Lay Your Head Down

Recently I've been noticing some cool throw and accent pillows around the land of design. I saw these on an Etsy tweet the other day and they have been stuck in my mind ever since. I am really starting to like the sepia or neutral tone with one pop of color similar to the crosses on these pillows.






How about this chair and deer head print and rug and throw and everything else in this picture.

Gettin' Thrifty With It

So last weekend I went with my Mom to her local Habitat For Humanity Restore. I went with some reservations wondering what I was going to walk into. I was pretty blown away at the stuff they had. Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of useless "junk" but amongst that junk was thrifty finds that could be cleaned up and put into a space immediately. Here are a few of the things I found, and you know what, I am actually getting into this whole "old becoming new" theory. It's kind of....no it is really fun.

These 2 chairs caught my eye as a possible recover project. Both were $13 each. I like the legs and detail in the second pic.

This console had a record player and stereo in it. They weren't sure if it worked or not but with a little homework and some teak oil this thing would have rocked. Last figure they gave me was $20, pretty confident I could have got them down to $10. I can't get this piece out of my mind even though I'm looking for a more sliding door with shelving option. How cool would it be to get the stereo and record player working again though.



These two chairs were perfect, clean, and ready to go. Loved them, just not sure were I would put them. For $6 each I'm definitely going back for them. Sorry Misty, I dig them too much not to have them live with us for a while.

Dude....Nice

This pretty much sums up the way it feels to build and work with wood. I think for this year I am going to focus on learning the old styles of building, less paint and more grain. We'll see how it goes.

Enjoy -

Grain & Gram: Blair Sligar, Woodworker from Grain & Gram on Vimeo.

Welcome To HELLTRACK

I remember constantly nagging my Mom to rent this movie every time we were are at our little country market in the town I grew up in. The kind of market that has a film of dust and stale cigarette smoke smell on everything from old to new. The "VCR" rental wire rack in the corner of the market where they had about 16 Fatal Attractions, 9 Top Guns, and the most glorious BMX/Freestyle movie ever RAD. I remember getting home and after watching the opening and ending credits I would immediately go out and grab my hot pink Torker 280 Air with white Skyway mags and pink matching Tioga tires and ride all afternoon. Trying to emulate everything the pros did in those clips, from the way they dressed to the way they would over dramatically perform a trick. Here's to 80's freestyle at it's finest....CRU is RAD.

Top Guns

This reminds me of fighter jets blasting at each other like on the movie Top Gun. Crossing paths, huge dives, engaging fire, and finally ejecting. These two blow me away.

Noise Pollution

My Aunt gave me this guitar and amp that she had had for a long time but never played it, pretty cool gift in my opinion. It's a Crate practice amp but the cabinet is made from a hardwood that has a waxed finished that gives it a super cool retro look. It also came with this canvas cover which explains why the amp looks brand new. When I hooked it all up it would make a horrible crackling, static ridden noise probably from just sitting around for years. I was playing the guitar one day and looked at this lonely amp that was just stuck in a corner behind the door. I wondered how it could be used to show it off but was unsure of how to make it work. I had built a simple side table that was open underneath for the possibility of making it a modern nesting table, just never got around to adding the nesting pieces. Curiosity then set in. Maybe that table could slide over the amp and Voila!! It's like they were made for each other.

Snow Daze Revisited

Ki likes when I do stuff with skulls, maybe its the rock n roll metal gene I passed down to him. I hate hate hate glitter, but these glitter glue pens were kind of cool and I enjoy art projects with him, so I sucked it up and painted with him. He made everything from fighting pirate boats to diamond eating fish. I'll add his pieces when they are fully dry and no glitter flakes off.

This Little Light Of Mine

I bought this swag light a little while ago with thoughts of a redo. It is made of a lightweight canvas and had a horrible paisley pattern on it. I know what your thinking, why would I paint over a cool paisley print, because the colors were horrible that's why. Hideous bright lime green, hot pink, some yellows, and creams. I wish I had a before pic, but you are going to have to trust me. I started with a gray primer to kill the colors and followed with some vertical dry brushing to try and achieve a weathered wood look. It goes well with the new wall and the other changes that are taking place in that room. As always it looks better in person than in the pic.

I Find This Fitting

Should have listened to this yesterday while moving mounds of snow. The Walkmen - While I Shovel The Snow.

Snow Daze

So here we are on the day after the snowtorious b.i.g.  That's just one of the many names given to the recent  blizzard that moved through kc. My work was canceled due to the conditions of the roads so it was only fair to keep Ki home. Last weekend I rebuilt our closet shelving to make it more usable and to hopefully keep it more organized. One of the many bags found had this shirt in it that we had bought Ki last spring. It was a cool shirt that came with some markers so he could design a one of a kind. What a better time to find it and what a better time to break it out than on a day that you can't do anything else.