My First Mod Podge Project! My first post!

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I'm glad you're here.  I have started this blog so I can keep my sewing/creating addiction separate from my family life.  Well, that's the plan anyway.  We'll just see how well that goes.

I have to admit, I've been pinning a lot of Mod Podge projects lately, but I have been too chicken to try it. (not sure what "pinning" is? Check out the Pinterest button on the sidebar => )

I bought a couple of stools from IKEA for the girls that I jumped around on at the store and found them to be VERY sturdy.  They were completely naked wood, so I thought it would be a great first Podge proj. ;)

I picked out some funky fabric for the steps, and I was even going to podge some solid fabric on the legs but I decided to paint them after getting the steps done (that would have taken a ton of Podge, which I don't have the extra $$ for!)  Here goes...

I put a layer of podge down on the wood, and laid the fabric over top making sure to get all the air bubbles out.  I didn't take pics of every step... remember, I'm new at this...

Then I put a layer of podge over top to "seal" the fabric.  I was assured it would dry clear.

Around the corners!

Next I did the little steps.  It was a little more difficult to podge the fabric around the corners, but I figured it out.  The big steps had dried a little sticky, but hopefully that will work itself out.  I also wouldn't use newspaper next time, I had to use a baby wipe to get news print off of some of the ice cream cones. :(

Same steps, podge the wood then podge overtop.  Make sure to get out all the bubbles!

Next came the paint.  I decided to use the hot pink paint from Punky's room (sorry for the pic quality- I had to paint at night).  The naked wood soaked up the color really well.

All done!  Time to assemble!  Thankfully this was one of IKEA's easier set of instructions - if you have purchased items from there you know it can be very annoying trying to figure out the directions using only their illustrations.  Would it cost them THAT much more to print words too??

Anyway, here's the stool naked, from the IKEA site:

And here is my version!  

What do you think??  Punky liked it so much she asked to use it while watching Wallace and Gromit.  

Mermaids and Barbie... what could be better???

Pigeon is waking up from her nap.  I guess project time is over!  Until next time!