Finished!!

So I am totally caught up on all my blogging for the last 2 months!!  Yay!  I wanted to have it all done before Collin's birthday on Friday and I did it with 2 days to spare!

But that is not the only accomplishment I am proud of this week!  You know how I love my projects....  And the table has been in the works for a long time and it's finally done!

I didn't really take a good before picture but here's one of Brady eating french toast on the table one morning so you can see the color it used to be.  It was also really scratched and the chairs pretty much had no finish left on them.  We received them as a hand me down from my in-laws when we got married.  She had painted the backs and legs green to go with her stuff so I repainted them black gloss when we got married.  But the black gloss paint was majorly chipped from being moved and stored (in our shed in AZ for 5 years!).  So it was definitely time for these to get a little face lift!

BEFORE



Here's the underside of the chair you can also see the color of the
finish and where some of the old green was sprayed on

I stripped off and sanded what was left of the finish and stain on the seats.  I painted the backs and legs a satin finish black before I put the new stain and finish on.



Did I mention how annoying it is to sand completely and
tape around round spindles??  Not my favorite part!



AFTER!

It looks so much better!  The table looks a little lighter than the chairs because the wood on there soaked in the stain a little different than the seats but oh well!  Plus, in this picture the flash is reflecting off the table even more so it makes it look more obvious.  But I am done and it is back in our kitchen!  I started about a month ago and got the table done right away but then I had to stop because of the heat.   I couldn't work out in the garage again until last week.  So we used folding chairs around the table until the chairs were done.

This is the more fun project that I also completed this month. 

Angry birds!!!  Who else is addicted to this game??? 

Anyway, when it got so hot out, I needed an "inside" project.  I found free patterns and a tutorial online, went and got the fleece and got started.

The idea started to formulate in my head that I wanted to make these a while back.  When we first moved here, Brady invented this game he called "Pluckers".  I have no idea where he pulled the name out of but that's what it is.  It consisted of throwing around these soft plush baby blocks with Aaron in the living room.

Then the game Angry Birds became an obsession on my phone-for me and Brady! :)  He he...  He was asking to play it all the time on my phone and I only let him play it for a little while at a time.  Erica gave him a plush red angry bird and he loved it and slept with it at night.  When I saw the tutorial I thought that I could make these and we could play a real-life version of the game Angry Birds and it would be even better than Pluckers and he wouldn't be asking to play it on my phone as much anymore!  Score!  He loves them!

Here he is in the basement playing.  We set up the green pigs all over and throw the birds at them to knock them out-just like the game!

If you look closely enough you can see one baby pig on the top of the TV, one on the chair blocked partially by Brady and the one he is trying to hit on the corner of the white kids table.  You can also see the black bomb bird up in the air right over the shelves. 

Here's a link to where I found the tutorials in case anyone else has some Angry Bird fans in your house!

Angry Birds Link

I loved this tutorial and it was pretty easy to follow, especially for a novice sewer like myself.  I cheated a little-I did not do all the appliques on the face.  After the 2nd one I did, it was taking forever because I wasn't very good at it.  So instead of appliqueing with the fleece, I used felt and hot glued!  Much easier and quicker for me and it looks pretty good. :)  It feels pretty good to get my projects all done.  Now it's on to birthday party planning.  I have already completed a couple things for that but I'll post those pictures when we do Collin's birthday party next week with our families.