It's been a LOOOONG year!

I haven't been on in while. Since I finished my "Travelling Bedroom", the love of my life came home from Afghanistan, we've been vacationing (ok, STAYcationing), and I've gone back to teaching. The Spring of last year wasn't easy, but it was certainly rewarding.

I would love to have a chair where my 2nd Graders can sit and read their writing. I've been inspired by this chair:

Shopped around flea markets and 2nd Hand stores, and located a chair that I thought "had character." I sanded it down just a little to get the paint to stick. I spray painted with this:

"Why this paint?" you ask. Well, basically because I'm impatient. And it works. At least, so far...

I found the most incredible paint pens at Walmart for $9 a box. LOVE these little buggers!

Unfortunately, I didn't take before photos, and no photos during the process. Yeah. I've SLACKED considerably!

Here are some closeups:

Now, I need to find something to write in the heart, and a quote for the edges. Hmmm.... Ideas, anyone? I have always loved the quote from Bob Ross, the painter guy with the wild 'doo from the 80's PBS show.

Other than that quote, I'm perplexed. Flumoxed. Downright stumped. Anybody got some ideas???