Crazy Ambition

Do you ever get in those moods, that last about a week or perhaps months, where you seriously have no motivation to do anything productive? That was totally me last week. I was in a serious slump. Mostly I blame Downton Abbey (the Masterpiece Classic series on PBS). I heard about this show while watching the Golden Globes a couple weeks ago and was intrigued. The last week Netflix decided to add the first season to their Instant selection. So I killed my curiosity and watched the first episode, then the 2nd, then the 3rd, and so on until before I knew it I had watched all 7 episodes! In a matter of two days. After the season was over I felt a void. Until I discovered the 2nd season is airing right now and the episodes I have missed this far are available to watch on Masterpiece Theater's website! So then, naturally, I had to watch the 3 episodes from this season to get caught up. Can you see why I have been a trite unproductive? That show is straight up addicting.

Anyway, like I always do when I have been seriously lazy, I started to feel like a loser and decided I needed to do something productive AND ambitious.

So a couple of months ago I was in Heber and found this couch at the Catholic thrift store that I LOVED. I was not in love with the fabric, but it was the shape of the couch that won my heart. Plus it was in great shape and only $30.

I convinced Steve to let me take it home so I could reupholster it. If any of my old roommates are reading this they are probably laughing. I tried to reupholster a couch before and NEVER finished it. The back of it I just couldn't figure out, so it was one of those couches that had to be up against a wall.

Anyway this time I got a little education about the subject under my belt. Not much, okay only about an hour. I went to a free Q&A class a month ago at Home Fabrics. So I have a little know-how, and the rest I will just figure out.

Saturday I decided to finally start this huge project. I bought the fabric and the tools and started to deconstruct that couch. Not even a quarter of the way done of just taking off the original fabric. I will probably be working on this sucker for the next few months.

Here is the before picture:

Potential, right? I hope so, because I am about to invest the next two months of my life to this thing.