A little bench for the hallway and 100 Posts

 A couple of weeks ago I found a little table at our town´s antique fair. 

It had seen better times, but overall it was in good condition and I liked the lines.

 

Can you see its potential? With its curvy legs and strong built it was the perfect candidate for turning it into a little bench or stool.

Especially since the top “tiles” weren´t really my taste anyway.

A few days later I went to the home improvement store to gather my supplies:

• Fabric
• White Paint
  
• A Paint Roller
  
• A Sponge for buffing up
  
• Foam

I already have an upholstery stapler.

This weekend I finally got work, by first roughing up the wood and cleaning the stool.

Next I added 1 layer of paint …

… then a second layer …

… and finally a third layer of white paint …

Patience is key. I started on Friday night, added the second layer on Saturday morning and the final layer on Saturday afternoon.

Next, I started thinking about how to add the foam and fabric.

As you can see from the above picture, I initially thought about just adding a small pad to the top, but then I decided on taking the fabric all aroung the stool. I forgot to take a picture, but I simply added another layer foam the size of the entire stool to the top. Then I added my fabric, flipped the stool over and started stapling.

Here is how the stool looked like mid-way through. Unfortunately at that point all of my staples were used up and I had to wait to get new ones.

Finally, after another couple of days, I was able to get more staples and to finish the foot stool.

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1000 Years!

This weekend one of our neighbour villages celebrated 1000 years since they were first mentioned. Everybody had done their best to create a great party. With a focus on keeping things as they were in past centuries, they had organized a fair as in the Middleage. It was great. There was so much to look at, many of the inhabitants were dressed in midieval costumes and you could see the effort that had gone into every single detail.

Here is the clown that greeted us right at the entrance to the market.

And here is the globe that became part of the village decoration:

There is my son listening to the backpipe players.

There were a lot of little tents from different artisan trades to look at, such as shoemakers, ropemakers, carpenters, etc.

My favorite must have been the potter, since I couldn´t get my eyes off his selection of pieces. They were just beautiful.
I ended up taking home two items, a flower vase and a plate for fruit or cookies. These were the first two items I purchased in the pursuit of re-starting an entire household. Being that they were handmade from a local artist, I believe they make a fitting pair of firsts.

I love that I could use the caraffe either for water or juice, or maybe even as a charming flower pot.

Here is another closeup of the caraffe: