Come on over, pull up a chair.

I finally have a new finished project to show off!

A couple of months ago I found this cool, old wooden chair at one of the flea markets here in Albuquerque.  For only $20, I couldn't pass it up.

The chair had been stripped and was really dried out when I bought it, and a few of the joints were loose and wobbly.  I sanded the whole thing down really well, cleaned it up, and glued everything in place.  I debated painting it a fun color, but decided that I should take advantage of the clean wood and stain it instead.  It took a couple of coats, but the stain turned out really nicely.

The freshly-stained chair sat by our front door for a few weeks until I finally found some fabric to use for the seat.  It took multiple different trips of wandering through the fabric stores, but this weekend I found some fabric that I really like and we were in business.  Josh helped me cut out wood for the seat, and then Mom helped me cover the seat.  I'm pretty inept when it comes to fabric.

We used some basic quilt stuffing to pad it, and then used some stretchy dark fabric on the seat so that a) we could stretch the padding tighter onto the seat, and b) there would be a darker color behind the light print of the fabric.  Then we stapled the hell out of it.  A little Scotchguard for protection and a little oil on the wood and we're good to go!

Viola!  My first finished project in quite some time.  This one even gets enthusiastic approval from Josh, probably owing to the orange colors.  Now if only I could just close on a damn house, I'd have somewhere to put all of this stuff...