Me, Myself and Irene

Sorry, I couldn’t resist!  Sunday I decided {in between a little packing} that I needed to work on something.  Anything creative at this point!  This rocker is on my list of things to do and, since I’ve found out you can’t pack paint on the moving van, I might as well do it now.

I had gotten this rocker about 19-20 years ago through Country Sampler.  {Remember them?}  I was into this very country look at the time and I had gotten it for my son.  I decided to transform it for my granddaughter to use.

I started out by adding a simple wood embellishment that I found at Michaels.  I glued it on with a Gorilla Glue because the wood glue is packed up already, but it says it can be used on wood.  I painted it with the Annie Sloan Old White chalk paint and just did the clear wax on it.  I’m kind of liking it as is {without the dark wax} for a little girl.

Of course, it needs a pretty little cushion.  I used some of the Alice fabric I still had left over from when I made her a pillow and some trim I had in my stash.

I finished it off on Monday and I can’t wait to see if she likes it!

Next up is the headboard {I know, finally!}.  I have two reasons now to get it done ~ first, I had thought it would make it easy once we move to just put it into place in the bedroom already painted and second, is the “you can’t pack paint” rule via the moving companies.  Since I’m not working now, I hope to have that done this week.  Here’s a sneak peek!

Sunday, Irene had turned into a Tropical Storm by the time it hit Long Island.  This just means that instead of 74 mph winds {which constitute a hurricane} we had about 67 mph winds.  Much of New York still got hit with flooding and downed trees and wires, but I think we were luckier than what could have been.  I hope everyone who was in Irene’s path is okay.

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Kathy