Chaise Lounge Makeover

Makeover Monday is here again.  If you are a long time reader you may recall my auction blog post last year.  I bought this nice old chaise and vowed to make it handsome once more. 

The chaise had a stained and torn dark red broadcloth for a covering, and the wood which was originally false grained to look like quarter sawn oak, was now pealing off and was hardly attractive.

I tightened the wobbly claw feet, and painted the wood a nice metallic gold, before tackling the reupholstery.  The fabric I chose is much heavier than the previous choice.   It is a jacquard weave in golds and reds.  I also added an elegant tasseled fringe. 

This lovely, formerly exquisite, Victorian lady will soon find a new home.  I can imagine her lounging at the foot of an elegant bed with the dressing gown of a femme fatale thrown artistically across her breadth.  Thanks for coming along to visit our renewed lady.

Primary Children's KSL Celebrity Dinner!

Its time for My Saturday Style.   Today I am going to share one of my favorite events of the year, The KSL-Primary Children's Radiothon Celebrity Dinner.  Whoa, that's a mouth full.  A local radio station, KSL, does a radiothon once a year to raise money for our local children's hospital to finance charity care.  My dh and I have been involved in this fund raiser for more than 20 years.  The Celebrity Dinner is the culminating event of the fund raiser and always has an inventive theme that allows us to dress up.  This year it was the Mad Hatter's Garden Party.  Above I am shown with my dh and our friends Jeff and Robin.

Here are Randy and Barb, also long time participants and good friends.

The center pieces were adorable.

It was also great to have a couple of my sons and their wives along to share the fun.  This is Nell and Trevor.  Nell borrowed the funky Medusa hat from her sister Sarah, and it won her a wonderful prize, she was one of only 5 people awarded prizes.

This is Davin and his wife Briahnna, as you see not everyone participates in dressing up, but everyone definitely participates in having fun!

 These are a few of the hats that I thought were charming.   This fun steampunk style top hat was worn my Radio Personality Amy Iverson.

This lady did not win, but she should have.   Her hat is actually a funky cloth doll like those you can pick up in the Bahamas and like places.  Isn't she clever?

 I adored this sweet little hat.  This charming young woman made it right before the event.  Maybe I love it because it suggest a good witch, and we all know how I love a good hearted witch!

 Of course a lot of the fun of the celebrity dinner is getting to meet the wonderful radio show hosts that we listen to everyday on the radio.  Here Scott is shown with Doug Wright on the left, one of his favorite personalities.  (and Mine too!) Scott has also worked with Doug on advertising that his employer had done.

Greg Wrubel is the sports caster for BYU and works with KSL broadcasting BYU events.  My son Trevor is a huge BYU fan, and thus a big Greg Wrubel fan (Beside which Greg is Canadian and hugely quippy, so you have to love him!).  Its just funny that he and Trevor wore matching 'hats'.  (He was the MC for the evening and said now he knows what a girl feels like when she shows up at the prom with the same dress as another girl!)

....And last, but not absoultely not least is Amanda Dixon, the cheerful, chirpy radio host to whom I wake up every morning.  I loved her hat and was going to get a picture of it before I realized that it was Amanda wearing it.

We have been going to these events for so long that we really have come to feel part of the KSL family.  What great and down to earth people they are, and its wonderful to come together for such an amazing cause.  Primary Children's is the main charity we support because their fund raisers are run by all volunteer teams and 100% of the money they raise goes to the hospital.  (We also support their other big fund raiser The Festival of Trees.)

Thanks for coming along ... Hope you love hats as much as I do!!  Oh and a special thanks to my friend Jenn for the great crown that I attached to my antique top hat to make my 'mad hatter' hat.

Friday's 'See Flea.o.logy Goodies FIRST!'

Friday flea.o.logy FIRSTS   Yep just a few sneak previews of the goodies I am getting ready for our flea.o.logy sale on May 5th.  I love this sweet antique pink child's cupboard, its a cutie.

 Painted step ladders for display, a great white desk, a green stool and funky hot pink boots.  OK I didn't make the boots, or paint the boots, I just recognized their amazing art form.

 And then there's this cool arched front cubby shelf with new cream colored paint.

... and wire, wire, wire and more wire .... don't miss the fun.  I am working on more goodies and so are the other 31 dealers who are coming!!  There should be something for everyone. Oh and then don't forget Nell's homemade Twix bars .... Yummy!