Craft Night

 I finally completed the first batch of wraps for the hospital.  And my 'I', I mean 'we'.  I had some wonderful neighbors and friends come over and we busted a bunch of wraps out.  We were able to accomplish a lot that night and my neighbor Krista and I were able to finish it all up.  We were able to make 82 wraps so far!  I am so excited. 

I have received a couple more donations and so will be one last trip Joann's next week to buy fabric.  I might have to beg a couple more friends to come and help out with the last batch of wraps.  I have been so truly humbled by the generous donations that people have made.  I think I cry every time I get a donation or see the projects people are working on for it.  I am so incredibly grateful for the kind hearts of so many people.

Sherrie and Krista... slaving away

Mary Jane was so great to pin for us

Emily sewing away!

My sweet friend Dani, made and sent these sweet little diapers all the way from Hawaii!  They are so tiny.  I love the card that comes with each diaper.

My curbside find

This is my curbside find.  Philly has this great tradition of of putting your junk on the curb before garbage day.  The garbage man will take anything, so if no one picks it up, then it at least gets hauled away the next day.  Many wonderful finds are on the curbs of Philly!  So, I saw this gem and immediately fell in love with it, it has fantastic lines.  Better yet, it was on my own street.  I grabbed my neighbor Amee and made her help me haul it back to my house.  I forgot to take a 'before' pic before I took it apart.

The 'work zone'

This was quite the project!  My wonderful neighbor, Krista, helped me do it-- so so grateful for her help!  First we primed it.  Gave it a couple coats of Behr 'Mongolia Blossom' white.  Sanded the last coat of paint with a 320 grade sandpaper to give it a nice smooth finish.  It was looking so great.  After advice from the web and Home Depot, we gave it a top coat of polyurethane.  BIG mistake!  It turned it yellow!  It was horrible.  NEVER top a white paint with polyurethane!  I wanted to cry.

yellowed polyurethane

 So, we got to start over!  We knew what we were doing the second time through so we were able to do it in one day.  We gave it a light sanding so the primer had something to stick to again.  Primed it, painted it, sanded it again.  And debated and debated about what to do about a top coat.  We tested Poly-acrylic out, made sure it was safe before we put it on the whole thing.  I love the Poly-acrylic!  So much better.

And the finished project.  I love the look and love the extra storage in my dining room.  I'm in love!