Happy 5 months Baby C

Today, Kelly and Carter came over for lunch, and then I babysat while Kel went to the dermatologist for a check up.

Baby C and I had fun playing and then took a nap rocking in our chair.

We've been doing a photo shoot on Carter's monthly birthdays and today was his 5 month! Where has the time gone?!

Have you noticed his hands are almost always in his mouth? He cut his first tooth this past week, just before his 5 month birthday.

faces of a 5 month old

baby modeling is exhausting!

happy 5 month b'day Baby C!

closing Pandora's box...

or should I simply say... 10 days later...

The chair is finished! Hooray!

I added this little piece of cording

But before I celebrate too much, I do still have the matching chair to rehab. For all that will involve see the "before" here and here. I started in on the 2nd one today with hubby's help. He's taking the staples out and he's going to sand it for me. Thank you! Then I get to do the 4 coats of paint and the re-upholstery.

It was all worth it... because I took an unused, dirty, old chair and turned it into a "Cinderella" chair. All new again and ready for GradGirl's condo. I am quite pleased!

And... as an added bonus! I found this adorable chair while at the Flea Market the other day and reupholstered the seat cushion to match. It had already been white washed and I love that!
I love that I didn't have to paint it too! ;-)

everything old is new again!

Flea finds

I love to walk around and browse our local flea market, The Queen of Hearts, every now and then. You never know what you'll find at a Flea and there are so many interesting things to see.

So many of the vendors seem to over value their own junk "antiques", something has to be the right price for me to buy. Walking down the aisles I came upon this:

rusty and iron and right up my alleyWe never seem to light our fireplace anymore. Once they deregulated gas in Georgia the price went sky high and when we'd burn the gas logs I'd just see $$$'s going up the flue. One season, I even had my husband take the gas logs out and we burned real wood. It had to be the perfect weather though, or we'd smell the wood burning throughout the house. We set off the smoke alarm one too many times, so... we put the gas logs back in.
I saw this as an alternative. A fireside glow for the cost of a few candles. Candles that are half off at Hobby Lobby this week.
I like it, it's a bit different from the others I've seen. Can't wait to light it!
But maybe I'll wait until it drops below 90 degrees. ;-)

chair rehab progress

Here's the chair frame from my last post, remember... the upholstery demolition?

Well... not too much progress this weekend as we played more than we worked. GradGirl was home for a visit with her new Pup Greyson. He's a MinPin-Chihuahua mix and only about 4.5 lbs at the moment.

I did start in on sanding the chair and giving it 2 coats of paint so far. I can see another 2 coats are needed! We also cut a piece of MDF for the seat base with our trusty jig saw. This is instead of the rope and springs.

And... I cut a piece of foam for the seat cushion, very tricky with a scissor since I don't have one of those old electric meat carving knives.Here's the color, Martha Stewart "persimmon red", with the fabric just to get the picture, because we all need our final inspiration to work on, right?!

Today I will continue, I hope to anyway. I love the fabric with the coral paint color, so fun! What do you think?

Have you ever opened Pandora's box?

I just did...

This chair is over 100 years old, a real antique! It was Great Grandma Edith's, and we actually have 2 of them. Grad Girl has the other one at her condo. It's in much better shape than this one, having been brought out of storage and recovered already years ago. The plan is to recover them both to match her new decor.

So dirty from being in the attic when they re-roofed the house 2 years ago.

It has such pretty carved detail doesn't it?!

So today I started the demolition...
who knew this chair had previously been recovered 3 times. I guess that's not bad for 100 years. Funny though, the upper fabric was dirty but not water stained like the bottom two fabrics.

The tacks were all rusty which had me thinking... hmm, when was my last tetanus shot?

That's just the beginning, but there were definitely enough rusty tacks for 3 layers of fabric.

Underneath the 3 layers was a layer of cotton batting , a layer of horse hair and a layer of rotted burlap that turned to dust when you touched it. Yuck! Oh, and of course the comfy springs tied with rotted rope.

I had gone this far so I figured I would just go all the way and strip it down completely to the wooden frame.

So... now I have a chair frame. I guess I'll have to build a seat before I can recover it, right?! Where's the Jig saw?

We plan to repaint the chairs a shade of coral, Martha Stewart's " Persimmon red", and then reupholster them in this fun fabric:

Then both chairs will match. Hopefully, as far as I can remember, Grad Girls chair is not in as bad of shape as this one and we can actually just paint it and recover it. I hope. Fingers crossed.

They should look great in her dining room and add an additional pop of color!

I'll be sure to post the "after" when we're done... which may not be as soon as I originally had planned!

alone time with Baby C

Now that Carter is 4 months old he's able to go longer between "meals" and that gives him and his Momma a bit more freedom. Occasionally, it's just he and I, while Kelly is off at an appointment or a tennis match.
We both love our playtime together!

He is teething and loves having something to chew on, fingers are the best!

Sometimes he even finds his thumb.

We just got a new toy for him to enjoy at Poppy and Hatties house...
a walker. Safe here on the one level with no stairs.

He's a bit short for it at the moment, even on the lowest setting.
But watch out Puppies, soon he'll be chasing you all over the house!

After all that playtime, this little guy needs a rest. He lets me know when he's tired, so we put the toys away and snuggle with his blanket.

He loves rockin' in our cozy chair!

Shhh.... the baby's sleeping!

personnal best and Gal Pal fun!

It's been H&H here in Hotlanta, but not hot enough to keep us off the course. Friday afternoon, hubby and I hit the links after my doctors appointment. I don't know why, maybe we both needed to release some tension, but we both played really well. He shot a 35, a PB for him for 9 holes, and I a 48. My PB for 9 is a 47 shot last April. He continued to shoot a record round of 75! I on the other hand succumbed to the heat of the afternoon and ended up with a 103 for 18. How can I golf my best when I'd go down to eye a putt and come up dizzy from the heat?! I was drinking water and iced tea like a fish and even wearing a cold wet towel on my neck between shots! We finished just in the nick of time as the skies let loose after putting out on 18.

Hubby thanks you for waiting Golf Gods!!!

We hurried home to shower and make myself beautiful to get back in time for Member Appreciation night. It was held inside b/c of the storms but that didn't stop the fun!

The Gal Pals have a good time no matter the venue!

We celebrated G's birthday,
and were the last 4 couples to leave for the night.

love my gal pals!