Having Jesse home tends to make me more accountable. I can't lay around and eat bonbons all day with her watching. So I've been working on a project. When I took the upholstery class this spring, my plan was to re-cover three chairs that I have had for years. These three chairs came from the old Young's Ranch in Red River. They are funky. Who know how many times they have been covered and re-covered. When I got them from Young's, they were a coral Naugahyde - from the Naugabeast. I had them covered in Southwestern style fabric - they were chic! That has been close to 20 years ago, but they are still classy chairs. As simple as they are, surely they would not be hard to cover. After my very informative upholstery class, I have now started covering the chairs. Today I finished the first chair. You can see in the photo that one chair has arms and one does not. The third chair does not have arms - two with and one without. Funky! I will do the armed chair in a different material. I'm pretty happy with the way the chair turned out. Although, I don't think this upholstery thang is for me, but I will finish this project. Toby asked me why I chose to put the stripes going sideways. Really? Did he think they should go the longways? When my eyebrow went up questioning his style, he didn't say much. Then he reminded me of the M*A*S*H episode where Trapper had a special pinstriped suit made, but the pinstripes went the wrong way - pretty funny.I just want to say that I hate the new blogger. Putting photos where I want them on the blog is beyond me.
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Speaking of the aggravating Blogger. I wrote a comment but I was using Firefox and for some reason, I cannot comment on your type of comment box on my iMac. I have to switch to Safari to comment here.
I can post photos, though. I just put the cursor where I want the picture and select the photo. I usually center them, so haven't had a problem. Once in a while on Gene's macbook pro the photos go to the top of the post and he has to remove them and put the cursor again and they usually take the second time.
Your chair upholstery job is super, nicely done! They will be so chic in your new room. Very cool.
Say hey to Jesse and Toby.
Jo, so far, putting the photo where the cursor is has not worked for me, but I will keep trying. Before blogger changed, I could drag my photos anywhere I wanted, but not now.
We are going to a baseball game next week with the GGs. We will miss you and Gene.
Blogger acts VERY weird with photo placement from time to time, especially when you're posting multiple photos in a post. I think I had four or five pics for my "perfume" post and Blogger simply would NOT put the last one where I wanted it, always defaulting to the top of the post. I finally just quit trying, exited the "compose" window, went to the "edit posts" tab, and re-opened the perfume post, essentially starting over. It worked then.
I like the stripes on the "new" chair. **I** wouldn't have said "why horizontal." Nope, not ME! ;-)
The chair looks awesome! You're so neat and professional with your work projects, Miss Lou. I'm kind of a neat freak in the beginning, but then I end up rushing to get finished. My work tells on me, too.
You sided with Toby on the painting of Jes. You're still in the doghouse, but liking my stripes gets you a few points.
Don't look too close at the chair - it does have a few secrets.
I don't like the new blogger either. It seems that they think that the more complicated things are, the better. As for photos, I usually cut and paste the HTML to get them where I want them.
Love the chair.
I can reply to comments on my iPad, but not the desktop -- I can only write another comment. It must be a Safari thing -- the desktop usually runs on IE.
Love the Bargello-patterned fabric, and the fun chairs! You are indeed a woman of many talents!!
Becky, I'll try that again, but it didn't seem to work the first time.
Moogie, my friend Jo, who commented up above, seems to have lots of the same issues with commenting. I have my new Kindle Fire, but have not tried blogging from it with the new blogger.
Upholstery is not rocket science - it is fun to see a come back to life.
Love them. They really look great. If you picked out that fabric 20 years ago, kudos to you , because it is definitely something that will last into the years.
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