Sentences with phrase «of old chairs»

Extend the life of old chairs with slipcovers made of orange, pink, and yellow pattern fabric.

I had two of these old chairs with a neutral fabric on them.

Gail of My Repurposed Life revamped a pair of old chairs by adding a bench seat and a few coats of chalk paint.

I might even recover one of our old chairs in one of the designs.

I love that chair in the back, reminds me of the old chairs one of my great aunts used to have in her house.

It's sad that I'm not good at DIY but I want to recycle some of our old chair.

Wreath Out Of Old Chair Spindles - Old Balusters and spindles can be found at flea markets, antique stores, and even garage sales.

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The news was particularly surprising, considering Klein herself was a chair of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) that last year supported an anti-fraud intitiative backed by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), «the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection.»

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Representative Trey Gowdy, the 49 - year - old from South Carolina chosen by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to chair the panel, is a Christian conservative elected to Congress in 2010 on the wave of the Tea Party movement.

His parents divorced, and Flanagan married Allan Markin, then chair of Canadian Natural Resources and part - owner of the Calgary Flames, when Pashak was eight years old.

But all that most people saw when they looked at the magazine cover was a fully - clothed boy of about four or five years old standing on a chair to breastfeed.

You can take a cue from the search engine giant and use a large sofa, or try smaller «hobbit hole» spaces such as enclaves with padded benches, acoustic couches, a long communal table for lunch or telecommuters, the modern version of old - school desk attachments to rolling chairs, and general seating that helps employees feel comfier.

Still, the president might be wary of passing on the chance to nominate the first female Fed chair — and Summers, in particular, has a bit of a reputation as a member of the old boys club.

It is one of Canada's most stalwart businesses with a nearly century - old tried and tested business model, but Loblaw executive chair Galen Weston and the company's chief executive, Vicente Trius, are willing to go all in on a hunch that... Continue reading →

That is, in fact, its whole raison d'être — a high - stakes game of musical chairs in which family members and executive are scrambling for a place in 93 - year - old Sumner Redstone's estate plan.

In the years I served on and even chaired commissions for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), some commissioners regularly vilified the «old dragons» who haunted successors by serving on boards.

«It's the same old argument: not being able to charge commissions limits choice and prevents the small investor from receiving financial advice,» says Dave O'Brien, principal, O'Brien Financial Planning, Richmond, Va. and chair of NAPFA's public policy committee.

Many of these titans of industry are products of the fraternity culture: Billionaire hedge - fund manager Stephen Mandel, who chairs Dartmouth's board of trustees, was a brother in Psi Upsilon, the oldest fraternity on campus.

«In 2003 (when Mike was just 25 years old) I was serving as the Chair of the Business Division and I invited Mike to teach a class.

«We're not just putting higher - octane fuel in an old clunker of a tax car; we've proposed to drive a newer tax car that can beat and win against any country in the world,» Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), who chairs the tax - writing Ways and Means Committee, said.

Before proceedings began on Saturday morning, the 69 - year - old former Toronto lawyer (disbarred) placed hundreds of legal - sized printouts urging full adoption of the Leap Manifesto on empty folding chairs.

I look forward all day to this moment, the moment when she begins to settle and we find our way to the creaky old rocking chair in the corner of the room to page through these old favourites one last time.

The room was old and small, the chairs were scratchy, the window faced only the early spring streets of Edmonton with winter's left behind gravel piled in the gutters.

Every time I hear it, I get an image of an inlecdibry old and creepy man, eyes glinting as he rocks in a chair, staring directly at the camera as the scene pulls back to reveal him sitting inside the house from the Black Sabbath album cover.

The cross is the version of a 2 thousand year old electric chair.

This one moment when you're sitting at an old dairy farm, watching your son lick a strawberry ice cream cone, the back of your thighs are stuck to the chair, and he offers you a taste, and you slurp the half - melted sides, and you are tasting something vital, it's so hot outside, he's got strawberry ice cream on his ears, and you lick him clean with your own tongue, he's laughing.

A few of the old venerables, like committee chairs Ike Skelton (Armed Services) and John Spratt (Budget) were not so fortunate.

Several old upside - down wood chairs, and one upside - down wood rocker were jammed into a pile of burlap bags, boxes and an odd assortment of gardening tools, newspaper - wrapped unknowns and you - name - its that I didn't recognize.

Akira, if Gambling is not sin then Catholic ism is just a religion of convenience Alias, I still think it would be fun to see old guys pushing other guy off the chairs or accidently sitting on someones laps, umm something like a scene from movie called «it's mad mad mad mad world»

You sat in the corner of the fluorescent chain restaurant while the older two balanced precariously on those tall bar chairs, Evelynn hollering for more of your ham sandwich from her highchair, we were all windswept and alive as birth.

Behind him, although taller and two years older, his sister walked slowly and edged backward to a chair, sat down, and stared at the toes of her black patent leather shoes.

This idea has been robbed of it's force by the silly caricatures like Peter as comical gatekeeper and people floating on clouds holding harps, and God as an old bearded fellow sitting on a big chair..

After I sat down, being all in confusion, like a drowning man that was just giving up to sink, and almost in an agony, I turned very suddenly round in my chair, and seeing part of an old Bible lying in one of the chairs, I caught hold of it in great haste; and opening it without any premeditation, cast my eyes on the 38th Psalm, which was the first time I ever saw the word of God: it took hold of me with such power that it seemed to go through my whole soul, so that it seemed as if God was praying in, with, and for me.

Other installments include a briefcase used to address obesity in America, a white picket fence intended as a statement on the American Dream and a «MTA chair» representing the loss of New York's old wooden subway benches.

Pope Benedict has indicated clearly that he believes we should receive Communion with great reverence, preferably kneeling - but no more powerful message about that could be given than the sight of John Paul, frail and in obvious pain in his illness and old age, struggling out of his chair and on to his knees to receive his Saviour.

I love it when instead of being stuck in the kitchen while everyone else mingles, I pile the appetizers on the island in my kitchen and everyone sits in the old, gigantic, overstuffed chairs that are in my kitchen instead of a breakfast table.

Collected, our hearts thunk in unison surrounded by tall backed chairs romance novels old copies of Bon Appetit and sleeping strangers with coats for blankets.

So dust off the old porch chairs and dig your picnic blanket out of the linen closet because when it comes to languidly drinking wine outside, there is no time like this weekend.

Each of Blue Chair Bay Rum's six varieties, White, Coconut, Coconut Spiced, Banana Vanilla, and Banana Rum Cream, is 100 % beach - made and mellowed in casks at one of the oldest, most respected distilleries in the Caribbean.

We re-covered the banquettes that had been there forever, and the chairs with real leather cause they were kind of naugahyde or something: When they got old, they would just crack and they would tape them back together.

I crawl out of chairs with the speed and agility of a 90 year old woman.

Another bunch of whites, who didn't know either group and didn't want to, was caught up; two people were knocked unconscious, one of them a 23 - year - old college student, Barbara Steele, who was struck by a chair and would receive six stitches near her left eye.

He even used his left foot, perhaps in honor of his old friend Lefty Driesell, who once destroyed a chair with a swift kick during this same tournament.

Now the two of them, Tweed and Papa, who sits in his chair like a busted old jazz musician, torn around the edges but straight with dignity, spend much time together in Papa's living room.

Or so people thought until last Saturday night's breakthrough by another tiny (4» 8») 13 - year - old, Naomi Nari Nam of Irvine, Calif. «I've been around so long, I'm not easy to impress,» said former U.S. Figure Skating Association president Morry Stillwell, «but before she had even finished, I was jumping out of my chair.»

I imagine the golfer, who is not identified, to be John D. Rockefeller or some other captain of industry, but that may be because Rockefeller appears elsewhere in this book as a 91 - year - old with a golf club, seated on a chair at his private golf course in Ormond Beach, Fla..

We enjoyed a pleasant, sunny day in the fairytale town of Heidelberg, hiking up to the castle on the hill (for those who don't appreciate the challenge of pushing a buggy uphill, there is a chair lift to the castle) and exploring the little cafes and shops in the old town.

Today I caught my five - year - old daughter in her bedroom jumping from the windowsill to the top of her chest of drawers, to her spinning egg chair.

Or when I'm trying to get my oldest out the door in the morning for school, and the phone is ringing and the baby is falling out of its high chair.