Perfect Seat For A Princess

What do you get when you combine this $24.99 Ikea children’s tableWith these $12.99  Ikea children’s chairs? {oops, minus the animal appliques, couldn’t find a current Ikea picture without them}Well, I got this cute little chalkboard princess table and chairs!I thought I would share this table and chairs I did a couple of years ago for my favorite little girl Layla.  Her mom emailed me this picture she had seen on the internet she wanted to buy for Layla.  But  as it turned out, it was expensive and way out of her price range.Since I am a sucker for anything frilly, and my girls are all grown,  I decided to make Layla her very own table and chairs for her 1st birthday, and it was pretty darn simple and inexpensive!  So here is a short version of what I did, with not too many tutorial pictures of in progress {pre-blogging days, sorry}I painted the top pink chalkboard paint and added little decorative acrylic paint dots on the edge of the table. {if I would of  I had my cool expression machine back then, I could of come up with so many cool decorative vinyl decals for this area, oh well}  I didn’t want to add big bows to the sides, I knew from having kids that the bows would just get ripped off after a day.   So instead, I painted a small rosette from a stencil on all four corners of the table.Before I put the chair together, {you know how Ikea is, all in a flat box and you put together, luckily these were very simple to do} I took the seat and laid on to a 1″ foam pad and drew out the pattern right on to the foam, then cut the foam. I painted the two back skinny rods of the chair with green acrylic paint and added some white dots.  To make the bottom ruffle, I measured from the top of the chair seat to the bottom adding 1/2″ longer for the hem. I then measured the whole chair and doubled my measurement for the ruffling.  Once I sewed the hem and hand ruffled the fabric, I used my staple gun to attach the ruffle, then I using the same measurements , I cut the length in half and made the second ruffle and again attached it with my staple gun.I used spray glue to adhere the foam to the seat. I laid my fabric over the foam with plenty of extra to wrap around the sides and used my staple gun and stapled the fabric to the bottom of the seat.  To finish it off, I  hot glued some pre-made ruffle trim and marabou to cover my staples and some pretty pink silk fabric rosettes to the back side.Those cute crowns were actually hair combs that I disassembled from the comb and carefully flattened them and hot glued them to the back of the chair.  I drilled a hole on the top of each side of the chair and screwed pink curtain rod finials that I got from Target.I think it turned out pretty cute, and Layla just loves it!  She is now three and still uses it every day. I think there are so many cool variations that could be done with these table and chairs for both boys and girls.  All the cool cutting machines out there, stencils and cute fabrics to make the ruffles and flower rossettes, the possibilities are endless!  I am linking up to these fun parties!