Lots of Love still left in these old Pews!

Church pews are beautiful and are full of history both happy and sad. These benches have seen new life, couples recite their vows, friends, families and reletives paying respect to the dearly departed.... They have been loved by many church families over several decades. These beauties have seen better days it's true, but.....

Just because something has seen better days doesn't mean it's life is over..... Sometimes that sad dilapidated and old piece of furniture needs a simple face lift!! 

In the beginning these benches had no padding or fabric covers, they were bare.... Some other soul saw their need for revitalization and gave them new life with new padding and padding covers, but soon decades passed and those pews needed updating again.

So they were given away to some lucky soul who saw past their flaws to the possibilities that could be....... so they were cut in half....

New ends were traced out, glued together, cut out....

Sanded and stacked into a pile for later match ups...

Then they were sanded between each coat of paint.

Some were painted in serene colors...

Others were customized with hand painted details.

Some needed custom stencils made to replicate business logos...

Taken from business cards....

Painted in custom colors of light purple and green....

Designed into a stencil. Then painstakingly applied and painted. This pew is now a bench at a local daycare čenter, not only is it comfortable but it doubles as advertising for the daycare center logo!!!

Now this Pew is pretty with Custom Made Pillow Case Covers by Harts Custom Sewn Creations!

Or painted in Collegiate colors for those die hard fans!

Now there's more history left to be had on the seat of this old seen better days Church Pew! Let the front porch sharing, football watching, sweet tea drinking, old couple of love birds add to this old pews story!!

My first really Big Commissioned project!!

I've been sewing on and off for about 17 years, 8 years ago we bought this house and my project area grew, I now have a room dedicated just for sewing!! Yes, it has a futon and a TV in the room, the futon is so my hubby can sit and watch tv, while I sew. I enjoy having my hubby share my space while I'm creating! 

This new customer is a local daycare center to a worldwide supplemental insurance company here in town. The daycare center needs 137 curtains!! Thàts just a little overwhelming, but I can do it!! 

This is just a few of the spools of thread to help complete this project!! Love those colors!!