new dining chairs

One of my first posts on this blog was upholstering some folding chairs for our dining table.  I love those chairs.  But they aren't very stable.  Especially for a 2.5 year old who likes to climb on them.

Luckily I inherited some old family chairs.  I mean old, early 1900s chairs.  My parents had the frames repaired for my birthday, so I just had to do the fun upholstery part!

I don't have a good before picture of the chairs, I wish I did because they have come a long way!  But here are four of the needlepoint cushions that were on them.  Can you even image how long those took to make??

And a picture montage of the upholstery, I wish I had some cool 80s montage music to go along with them.

Finished product!

I used some Heather Ross fabric, I love how sweet and vintage looking her designs are.

I have dining chairs!

teeny tiny books and train rides

We took a long train ride trip with Max and his cousins.  Along with lots of snacks, we packed lots of travel activities for them.  It was the perfect excuse to make these cute teeny tiny books I saw on Cakies.

Max kept saying Mo Choo Choo!

But did not like the el as much...

bunnies, blocks and banana bread

Happy Easter!

I made some bunny ears for my little bunny.  Really, he hated them, but I got a couple good shots.  

And he forgot about them while we made banana bread.  

John had to work on Easter and we are getting together with my family to celebrate later this week, so it was just me and Max.  I only made him one present (and we made the sweet banana bread together).  I made a fabric block puzzle.  I saw it here on Pinterest.  Wow, did her's turn out cute!  Mine...not so much.

Each side is a different puzzle, just putting together the pattern.  First of all I used corn starch instead of the Mod Podge because I'm super paranoid about the fumes during pregnancy.  So the fabric didn't stick as well.

But the kicker is that most of the puzzles don't even match up!  I have no idea what happened.  But I couldn't even put together most of the patterns.  I was almost going to use family pictures instead of fabric and I'm so glad I didn't.  Can you imagine how freaky it would be if mommy's arm came out of her head?  Or grampa's missing an ear?

The good thing is that since John made the blocks, we have a lot left over.  We just bought a long piece of wood from Home Depot and he cut and sanded the blocks.  I can pitch these and try something else.  I was thinking of letting Max paint some himself.