Before and After Problem

I love it when problems turn out to have surprisingly happy endings!

Like when my consulting work essentially vanished and I started my art career. My art journey has been a surprising and happy journey.

Well, with my husband's office chairs, I had a problem. My husband had two, boring, navy blue office chairs with cherry wood that he used to need in a previous office.....

Did I mention they were boring? Nothing is actually wrong with these chairs. They are comfortable, but very "office-y" looking. Plus - we live in a house, not an office.  I wanted to sell them on Craigslist, like I did with his desks and filing cabinets, but he drew the line at the chairs. He would not even consider selling the two navy blue chairs.

He loves those chairs, primarily because he is a huge fan of anything navy. (If I were to paint the washer and dryer navy, he might just do all the laundry!) His rationale was that since he can always use the chairs in a future office, ditching them now might mean buying new ones in a year or two. Did I mention that we have zero storage room in this old house?  (And I am not parting with cash each month to fund a storage unit.) So, my problem was -what to do with two large navy blue office chairs?

Initially, I thought there was no place for them.  But, it just so happened, that I really needed chairs in my living room.  

So, I decided to make slip covers......

Aren't they cute?

I LOVE those chairs, now.

I used a white duck cloth.

Every bit of sewing and measuring and procrastinating was worth it.  

I am not sure I could have purchased chairs that I like any more than I like these with the slipcovers.

Sometimes (with a little elbow-grease), a problem can have a happy ending.

Oh, and speaking of elbow grease, you know about my 31-Days-of-Art challenge I made on Nester's blog.  You also have probably noticed that I have gotten WAY behind, therefore, I have been frantically painting.  Here are some pieces of art I created the past few days, as I try to catch up with my 31-Days-of-Art plan for October. 

Here are numbers 18-20.....

Painting 18: Sweet Autumn Pumpkin 12"x12"

Painting 19: Santa Number 2  17"x17"

Painting 20: Field O' Flowers  29"x15"

Click here to see the rest of this art series....

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