Cat Napping

Just waiting for one more of my daycare kids to show up.  While I'm just sitting here I spotted Zion taking a quick cat nap.  He gets in the strangest positions but I just love him to death! 

My Primitive Home: Fall Contest Winner!

My Primitive Home: Fall Contest Winner!

Fall Contest Winner!

Hello everyone!

We have a winner in our "Fall" contest!  Gail Norton from Assonet, Mass submitted this "very" primitive "Fall" display.  I thought this was very original and creative!  Thanks for the entry Gail!

Here are pics of other entries we had

Denni Bowles Display

Kristal Norton's Display

Terri Liles Display

I wish to thank you ladies for your entries.  Check my website for more contests coming up for the holiday season!

    Blessings,

   Dianne

Snow Likes the Prim Chair!

Well as soon as I was finished with my prim chair my cat Snow got right up on it and made herself comfortable.  I don't think she could wait until I was finished.  She sat and watched me putting the seat on as if to say "hurry up and finish so I can check it out"!  LOL!  Here's a pic!

Prim Chair Finished!

Well I finished my prim chair on Sunday and I was very happy with the results.  It cost me $1.99 for a yard of material to finish it because I didn't quite have enough already on hand.  You can't really use small pieces of fabric because the strips have to be at least 24" long.  Anyway,  here is a pic of my finished prim chair!

Primitive Chair Makeover

Good morning everyone!

I haven't blogged in awhile so I thought I'd update everyone on what I've been doing.  I recently was given an old ladder back chair and decided to paint it and change the seat.  It was sitting outside and the seat was made from an old woven straw like material which basically fell apart in the rain, etc. 


So far I've painted in flat black and an now working on redoing the seat.  I cut a "ton" of 1" strips of material about 30" long and grouped them in sets of 9 strips.  I knotted one end of each group and then braided them.  I then started one one side of the chair and worked from side to side.  

I'm now working back to front and just weaving in the braided strips.  I'm using left over cotton fabric I had lying around so it didn't cost anything.  Here is a pic of what it looks like so far.

"Fall" Primitive Wall Display

I was trying to figure out what to put on my living room wall for a "Fall" display and here is what I came up with.  First I had these 2 shutters down in my basement.  They're the kind where you can change the insert panel in the middle.  I found some fabric downstairs that I thought would give them that primitive autumn touch.  I painted them flat black (they were originally white) and then hung them on either side of this old wooden window box I found at a yard sale.  I put my primitive pumpkin men inside with a pumpkin in the middle and hung an old sign (which I also found at a yardsale) on top.  A sprig of fall berries completed the display.  Here's a pic.