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Friday Pretties: New furniture for (almost) free!




Chair before


Chair after


Two amazing DIY projects on a budget
 i found on "The art of doing stuff", a blog by this amazing and crafty lady Karen, who is really wort a visit!  She transformed an abandoned chair she found by the side of the road into this strikingly luxurious dream of a chair, and a simple piece of tree-trunk into a stylish side-table that looks like it was bought in an expensive design-store. 

For the chair, she simply covered it up with a Mongolian Lamb throw - no special skills needed for that one, it's finished in a minute, YAY!  For the table - hmmm, looks like a girl must be a bit more patient here, but it sounds perfectly doable as well. Look at the instruction here.

Boy, i miss going to the fleemarket and look for ragged chairs! What are your plans for the weekend?

More Friday Pretties to visit at Joyce's here! 

Friday Pretties: Collage chair - with tutorial





From old to new!
A little crafty project i tried out myself after having posted about it some time ago. A plain chair - we bought some of them in a second-hand store - was covered in pretty bits and pieces from old "Country Living" magazines i had stored up for ages. I love collages - and although you need a lot of sticky glue to make this, it's worth the effort!

This is the chair before

If you feel inclined to try this for yourself, the steps are:
1. Sandpaper the chair
2. Prepare glue and collage bits from pretty papers and magazines
3. Glue paper on to chair quickly - let your intuition guide you!
4. Let it dry, and then varnish and dry again - best overnight.
Finito!

See? It's easy! Have a fab weekend everyone and see more prettieness  here! 

Fotos: Moi (MVS)