Bad Girl Chair

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Quite a while ago, I posted questions regarding the "bad girl chair" I was building for my little girl who is really showing her ass through the "terrible 2" phase of her life.

And now, as promised, I'm posting pictures.




The Photos:





(this handprint is just to cover a particularly unsightly knothole)

The Process:
*Find scraps of wood in parent's garage.
*Elist the assistance of wonderful husband to hold wood steady while I used power tools (RAWR) on an unsteady cutting surface (the base of my bird cage).
*Cut wood without cutting off any vital body parts (woot).
*Sand all pieces of wood so it doesn't splinter into my daughter's precious posterior.
*Hammer legs of chair to seat of chair because I can't find the electric screwdriver.
*Dad comes home and gives me the electric screwdriver from his car and makes my life a lot easier (yay, dad).
*Finish screwing all wood pieces together.
*Sand finished product.
*Stain chair.
*Search through stored "outgrown daughter items" for pair of shorts I can paint.
*Place discovered shorts onto volleyball and roll in blue housepaint.
*Get the volleyball to "sit" on the bad girl chair and leave a lovely assprint.
*Enlist help of daughter to put handprints on the chair in the right location.
*Laugh at daughter who saw the red handprint and exclaimed "I popped it on the heinie!"
*Spray finished product with a million coats of polyurethane.

The Action Shot:

I had to explain to her so many times that this one time, she was just a good girl sitting on her chair so I could take her picture. She wasn't really a bad girl this time, but I wanted her to give me her "sad face". I gave her a cookie after this as a bribe for forgiveness. lol.