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Craft room update
Hello, almost vacation!
Matt and I are planning a little trip to the beach for a few days. I feel like I am in desperate need of a vacation. Our last “real” vacation was two years ago to Jamaica.
So, let’s see, what have I been up to. Well, I am still working on my craft room. I think it’s going to be a work in progress for a while. It’s been so freaking hot lately that I haven’t wanted to work on the stuff I need to finish, like painting my shelf brackets or my chandelier. This past weekend it cooled down enough and I was able to get outside and spray paint my shelf brackets. I bought the Ikea Ekby Gallo shelves while we were there a few weeks ago. I knew I wanted to spray paint the bracket piece gold since gold will be my accent color. I bought some Krylon metallic gold spray paint (I think this is it) and it was the BOMB! The nozzle swiveled and the push button was super smooth. No more spray paint hand cramp. I used 1 can for both brackets.
Now that I have the shelving painted I need Matt to help me install them over my craft table. Then, I need to start working on my chandelier. It’s one mom had and is no longer using so she’s offered it up for my craft room. It’s already goldish but I want it to be a little more gold. I think it will look amazing painted the same gold as the shelf brackets.
I brought my brackets and shelves inside last night so I could take some pics and I realized my shelves are the wrong size. Whomp whomp! The brackets are Gallo or something and the shelves are not. Total IKEA fail! Thankfully the shelves were’t very expensive. I’m sure I can find another place to use them. I told Matt last night I would just have to run to Lowe’s and get a piece of wood that would fit. While not ideal, this will actually allow me to paint the wood the same color as the table, chair and trim. So it might actually look a little better.
While we are on the craft room, I said a while back I would review the fabric I bought for my chair from Spoonflower. Spoonflower is actually local, they are in Durham, and they print their own fabric. This allows for hundreds and hundreds of choices you can’t get anywhere else. I fell in love with several of their patterns and I couldn’t find anything close at other fabric stores. Here’s my review:
They have tons of fabric choices you can’t find anywhere else. They also have a variety of fabric types. Since I was recovering a chair I bought their basic cotton fabric. This runs $17.00 a yard. Not terrible considering it’s custom. I think it took less than a week for my order to complete and ship, which isn’t bad. The packaging arrived and it was pretty cute. Now the fabric. I can’t say I’m blown away with the quality of the fabric. To me, it felt kind of “flimsy”. It’s a very thin, lightweight fabric. I was expecting it to have a little more weight to it. I have various other cotton fabrics in my stash and I don’t think this feels like quite the same quality. With that said, I will say it washed okay and looks fine on my chair. I’m not sure how it will hold up but this is also a chair I don’t plan to use daily. I think the colors and pattern were what I expected and I was very pleased with that. Would I order fabric from them again? Maybe, but only if I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted and they had a pattern I liked. I think I would probably try to find something from Fabric.com first. I only got their basic cotton so I’m not sure how the other fabrics feel. They may be a little nicer but they are also more expensive. I went cheap. 🙂