Happy New Year

January 1st. Inevitably a day of contemplation about the year ahead, resolutions

made and new beginnings. For me, I have vowed this year to

actually see more of my friends, rather than blaming work and home

for being "too busy" to catch up. We'll see how that goes......

In the meantime I have started some of my jobs around the house.

I posted a while ago about the Casala Casalino chairs that I found at my

beloved WAC:

I found five of these at the WAC and was

very happy last week to find another one here to bring

it up to a nice round number

I have read a lot online and in magazines about how to get these beauties looking

good again. They had already been painted so I couldn't follow the instructions

at Fun and VJs posted here. I have also read about getting them re-sprayed like

2Pak at a panel beaters - but it was going to be too expensive. I had even chosen a

lovely Resene Red for the job, but reality hit when I worked out how

much it would cost to get them professionally done.

I am not usually particularly good at this sort of thing, and confided my dilemma to the

lovely people at addVintage. They gave me some advice which involved sanding them

a little and then spraying them myself with this product:

Off to SuperCheapAuto I dutifully went

and bought about 20 cans of this. I knew I would

need a lot as my chairs are such a

dark colour to start with.

So here is the finished result on one of the chairs in our covered outdoor

area downstairs:

I have finished two of the chairs now. It's a steep learning

curve and I think the ones I do at the

end will be much better than the first two - they have a

fewtoo many paint drips from over enthusiastic spraying.

I bought some lovely fabric from etsy to make some

cushions - the chairs are very comfortable but it's nice to

have a bit more padding, and also I think the cushions will hide some

of my mistakes! I think I prefer the green but would

be interested in what you think....

Happy New Year everyone, and may 2012 bring you many

good things

xx