Made it! Number...?!

Happy Monday morning bloggy friends!

I'm in for another Monday Made it with Tara! I've lost count what number we're on now!

So our school has rocking chairs in the K and 1st grade classrooms - they're nothing special, but super nice for reading/ meeting time. Well...when they put the Smart boards in last year, it left us no room for our HUGE rocking chairs, and they were all sorts of tearing the wall up from being pushed back and forth and the feet of it knocking into the wall! eeek!{wish I had a picture here.. you'll have to believe me on this one- seriously, huge gashes in the wall!}

So, I've been on a mission to find a replacement chair for the rocking chair. I realllllly want a director's chair, but I seriously can't justify spending $80 on one from Pier 1... the reviews of the one they have at Wal-Mart are horrible, so I figured I wouldn't waste my money there.

I was just a-walkin' down the aisles at Target... you know, like every other day and spotted this little green folding chair:

 

Because all of my colors are green/pink/teal/orange, I was SUPER excited to find it! It was only $10! so even if it doesn't last super long I won't feel bad about it!

Of course... I can't just leave it as-is, so painting ensued! I taped off some chevron stripes - I've said it again and again..I'm not a measure-it kind of girl, I just eyeball it. If it's not perfect, ehh, I can cover it up somehow! Just ignore your twitching eyelid if you have the urge! hehe!

I sliced off the extra pieces where the tape crossed over with an Exacto knife, pushed down really well over the tape so to minimize leakage.

And began painting away!

Pulled the tape off..(see the few leaks..covered those buggers with dots and swirls! :)

And added some cutie little details!

I'm really happy with it! Because it is plastic.. I'm a teeeensy bit worried about peel-age. I've done a little "reserach" and Krylon has a clear coat spray paint that works on plastic. If that does well, I'm going to paint the seat part, too. I would be so sad though if my tush rubs off all the hard work I put into painting it! ;) I promise I'll let you know after I try it out! Anyone else have any advice??

While I was at it this week I *finally* made those crate seats!

I made 4 of them to go in my reading corner, super excited about the way they turned out!  

{If you want a great tutorial, check out Ginger's post!}

And also decorated these clipboards with this AWESOME chevron-in-my-colors Duck tape! woot woot! The only bad thing.. a whole roll only covered 3 clipboards. I need to snag another roll (found it at Michael's) to finish up the rest of them. I promise in person it really doesn't hurt your eyes like this picture does!