Cool stool.

This is old news, having happened back at the tail-end of August, but I've not blogged on it, so here goes.  Bought a piano stool (ex-display) for an absolute crazy-bargain price (like £140 off or something) but the shop was worried about the state of the cover. 

















"You may need to re-cover it" they advised.  What a fab idea.
So I bought some music notes fabric from Amazon (about £6.50 for twice what I needed).
Then I cut the fabric in half.
I unscrewed the padded seat from the main body of the stool

















I stapled the fabric onto the seat.

















I screwed it back on to the stool

















And here are the boys, performing a stool test (I had to get that gag in somewhere...)

Place setting name cards.

So, here's a quick little post about some name labels.
It was Anna's parents' Ruby Wedding anniversary recently.  We were tasked with the production of name labels for the place settings at the sit-down meal.
So I pottered off to some shop (the Range, perhaps?) and bought some cards, some little ruby red sticky 'stone' things (I'm sure there's a technical term) and some sticky cork hearts.

 Sadly, there weren't enough sticky cork hearts in the shop, and they were a bit big, so I had to chop every single one into four little hearts (thus the blade in the picture - a fiddly job if ever there was one...)
But here's what they looked like in the end.  (Except they didn't all have the name Anna on).