How to: Slipper Stool - Hot Glue

So, here is a project I took on a few years ago for a contest I entered...this is the finished slipper stool that I up-cycled, using - wait for it - a hot glue gun! I saw this home design show several years ago with Todd Oldham using a hot glue gun to re-upholster a couch and I ran wild with the idea.

Above are the supplies I used: fabric scraps, scissors, glue, gun and Popsicle stick. This is for pressing down the fabric on top of the glue so as not to burn your little fingers. The larger sticks work well too.


This is the horrible shape this piece was in prior to my working my magic. Ripped, stained. etc.


Up close pic of the results. Really, just lay out your fabric how you think you might like it to look, this may change, and start gluing away. (See in-process photos below).


A good part of it is knowing where to bend the fabric together so that it appears to look like a seam. Tuck over in areas that cover other fabric and press until the glue seams set (see edges framing the top).



I can't say that all areas are completely "clean" from the glue, but this was my first try at this! Give me a break! All things considered, it turned out pretty good. Oh, and the hottest setting worked the best. I actually did a whole chair like this, but it got a little "sticky" when I was tucking and gluing in the seat of the chair...

Ok - another b&w...

Another photog of my pretty friend...

Now, I'm not a photographer or anything, but.....

I think this turned out pretty good. My friend posed for my vintage clothing store and I started fooling around with the black and white. (BTW - hair/make-up done by meeee...).

Seriously, ridiculous

These are just some of the things that I have been working on for the last month - for a local boutique: 10 gypsy scarves, 6 boxes, a few pieces of jewelry and tiny canvases. Very thankful for the business. This is what has kept me away from blogging lately, but I will be resuming my more regular posts next week and my BlogFrog connections too!

A Peek at Something New

I have been working away on some of my inspiration boxes for a client that is going to put them in her boutique near where I live. I have such a love for vintagy-style boxes, flowers and birds and love to paint them in a lot of my art work. I may do a line of these for my ditzyredhead shop on Etsy also. Enjoy!

What do you think?

Whew! Been away from my blog for awhile....well here is a section of my office/studio/closet/exercise room. I am trying to make it a nice little work space, with what little space there is. This is an area above my sewing area (did I forget to mention that one?) that I was able to atleast make cute. Hubby promises my sun/art room after September...we'll see.

Nest

So recently, hubby went out to his truck in the morning only to find this itty bitty birds nest. I had to keep it! Last year at Spring time, I found two blue empty robins' eggs. It would make a nice arrangement of some kind. Of course hubby says to Lysol it or something because he thinks there will be all kinds of disease, etc. in it. Hmmmm...