Pallet Fireplace, Ghostbusters Painting & Beatles Chair - Thanks Pinterest!

So, I LOVE looking at Pinterest, so many talented people and their amazing ideas!   

We decided, what the heck, let's give it a try.  :) 

A) Saw a simular painting and decided to give it a try. I had an unused canvas and I love the character Stay Puft from the Ghostbusters' Movie.    :)

B) A while back, we had an electric fireplace that was given to me by my grandmother.    We ended up purchasing a used 70 gallon fish tank.  We gave the fireplace to my brother & sister-in-law. After a few years, we ended up getting rid of the fish tank (it sprang an unfixable leak).   I missed having that fireplace mantle, so decided after looking on Pinterest to make our own fireplace mantle.  We picked up the pallets free of charge from my workplace (as they just recycle them)  Mr. Bob then got to work and created this fireplace - I love it so much!!!  :)

C) A few years back, a Beatle's Sofa appeared online with a price tag of over $2000.00.   Something we could not afford (plus the fact we own cats, did not want it getting ruined by being scratched apart).   One day I spotted a pillow that was the same fabric on the couch.   Around the same time my cousin was cleaning house and gave us a chair that was in a little need of repair.   So we actually cut apart and reused and Ikea table cloth for the seat portion and painted the ugly brown chair black and placed that nice little pillow on it.   Total price:  Chair = Free.  Pillow = $50.00.  Ikea Table Cloth = $10.00.  :). Not bad!!!   :).  So awesome!!   Goes with my Yellow Submarine theme :)

The Fab Four Meet Up Together & Awesome Finds for me at Value Village

Ladies & Gentlemen

THE BEATLES

lol

Well, here you have it, the Fab Four together once again and in my "standing room". Yep, Bob and I have a standing room in our house. He calls it that because we don't have any furniture in it. It actually has come in VERY hand that way. We had extra room to place another table of 6 for Christmas Dinner and on New Years Eve we had a party and people brought their blow-up beds and it was an extra room for that.

I still have to varnish them. Ringo is done, George needs one more coat, Paul two and John three. I'm pretty impressed.

Next I want to brag about some fab finds at Value Village. I can hardly wait until it gets warmed out for me to wear the shirts.

I also found this (I took a photo of the front and back)HI TO MY FRIENDS IN ENGLAND!

And last but not least, this awesome fun-fur purse!!

I just love it, it is so soft!!!

John Lennon joined us at the end of Family Day

Hi everyone!

Had a long wonderful weekend with Valentines Day & Family Day.

So after we got home this evening from a wonderful dinner prepared by my brother's girlfriend at my mom's house, I really wanted to work on my John Lennon chair. I had base coated him yesterday evening and so I really wanted to get him finished before the weekend was out. I actually was done painting at 11:30pm just as the evening news finished up.

His colours are a little wild (I really thought my brother might get upset with me as the chair is pink) LOL!! Oh well, Bob thinks it looks fab. I'll have to take a photo tomorrow of all the FAB FOUR together. I want to get them all sealed before March 5th as we are helping host a Guitar Hero World Tour party and I would love for these chairs to be used at the party.

My next big project will be to work on the table. I'm debating what to do. I know I want to paint each leg a different colour (based on colours I used on the chairs) but I'm debating to paint on the top. Right now, it is just plain wood -- but it is going to be my Art Room table, so thinking that it might get "well used" I'm thinking of not putting too much work into it and then focus painting other pieces of furniture such as TV tables, etc... maybe even a dresser in the bedroom.

I'm so thrilled I was able to knock off four chairs so quickly. I love painting!!


Pillows in the background purchased from this shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6165982

Ladies & Gentlemen "Paul McCartney"

Hey all! Meet Paul - he has entered the building. :)

Just finished him this evening 02-09-09

Love the colours in this one, nice and bright!

Well, that means Mr. Bob has one more night of sanding coming up with one last chair. That means John will join the group.

I then will have to do the ultimate plan for the table which will be a major job, but I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks for checking this out! Let me know what you think! Thanks!!

George Harrison has come to visit Ringo Starr

Well, George decided to come and visit Ringo. lol I've been sick all weekend and when I did feel good enough I asked Bob to sand down the next chair and I started to basecoat it on Sunday. My flu turned into a cold and I was off from work and after a lot of sleeping and drinking orange juice started to feel better. By Tuesday night I decided to finish George up after watching the movie Hanncock with Bob (that's actually a good movie, I heard it sucked, but we were happy with it). :o)

As you can see, George isn't as fancy as Ringo with the colour choices, but I had decided to use the brown and green based on what George was wearing in the photo.

So now I have to get Bob to sand down the next two chairs so I can paint Paul and then John. I'm having a lot of fun painting these chairs!

NOTE: I decided to seal Ringo's chair with DecoArt extra thick sealer and I will never use that stuff again, basically it is REALLY thick to apply and it globbed a lot on the chair (sigh) I thought it was save time, but what a mess. I've decided I'll buy a different sealer and just take the time to apply 5-6 coats. :o)

RINGO STARR is in the HOUSE

Well, I did it, I promised myself I would start working on my Beatle's Yellow Submarine Chairs and I finished Chair #1 --- RINGO

I'm just so thrilled with this and look forward to working on GEORGE next.


Stay tuned!



Oh, and I finished my second Penguin a week or two ago, here he is.