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I’m trying a theme this week; we’ll see how interesting it is.  The theme is fabric: I’ll be doing closeups of some different types of woven & knit materials.

Today’s fabric is the cotton webbing I am using to redo the seats of our dining room chairs.

I’m replacing the old blue seat tape on our Shaker-style chairs. I origially built these chairs (from a kit) 16 years ago and the original tape is a bit the worse for wear; I’m also regluing some of the joints. The new color goes better in the new dining room.

Today I built a table for our porch out of leftover deck boards.

I feel like I’m in Sleeper.

 
Yes that’s a quarter.

I hope the text isn’t indicative of the ingredients.

I’m in San Diego for business. The drink napkins at this restaurant display one of Lis’s favorite jokes.

Here’s a crocus aching to bloom.

I borrowed Greg’s miter saw to do the miter cuts for the picture frame moulding for the dining room project.  Without it I’d still be cutting.  Thanks Greg!

 
Bonus picture: the finished product! Phone photo does not do it justice. Already it feels like it should have been this way all along.

It hasn’t even really started to warm up yet and already it’s hairball season for poor Parker.

Here you’ll see the final color coat on the upper part of our dining room walls.  Lis picked out this color and it’s quite striking. I used Benajmin Moore’s new Aura paint, which is expensive but covered in this color in one coat! Worth every penny.