Jolly Project #3: Splatter chairs!

We have a neighbor who keeps placing perfectly good items out on his lawn as trash --- now his collection of trash is slowly taking over our garage! A few weekends ago Steve was passing by and noticed two modern chairs just sitting out on the lawn and rescued them from garbage dump doom. In my excitement to repaint the backs of the chairs yesterday, I forgot to take the "before" shots. The chairs have chrome frames with some synthetic black fabric on the seats (all in perfect condition) and had darkly-stained wood backs.

Over the weekend I sat out on the porch in the gorgeous weather and sanded down most of the stain (150 grit). It was a pretty windy day so I dusted them off and put them back in the garage until a less windy day rolled around. Yesterday's experiments in the lab went to hell so I decided to give myself a few extra hours in the afternoon (i.e., I played hooky and went home). Even though it was just as windy, I couldn't wait any longer to paint! Two wooden chair backs, one can of black spray paint, one can of black with silver metallic particles paint, a paint brush, and the leftover "Atomic Vomit Green" Nickelodeon indoor paint from our guest bathroom = NEW SPLATTER CHAIR BACKS!

That's Emma in the background hunting for lizards -- she's an awesome "Gainesville Brown Dog"!!

It's hard to get a feel for the splatter color from these pictures but it's really bright green!

Excuse the oversized bike box in the background and coiled up bike chain under the chair --- that's a pretty good example of our world --- bikes, bike parts, bike lights, etc. EVERYWHERE!

That box belongs to our brand new babies -- Specialized S-Works Enduro Pro -- amazing full suspension bikes that we got a smoking deal on. Sorry, non-craft tangent there.

PS -- The Janome Hello Kitty sewing machine came in the mail yesterday!!! I am intimidated, I won't lie. I picked up an illustrated learn to sew book yesterday that should help, and I think I need to make a run to Jo-Ann to pick up all of the sewing basic tools.