A Rainy Day in Boston Town

You can ask anyone in my family - I always have big dreams for crafting projects that somehow find their way to the back of my closet within a few years.

- Christmas stockings

- Scrapbooks

- Shadowboxes

- Pillows made out of cool scarves (I actually completed these!)

- Refinishing two French bistro chairs I bought at a garage sale for $5 TOTAL

So, the last one on the list had been staring me in the face for the past year and a half.  In New York City, the chairs sat out on our balcony all year, and I never refinished them.

Since it's been pouring in Boston for about three days, I decided today would be a great day to check out this fabulous fabric store in Beantown that I've heard alot about - Winmil Fabrics.

Bingo! An hour later, I left with all the supplies I needed to recover my two chairs and another chair I found in our apartment basement on moving day!  And the staff was SO helpful (considering that the only things I know about reupholstering come from watching hours of TLC's Trading Spaces and Googling "how to reupholster!").

Here are the before and after pics:

And I'm going to reupholster this chair in the reverse fabric (red background, white knots) and probably stain the wood a dark espresso. 

I know it looks nasty now (ewwww!) - but I think it has some serious trash-and-treasure potential.  Stay tuned....