Here is her dining room now, with the finished parson chair covers, new modern light fixture and bamboo shades replaced her previous swag window treatments.

She had been holding onto the damask fabric for a few years and found the blue chenille textured menswear looking fabric on clearance at Joanns. It was amazingly soft!

I love the eclectic look of all the fabrics, and the boldness of the damask print. In this setting the damask has a different vibe than it normally does…Funky and bold!

She has had her table for 20 years! She said she’s painted it with every trend including the crackle paint….love that it’s black and the chair legs are brown wood. I love mixing woods, metals, and different finishes. I don’t like when things are super matchy…you know bed-in-a-bag doesn’t work for me. I don’t want my comforter to match my shams,curtains, bedskirt, and lamp shades.

I loved the texture of the blue fabric…I could pet it for hours!

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This client was in the middle of remodeling and trying to finish by Christmas. She had me slipcover the Host and Hostess chairs (chairs at the head of the table) in a gray menswear type fabric. First of all I love gray and I love menswear! She decided to keep the red parson chair slipcovers for Christmas.

I just finished the new covers for the red chairs today and will be taking them back next week…..I am so excited to take them back and see it all put together. She’s doing an eclectic menswear type theme. Some of the parsons are going to be black/cream damask and some of them are going to be this awesome navy blue chenille design fabric. So watch next week for some more pics with her new parson slipcovers.

Hostess chair before…great lines and beautiful legs. She bought the chairs from DownEast Home.  I believe they are from Pottery Barn.

After in the gray menswear fabric.

I did a band around the front with piping along the top edge.

This fabric was great, it shaped really well to all the curves of this chair.

Side view.

Another side view.

The whole room….I was able to miss all the construction in this shot, her whole kitchen was being worked on. She’s planning on changing out the valances for the new menswear look, once I get her other chairs back.

I love the look with the host and hostess chairs being a different fabric.

Here is my little guy (our little elf) on Christmas Day. He put this old costume on a few days before Christmas and was dancing around in it….Heber’s mom made this clown outfit for Halloween when Heber was about a year old…so it’s 37 yrs. old!  A bit snug on a 7 yr. old…..hahahaha.  Anyhow we had him put it on and carry in the gifts to Heber’s family. We thought it was hilllarious!

Maui was great! The boys loved going there for their first time…we snorkeled, whale watched, went to a Luau, surf lessons, and went on a blue water rafting tour.

Here are my two oldest boys heading out to their surf lesson.

We rented snorekling gear for the week for all the boys….they loved it! By the end of the week, the older two were snorkeling out in the ocean without their noodles. They loved seeing all the fish and turtles.

My client’s wingback chair…great shape, but the fabric wasn’t working so well for her. The original cushion was 3″ thick (typical for older chairs) and flat and hard looking. She had seen the down envelope cushion I had done on Jenn’s chairs, and wanted to do the same for hers.

Before of the arm….not the typical wingback arm. I kind of liked it. I decided to run piping down the outside wing around the front of the curve and back into the inside wing.

So my piping went around one arm up and over the wing across the upper back and then down the other wing and around the front of the other arm.

Then I ran the vertical piping on the front of the arm to connect in the inside and outside arm. My client wanted the legs to show as much as possible, but still wanted a skirt. I self lined the skirt. The skirt was 8″ tall… I cut strips 17″ tall and folded them in half and ironed the fold (8″+8″+.5″+.5″) (.5″ is seam allowance).

Check out the new down cushion!!! I ordered a down envelope cushion with 5″ boxing and reused the existing cushion’s 3″ foam.

Down envelope cushions have a zipper in the back and you slide in your foam (usually 2″ less in thickness than your finished box height). That way you have a down cushion with a foam core.

Another After

Here you can see the piping on the top of the arm….ending in the inside wing tuck-in. I did do a small seam attatching the inside wing to the top of the arm.

Outside wing.

Side note—- here was our darling Christmas tree at the cabin. The boys had a great time decorating it. My running partner, Camille made me these awesome homemade ornaments out of old books. Notice the cinder block stand and the trunk is wrapped in a towel to help it to stand up.

This tree reminds me of a tree one year when I was probably in 5th grade. One day while driving to church my dad and brothers saw a HUGE (6-7 ft tall) tumbleweed next to the road. My dad is frugal like me and joked that we should take it home as our christmas tree. 3 hours later we were driving home from church and the tumbleweed was still “available”. They threw it on top of the car and drove it home.

My mom got some white snow flocking spray and sprayed the whole tumble weed white and shaped it a little bit at the top. It was great all the ornaments without strings would just stick to the tree. All six of us kids still talk about that tree to this day…good memories and good times.