Long time no post… Spring is really flying by. The frozen pipes throughout town for all of March seems so far past, as does the head cold that wiped most of April off the calendar. Here’s a brief summary of how winter ended:
Needing some colour in the house after what feels like six full months of gloom and hibernation…
Solution:
Tada! Homemade sunshine.
In my 10 days of hibernation while Eric was away, I finished working on my new chair.
I bought the chair for $2 at Restore (or as my dad accidentally called it “Rehab for Humanity”). I don’t have photos of when it looked grungy.
I sanded it by hand, then glued on some flowers and stars punched out of old music books, kids books, National Geographic magazines, and a fallen-apart copy of Haircut and Other Stories.
Because I didn’t want to risk uglifying my chair with a collage gone wrong, I added more to the underside using butterflies I’d picked off the floor after watching Ovo, saved since Eric took me to the circus in 2009.
To a few of the butterflies I added some lines cut out of a fallen-apart copy of Waiting for Godot. (Lots of books in need of repair around here.)
It doesn’t make the butterflies sound existential, though. They sound more whiny.
Finally, I sprayed the legs chrome-colour with leftover paint borrowed from dad and put on a few coats of clear Varathane.
