a highchair makeover

I guess with this post I might as well announce that I'm pregnant.  We are expecting a little boy this fall and we're so excited!  I'm pretty sure everyone who looks at this blog already knows that though :)

 

Hubby is still in school so we are trying to be frugal (which is soooo hard!!  I want to buy all the cute baby things I see!)  I found this used highchair for cheap and decided to buy it.  The girl said it was in really good condition.  Well...when I went to pick it up I found out what condition it really was in.  First off, it was filthy.  Like didyouleavethisoutsidefor63years filthy?  And the material was a harder plasticky stuff and it had cracked and ripped in a few places.  So really, it was in pretty bad shape.  But here's a confession, I have a bad habit of not standing up for myself to strangers.  So I still bought it.  I had serious buyers remorse too.  But my mom reassured me that we would be able to get it cleaned up and looking great.  I literally took this thing outside and power washed it.  Like 4 times.  I was finally happy with the frame being clean and my mom and I went to the fabric shop.  I love how it turned out!  Let me put in a little disclaimer here.  I am NOT a seamstress.  My mom did most of the work on this thing, I pinned and gave opinions and helped where I could but without my mom, I probably would have trashed this thing and just ended up buying a different one.

 

Before.  The seat wasn't quite as ripped up when we got it but I forgot to take a picture so this is after we have started.

 

And After!  I love it!  I wanted to pick gender neutral colors so I can use it for future babies if we get a different gender one day. 

 

I don't really have a tutorial for this either.  I'm terrible I know, but since I don't really sew fancy things like this I have no idea what to tell you to do.  Luckily, someone else does though!  My mom and I loosely followed this tutorial.  We didn't do it exactly like she does but it helped to get a big picture and then adapt to our own needs.

 

Maybe next time I'll post about a receiving blanket I made Peanut all my by myself!  Then I can actually tell you how to do it :)

 

-Megan

DIY eyeshadow primer

How many of you have ever used eyeshadow primer?  Am I the only one who hadn't ever tried the stuff??  I have always wanted to but then I hear that if you want to use one you need to buy a higher-end brand and my curiosity ends at that.  My husband still has 5 years of school people!  We don't buy anything that's a higher-end brand.  If we did we'd have to eat the gum off the bottom of our shoes.  Then I found this blog.  First off, I fell in love with all of her tutorials.  I do NOT consider myself to be very good at hair and when I try something different with my makeup it almost always ends in a disaster that looks very much like what my 18 month old niece would create given paper and crayons in the colors puce, dirt, and dark dirt.  However, I decided to go out on a limb and try her makeup for every day (I believe she calls it her "mommy makeup").  It was a radical success!  Hubby loved it and I felt gorgeous all night!  I ran out of some makeup pretty soon after I started looking through her blog so when I went to buy new stuff I only bought stuff that she had used and loved.  Can I say again how much I love her blog?  I looooovvve it!  Anyway, I found this recipe to make your own eyeshadow primer and it only costs a few bucks so I figured I'd give it a try.  Boy do I love it.  First off, it was beyond easy and cheap to make.  Second off, it really works.  Now I know I don't have anything to compare with but let me just tell you why I love it.  I have pretty oily skin.  It's all good in the morning but by mid afternoon I usually want to put a light dusting of powder all over to mattify my face.  Eyeshadow is no exception.  I will have creases in my shadow way before being done for the day.  This primer has changed that!  I have worn it every day since making and I have never had creases!  Even the day that I had to get up early and didn't get in the shower until around 11:30 that night my eyeshadow still looked like I had just put it on.  It also helps with pigmentation.  I have to use less eyeshadow to get a darker or more dramatic look with the primer.  It really is just awesome.

Recipe for Eyeshadow Primer:

• 1/2 teaspoon all natural chapstick
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch
• 1 1/2 teaspoons liquid foundation

Run the chapstick under some warm water so it mixes well.  Mix all three ingredients in a clean container (I used a really small tupperware container so I had a good lid).  You're done!

I ended up mixing it all together and then microwaving it for like, 5 seconds so the chapstick was really mixed in.  The wax in the chapstick is also what is good about this stuff so I made sure to get one where wax was pretty high on the ingredient list.  I even used two different kinds of foundation because I was using an old one and it ran out so I just finished it off with my new stuff.



It looks like this!  Nothing special really.  I was super skeptical when I made it but like I said, it has transformed my eyes! :)

 

You can find her original post here.  She explains lots and the comments were pretty helpful.

 

Let me know if you try it and if it works for you.  I hope it does!

 

-Megan