creative Blog (Tuesday)

DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land (Tuesday)

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design (Wednesday), and<
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Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage.

Have a blessed day,

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My Burlap Beauty

November 30, 2009 AT 12:13 am 51 Comments

November 30, 2009 By cyndi 51 Comments

(I posted this as a guest blogger over at Shanty 2 Chic a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to share it with you again in case you missed it!)

Check this out!

I got this chair at Goodwill for $6.50. I know “she” looks a little rough, but all she needed was a second chance.

So here’s what I did:
First of all, I decided to paint the chair black. I used Valspar spray paint in satin from Lowe’s.
Then I used a fine grit sandpaper to sand down the edges a bit.
As you can tell by the picture below, I left the chair in my garage too long without supervision.
One of my boys thought it would be fun to tear the material off the chair, thus the result…

Oh my, she’s looking really bad now!
But I didn’t let that stop me. I still had my vision…
She just needed a little more cushion, so I used my staple gun to apply some extra batting to the seat and back of the chair.

Now she was ready to cover with my material.
Of course, I chose burlap. My current obsession!
I started with the seat, using my staple gun to secure the burlap.

I cut the fabric around the arms of the chair, folded it under, and then stapled it down. (This part was not easy, and it did not turn out perfectly, but it still looks good to me!)

When I saw the extra burlap hanging below the staples, it looked like a cute little ruffled skirt. That’s when I decided that I wanted to add a skirt to the chair. (The above pictures were taken at night in my garage, so the burlap looks darker.)
Next, I covered the back of the chair using the same process as I did on the seat.

Then I stapled and trimmed the burlap on the back of the chair.

Next, I stapled on a piece of burlap to cover the back of the chair.

Now for the skirt…
I placed the cording in the middle of the burlap, folded the material over, and sewed it up using my zipper foot. Then I trimmed the excess material.

Notice I didn’t even use pins when I sewed. I’m dangerous like that!

I made a long piece of burlap that measured 5 inches wide and sewed a small hem. Then I pinned some ruffles in the material. I didn’t even measure them the same length apart. I just eyeballed it. That’s how I roll.

I attached the cording to the skirt, and sewed them together.

I made some double cording and hot glued it over the staples on the back. I got that idea from an upholstery book. (I will be explaining how to make the double cording in a future post on my blog.)

Then I attached the skirt with my staple gun.

I bought this chair for $6.50.
I bought about 4 yards of burlap from Hobby Lobby when it was on sale for $1.99 a yard. That’s $8.00, and I have some left over.
I already had the black spray paint, cording, and staples. So this whole transformation cost me about $15.00!
I’m lovi
ng that!
Every lady needs some cute accessories, so I made her a little pillow.
This picture was taken in our master bedroom, but I made the chair to go in our guest house.