Princess Ribbon Chair - Children's Chair Re-Purposed

I have started the beginning process of planning a Princess party for my cousin's 4th birthday party. I always look for something I can DIY, and I don't have children myself, so when Maddie's 4th birthday came up I signed up.

I know I wanted to create a castle out of cardboard, I had decided to buy a party packet and chose this Princess Party Pack. And now we've moved on to figure out furniture and other misc. So the other night we passed a house that had some children's furniture thrown on the side of the curb.  Yeah, I'm a picker. lol. So we got a little red folding metal chair, with a padded bottom that was completely ripped apart and the back was missing, I'm assuming if it had been intact it also would have been padded. There was a blue table that I'm assuming went with the chair, the table itself had a broken leg snappy thing? lol, not sure how to describe that. It also has a dry erase top. Easy fix. And we got another little chair outside plastic chair in hunter green (I HATE the color hunter green). All of these things are small and kid sized.

I immediately began work on the red folding chair, considering the seat was all ripped up (Sorry, I didn't get a before photo I was so excited over it I completely forgot) I decided to recover it, upon looking at the bottom I could tell it screwed on, which was great news for me!

I took it apart, and spray painted the metal base a hot pink color, which is my princess color (of COURSE!) And I re-upholstered the seat in white pleather. Because the back was missing and I wanted it to be more festive and girly (just cause pink isn't enough! lol) I took a lot of different kinds of ribbon and tied them on the top of the bar to hang down.

Different sizes, colors, textures...to create a streamer effect. Very interesting to look at! I'll work on better photos (I know my photos always suck!) but here is the finished product as it stands!

The table is still undergoing painting, the dark blue is hard to cover with pink. :)


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Glam Wig Head - Britney Spears Style! Tutorial

Hello! I know I haven't posted for awhile I've had some serious problems getting blogger to actually POST my updates. So here's another attempt at letting you guys know what's going on. This week I'm making a diaper cake and I'll be posting a tutorial for that soon, and coming up I am planning my 4 year old cousins birthday party complete with a huge cardboard box princess castle. So photos for that will be coming soon.

I did want to post a tutorial on my GLAM BRITNEY SPEARS WIG HEAD! You read that right! lol. We were digging around in my overly packed garage and came across this wig head, my sister said trash it, but I said noo...I can make something totally awesome with this. She was beat up, dented, she's seen better days. So this is what I started out with and I can't wait for you to see what I ended with. You can buy these brand new for about $5 at wig/beauty shops.

This is what she was BEFORE I started on her. You can see all the dents and scrapes on her. I've named her Britney. lol. .Why do you ask did I choose to fashion her after Britney Spears? Purely by accident, a few weeks ago I got a great deal on two Britney Spears tickets for my sister, to the Femme Fatale tour, and my sister loves Britney. I bought the tickets at Groupon, so check them out if you are looking for something to do in your area, I get a lot of GREAT deals there.


So I chose a few lines of lyrics out of her Music, matched them up with some awesome font "Vijaya" for I'm Addicted to You, "MV Boli" for My Sexy Attitude, and "Carnivalee Freakshow" for Just like a Circus.You can find these fonts free on most free font pages. I used size 66 and I put them all in Bold. Printed them out in black and began to cut them.

I shaped them them into rounded edges and put the three lines of lyrics to the side.

I pulled out my tissue paper and went through what I had available.I had dark blue, lime green, pink and purple. I chose to use Pink and Purple, nothing says Britney Spears like hot pink! I also dug through my glues and found some Elmer's Glue and a small bottle of Triple Thick, it's a brush on glaze, you can get it at any craft store, I bought mine for $3.99 at Hobby Lobby.

 And I tore the tissue into strips, and began to layer it on Britney's head. I would put a layer of purple and then glue down a line of lyrics, then layer pink tissue on top of the lyrics. (Note: this is why I used black ink to print the lyrics, and you want to use a light colored tissue over the lyrics or you wont be able to see through it.) You see her in this picture in the process of being glued together. Took me about three days in between working and doing other day to day things. She had to dry fully before I could glaze her.

 Here she is on the right fully glazed! She is shinny and in person she is very very mod and cool, She doesn't photograph so terribly well. lol I have tons more photos and if you want to see more just let me know!




She's pretty cool if I do say so myself, she's going to my sister so she put her on her vanity and use her to hold her wigs or headbands, whatever she wants. I'm kind of fond of Britney! What do you think?

 

Dollar Tree Finials: Before and After

My sister found these cool looking finials at the local Dollar Tree. They aren't too cute and they definitely don't match anything in our house, however we do have all that leftover paint from everything else. lol.

She painted one raspberry and one pink. This will match her bedroom perfectly and you got to admit they do  look completely awesome!







Cost of 4 finials: $1 each $4 total
Cost of paint: Nothing! Leftover from other projects.

Total cost of Finial Revamp: $4

PHOTOS! Just the photos ma'am.

Here you go here are some BEFORE and AFTER photos for you!

The Chair After:

Ugly ain't it? You should have seen it BEFORE I cleaned all the spiders off.

















The Chair After:

~ Cost of Chair: Free
~ Cost of Pink Paint: Free! (We have a local paint recycling center that lets you have whatever paint you want for free!)
~ Cost of Fabric: I don't remember! I bought this fabric months ago because I liked the design!


Total Cost of Chair: FREE!










The Lamp Before:

This lamp caught my sister's eye with the little bumps on it, we picked it up at a Junk store in the basement. We got it for a whole $5! It was dirty and painted some really nasty gold green color, so paint was in order.












The Lamp After:

Cost of Lamp:$5
Cost of Paint: $1
Cost of Lamp Shade: $12

Total Cost of Lamp: $18