A "New" Highchair for Caleb Jr.

One of the girl's that has gotten picked up on our Sunday School bus since she was a wee little girl recently had a baby. Her uncle happened to find this old highchair somewhere and asked her if she wanted it.  She replied, "Sure, Kammy can do something with it".  I groaned.  Just a little.   I tried to convince her that it was distressed and that look was "in".  But she wanted nothing to do with the shabby look.  Once I got going however.... it turned out to be a pretty fun project!

First I just sanded it down good, then touched up all the black and painted over the gold.  I was going to just refinish the wood parts, but there were some doozy stains and if I would have kept sanding, little junior would have been eating on a tray with the thickness of a toothpick.  I had absolutely no plan in my mind, I just started painted and and as I painted, stuff came to my into my brain and yeah, that's how I usually work.  Just start and let the juices flow as I work.  I rarely start out with the picture of an end result in my noggin'.

I added plaster of paris to my blue and light green paint because I wanted those areas to be super duper durable.  If you've had kids, you know how hard they are on highchairs.  What?  A a spoon?  It's for mashed peas?  No it's not, it's for tray banging, Mommy!

Without the tray......

Yes, my letters are slightly off.  Oops.  I polyurathaned it (yes, that's a verb) and had junior's parents over for Sunday dinner to give it to them today, but I didn't send it home with them.  I decided it needs another coat of poly.  No telling how hard of a spoon drummer Junior is going to be.

 Giveaway going on this week until 8/20.  Click HERE for your chance to win a pair of Shabby Chic S&P Shakers from Huckleberry Vintage.

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