Paint & Paper Chair Makeover

 my brother gave me this second hand office chair more than twenty years ago. i am not sure how old it is. it's still going strong, i use it every day at my messy desk.
 when he gave it to me it had a grey vinyl seat & brown varnished back & legs. i gave it a makeover many years ago, but it needed another.
 above is how it looks now.......much bluer,  lighter & summery.
 below:  the back of the chair before i removed the old orange  suede seat covering, then some sanding, a few coats of paint, used wrapping paper from my grandson, an image from a newspaper & a decoupage paper image of a mermaid painting was all it needed for a new look.

 the back in progress....

 & the front......i cut some fish from the wrapping paper & glued them over the sides of the mermaid image.

 old style image on the back......& older still on the front.

 i stitched a new seat cover from an  old pair of  denim jeans courtesy of Simonne, & the blue spots on this piece of new fabric matched the blue of the denim & the fish paper.

i am always amazed at how paint & (paper) can make such a difference.
(raylee).

Red Roses - Collage & Acrylic on Canvas

 starting at the end...... red roses painted with acrylic & a palette knife over old painted book pages......& the beginning.........painted book pages glued onto  a 24"x24" canvas with gel medium, ( when i paint with acrylic paint i like to wipe the excess paint from my brush onto old book pages or note books to use in  future collage paintings).....

....some paint  & splatter & drip layers .......

 the original inspiration......red  roses in a glass coffee jar......

 adding acrylic with a palette knife, leaving bits of the first layer of the book page images showing through the paint....

.....a lot of trial & error with the composition of the roses & getting a shape to resemble a rose without too much detail.

(raylee).

More scraps and bits

I have been building a scrap book...

this "notebook" magazine I kept because it helped inspire us to start this blog...

it's a solid magazine, holding together well...

and the cover was ripped off...

 so I'm now going through all those scraps of paper...

that I've collected over the years...

pleasing images or ideas and instructions for projects...

and gluing them all into one place...

the interesting stories are kept...

gluing only happens on the advertisements...

 then I sorted this old wooden box...

it held a jumble of sewing bits...

ribbons, zips, needles, etc...

the 3 litre milk bottles fitted just nicely...

so I trimmed them to fit inside...

ta da...no more tangled mess...