A Vintage .99 cent Apron Makes A Great Seat Cushion

I'm shopping for something special to go with this-

Oh,excuse me.  Let me get Reef down.

Alright, this little chair is from Goodwill.  I paid $3.99 for it.

The twirly rod iron frame I like, the seat cushion, not so much.

Let's see what I can do with this little beauty.

I want to find the perfect fabric for the cushion. Where do I go?

A fabric store, you might think, but you know me better than that.

I want something unique; something entirely my own.

I'm off to Mesa Thrift Store, a quaint & crowded thrift store in downtown Mesa.

Like most thrift stores, this store has a fabric rack. 

Sometimes scary, sometimes scrappy, but all unique and waiting for someone to snatch them up.

Reef comes up behind me with a pop Pop POP!

"What's this," I ask.

"Look Mom," is his way of saying "Please buy it for me."  For $1.98, of course I will.

So, we continue our search when suddenly I see the biggest bag of used yarn ever. It towers Reef and his lawn mower.

Do people really own that much yarn?

Anyway, because of my ultra-patient, happy, fist-eating, beautiful baby, I'm able to do a bit more shopping.

Nothing good in the fabric section, maybe I should shop for something vintage in the clothing aisles.

As we walk around, Reef has to fist-fight a few toddlers who want the lawn mower, but he hangs onto it.  Good form. 

That's when I find this great chair priced at $6.98. Now that's the vintage I'm talking about.

It even opens up into a make-up case.  

Why doesn't America make stuff like this anymore?

I must have this chair (and I will), but I'm distracted.

I am looking for something pink to recover the seat cushion of my chair I already have at home, but absolutely not this.

No, no, no, it's trying way to hard to be chic,but wait.

What's this.  A vintage apron?

I think this will do just swell and for .99 cents, I'll give it a try.

I buy it (and much more which I promise to show you on a later date).  

Once my chair is spray painted white,

 I cut out the fabric, making sure to keep the pockets of the apron front and center.

I can handle a craft if it involves a glue gun.

And what about the sash.  

It certainly may be trash, but I can't throw it away.

I glue it the bottom of the seat cushion.

Perfect for securing the cushion to the frame.

Remember the beautiful EDEN name piece made by my sweet sister-in-law Heather.

I love the vintage-inspired scrap book paper she used.

 

I think it works great with the look of the chair.

And my $4.99 rod-iron side table from Goodwill fits with 

this sweet chair too.

Something all my own, yes indeed.