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You can see where someone glued and stapled a cloth curtain around the stained (original) part. At one point I think the top was painted white.
When the arms are opened they expose 4 drawers with plenty of space. It's unique and the gas attendant who filled the trunk tank on the day this sat in the bed knew I was going to use it for sewing.
I call these ice cream chairs, they are much like bistro chairs except I thought the side mounts made them much like the little seats that dawned every soda fountain in the 50's. What do I know? I like them because they are wrought iron and cute!~
My husband and I had a slight misunderstanding, he assumed when he said "he'd like them painted green", that I understood ALL the outdoor furniture was going to be ballpark green. That included the redwood set and the wicker set. O.K......, no. But these can be green and I won't protest to much....and hey, those white plastic chairs? They would look great green!
On went the foam and fabric, abracadabra.....cute little seats. At first we thought these would go on the small balcony outside my bedroom but I think they'd look wonderful out here on the deck.
Even the backs are covered with the same fabric.
Today's post is about two new shelves I'm adding to the master bath. Well, they will be new-like when I'm done because each one has age and wear and rust on them. That never stopped me though, with the right tools they will be helped.
My husband did most all of the prep work, he used a drill with some sort of wire brush attachment. I was impressed! It cut sanding time down to minutes! And the shelf down to metal (or tin, or iron). We primed them and used flat black with a clear sealer. 
I really need this rod shelf in the bathroom for face cloths and towels although I wished the shelf was a tad small so it would fit between the mirrors, it works.
This is one of my upholstering projects, it will be my second time restoring it. I have no idea of the age because it was another Goodwill find, I really wasn't looking for a chair at the time because I had no room for it, but the poor guy that was in charge of keeping the floor in the store organized was tired of moving it. Maybe as a joke he offered it to us (while lifting it again), for $1.99 and we foolishly took him up on the offer. I recovered it with this lovely pinkish rose fabric and placed it in the office for my employees to sit on when they arrive for their workload. Big mistake. Heating oil service technicians don't always stay clear from soot and over time the arms and the left wing became too stained, too quickly. I have another pink ribbon/rose fabric picked especially for to new cover on this chair.
I love these pillows, I made them all except the satin one, my mother in law made that one for a Christmas present. The little black one I crocheted about 20 years ago, it was a first attempt at the pineapple pattern. I goofed it, the pattern is supposed to lay flat but instead mine curled like a hat. So the plan changed and it became this adornment for the black velvet. At the time I was so proud how vintage it appears, today it is vintage! I also had to pry it from Madame, I didn't realize she had it until I was mentioning it's location to my hubby.
I made the brother and sister dolls too, they sat in the dining room until they lost their spot to another doll! Moving my collection around is what I do. C&G Design
I love this little Pixie machine, it's made by Singer and it's adorable! It also has a automatic stitching in the slow speed or the fast, in addition to using the foot petal.
But, check out this desk, one would figure that by looking at it Madame would want it painted, nope...she wants to keep it this color.
Can you see her walls are purple? I thought the green would be too much but like her Dad, she likes this color.
Oh, I'll tolerate it for awhile then I'll strip it and stain it. C&G Design
It took me all day as I had to reposition pleats every two inches as the machine would shift the fabric to a smooth surface, by the time I finished, I felt beat up!
Did I mention my lovely blue fabric is wool? Yep, a big, ole' whooping purchase at Goodwill for 9.99 and there must of been 35 yards at 65'' inches wide, an amazing buy for a stitcher!
The arms were pretty easy as I knew they would be, this is a comfortable couch as Madame said she would sleep on it. Yep, I've done that many times after 2 c-sections, a couch comes in handy over a waterbed where effort is needed to ''rise and shine.''
Special pillows and a coffee table. Drats, Madame set the bottle of orange glow for hardwood floors down on the side of the table! Oh. Well. C&G Design.
The reason why I want this bad piece of furniture is because it is seven and a half feet long, I challenge anyone to find a couch of that size because I have not been able. The reason why the frame has lasted through, 3 moves, a 65 lbs dog and two kids that thought it was neat to launch themselves off the arms onto the cushions, is because it's hardwood. They don't make them like they use to.
I'm off to shampoo the seat before traveling further! C&G Design
He is about 22'' tall and has a set of beautiful bright blue sleep eyes, with the lashes all intact. This is how I found him recovering from a few years in storage. I had to make a minor repair to his missing pinkie. 
This is what I did, I used a rubber mold on the good pinkie, then filled that spot with plaster, inserting a q-tip base in it,I needed to have something to attach both body parts with. I wish I had taken before pictures but being carried away with everything, I did not.
This toddler has always been planned for Madame's restored (by me) high chair that will be in the dining room. Why? I have no clue, just something compels me to hold onto it. 
It's another thing to get out of storage, sooner or later I'll be at the end. C&G Design.
It is really beautiful, it is made with silk yarn that has a knotted texture. Punch hooking is done with a shuttle like tool that does what the title states, it punches the thread and that's all. I don't have a embroidery punch hook, I have a rug punch hook, I don't think that will work in this application. What to do when I got my portrait home and discovered it wasn't finished?
Geeish, I must of been to excited about my new found treasure to notice the shrub was undone. Why go so far and not finish? The best I could do was french knots and the outline stitch for the snow on the branches.
It works. I know this post can't really message how fragile this photo is.....just look at the back of this punch hook and see the spots that aren't punched! I had to be so careful as to not pull any stitch!
Everyone loves it, it is nice. I framed it in another thrift shop special. An old plaster frame with missing decorative accents, sprayed in a brown stain, padded with batting and the portrait placed so the flaw of a water stain won't show (it was one the bottom, really bad!)
These little beauties were together, folded one by one. I think they are part of a curtain as some sides were already hemmed and others weren't. Well my idea was a simple one, get a compatible fabric, something like terrycloth, and stitch the decorative panel to one side of a equal square! Wa la! Instant towel.
Hubby and I are very picky about a few things, towels and facecloths being on top of the list. We have held off for 10 months in getting something nice for our downstairs bathroom, my idea, it fit perfectly. I managed to find a durable thick flannel that didn't seem to require hemming. It is absorbent, soft, and best of all....white. I have four Angel panels and 4 quarters of fabric, just enough. Oh yes! Four matching washcloths.
I'm calling it custom. C & G Design.
Wrought iron is no longer made commercially due in part because of the process it goes through. My understanding of it is, wrought iron needs the correct amount of carbon and oxygen to have the strength it needs to stand up for beds, handrails, shelving, etc. I'm not clear about there being too many fine Forgeries around anymore, some iron smiths left today, even horseshoes are manufactured.
There are many processes of making wrought iron through the centuries but I've chose to talk about the two most popular ones.
Out of all the steel and iron in the world, wrought iron has the least carbon, manganese, sulfur, phosphorus, and silicon. Wrought iron becomes soft and is forged easily when placed in red heat.
I don't really have a taste for art deco but I must admit, there is something to it. I can not see myself with sleek pipes for furnishings and or....anymore abstract pictures on the wall. I'll stick with these.
They are small. C & G Design.
It has a drop in bobbin and definitely, it needs to be threaded the right way. Everything works and works well, and it came withe the button attachment.
Many extra thread holds, and a little confusing about how to wind the bobbin.....hubby had to tell me how.
My sewing machine has a serial number, is a Singer in a free arm table. I researched the number on the Internet, my machine dates to 1957 and was someones prize, obvious by the way it was taken care of.
I suspect I'll do the same. C & G Design.
