Monday, August 22, 2011

before and after - dining room chairs

About 4 1/2 years ago, my mother-in-law gave us these wonderful dining room chairs.  At the time she recovered them with a lovely cream material.  However, now they are starting to show the passage of time, so I thought ... its time for a lil makeover :)



This time I tried my hand at mixing patterns.  HGTV has a nice little post on mixing patterns here.  

The three patterns I picked:


And of course -- the after.


I even have some left over material for another project :)

Friday, August 5, 2011

Congrats Abby and Ian

the new addition to the family .... my nephew is such a cutie













Monday, August 1, 2011

our grand finale

It has been awhile since I have posted on our trip to Hawaii.  And I am kind of going out of order, but what the heck.  Here are the pictures from our last night in Hawaii having dinner at Azure.