New Printer and The Graphics Fairy

Bill got a new printer not too long ago. 

It has been so much fun for me. 

For him?

Not so much.

I discovered The Graphic's Fairy several years ago.

I wanted some vintage images of angels for Christmas.

I tried printing them on the big copier at the school. 

It didn't work.

I hoped that our new printer would work for one of my Halloween ornaments that needed repair. 
Somehow I'd lost the graphic off of it.
I headed over to The Graphics Fairy to see if she had the image that had fallen off my ornament.

She did. 
It ended up being too big so I downloaded and printed this one instead. 

She had this little guy too.

The images are available for free for your own personal use. 

You cannot make up a bunch of crafts and sell them on Etsy.

This site is perfect for me because I adore switching out prints for the season.
 This pumpkin seed packet was sized to fit into a 5x7 frame. 
It adorned the powder room wall during the month of October.

I'm excited to pop this guy into the frame for Thanksgiving.

As soon as Bill got his laptop hooked up to the new printer he upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10.
Now the computer won't communicate with the printer. 
He's a little frustrated that searching on-line hasn't yielded a fix. 
My Mac works just fine with it. 
If I remind him of that, he gets a little bitter. 

 Here is the link so that you can have as much fun as I have been having. 
The Graphics Fairy
 She has hundreds of vintage and antique images. 
Have fun.
Katie 

Dumpster Divine Chair Edition

Twice recently I have been driving around and found chairs out by the trash. Okay technically they were not in the dumpster as the title of this post suggests and I have really only pulled something out of a dumpster once in all my trash picking days.

But, I thought these two chairs had potential and hey they were free.

I was picking up some orb spray paint during my deblingificationpalooza when I saw this can of primer. I loved the color on the cap and it reminded me of the finishes I have been seeing on the blogs done with Annie Sloan's chalk paint. A primer, it seemed to me, would definitely have a chalky mat finish that I was after.

I also don't have a lot of time with teaching and blogging. 

Spray painting them seemed to fit the bill.

I gave each of the chairs a coat or two.

This one was missing a seat, so I cut one out of plywood. I turned the chair upside down and traced it.

  BilI's Jig saw did a nice job. 

One morning I saw that Mr. Bill had thrown out the old cushion from one of the patio chairs. I rescued it from the trash. Dumpster diving in my own yard! 

Foam is costly and I will recycle it whenever I can. 

 I used some drop cloths to cover both seats.

Drop cloths are everywhere these days.

Recovering dining room chairs is one of the easiest home improvements. It isn't hard, but you do need a staple gun. 

 I also did this old bird cage that I almost 
sent to the thrift. Until... I saw something nearly identical at Canton. The new one at Canton was $30.00, this was free!

 One of my darling students gave me this cactus for an end of school year gift. It's so unusual and beautiful.

I love the pop of blue/gray in these chairs.  It is a good counter point to my purples, browns and creams. 

 I'm smitten with the cane. It painted up beautifully.
There is something about painted cane that speaks to me for some reason. 

All in all I am please with this work horse can of paint and primer. I have tried another one and it didn't work quite as well. I'm not really sure where these will end up in the house. Mr. Bill thinks I have a chair rescuing/hording problem. 
But I just can't stand to see good chairs end up in the land fill. 
At least I don't bring home stray cats. 

Sprinkled with freebies,
Katie 
Linking with,
French Country Cottage 
The Brambleberry Cottage

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