Making Progress

Here are a couple things that are still works in progress. I finally started working on this chair last weekend. You can see the before picture below. If I remember correctly I think I only paid $15 for this at a flea market. I bought the blue linen fabric at a thrift store awhile back, 4 yards for $4.99. I'm still not finished with it, I need to add the trim around the edge to hide where I stapled the fabric on. I had second thoughts on the trim I had bought to do this (too bright) so I'm going to be looking for something better this week. This was the first time I've ever done upholstery like this and I was surprised...it wasn't too hard! Also, below you can see one of the wreath appliques that I've added to the small china cabinet. The reason there is only one is because sometimes I do really stupid things and this was one of those times! I only ordered one!!! I have no idea what I was thinking but I put in another order and I finally got the second one yesterday so now I can finish this up. I've painted it a light gray and next I'm going to glaze over it with a french blue and then I'm going to antique it. I sure hope it turns out how I'm imagining it! Below are the "before" photos of both these items.