The Weekend of the Chair

We've just started out setting up our home here in Grande Prairie and there are a ton of things that we need to get done. Getting things to sit in, sleep on, put stuff in and entertain ourselves and our cats has been one of our prime focuses. Luckily the few people that we know here have been good enough to help us out with bits and pieces that they don't need. Fred, my boss, had a couple chairs lying around which he could spare, so handed them to us.

Lacking in furniture as we are we decided to paint the chairs and get them into the living room. So Wen-shu and I headed off to the local walmart to buy some cheap fabric and spray paint. Around $10 later thought we were ready to go. So off to the basement (its -10 outside folks) to spray the chairs. Well, that didn't work so well and three quarters of a chair later we were both headache ridden from the fumes. Butter, our weird cat seemed to linger in the basement, taking hit after hit of the airbourne narcotics. Anyway, we gave up on the spray paint and went to the local totem to get some real paint. After a few coats of this and some hard work with a staple gun and the fabric we have transformed one chair. The first one is always the hardest, so it should get easier from now on in.
In case you are wondering why there is chinese writing all over the chair, I stole the picture from my loving wife's blog. She has all sorts of cool stuff about our place on there, so if you really want to know more about our day to day life here, thats were to look. And although it is all in chinese, the pictures are cool. Its fun to guess what she is writing about anyway.