VIctory is Sweet

If you all could see me now (all three of you who read this) you would be witnessing my victory dance in all its glory. Steve thinks I am annoying - but I just can't help myself! I sold my couch today, hooray! I had it on craigslist for a week and still hadn't had anyone come and look at my couch (I had plenty of scammers though) and I was getting sad and moping around. Today was my lucky day though. A nice young LDS couple with a little 1 year old boy and a little girl on the way are now housing my couch. I hope they love and care for it as much as I did :) I was able to sell if for $550 - needless to say I made a pretty good profit. Enough to buy a nice staple gun, which is all this cowgirl really cares about. I am already working on another chair I got for pennies at Goodwill last Saturday at "half off" day ( I may have had to elbow a few people to get to it first, but I came out victorious in the end). I am really excited about this chair, the fabric I am using is awesome. If you can't tell that I am totally obsessed with all things upholstery right now, I am. So, with great effort I shall talk about something other than the fact that I sold a couch today - I know its really not that interesting to anyone but me. Nevermind. I can't. I can't talk about anything else, so I'll just stop - talking that is.

Done and Done

Holy cow. I feel amazing. I finished it, a few hours ago, and it turned out great, in my opinion. The "it" I am referring to is "this" couch. Remember?

Time for the big reveal. "That" couch is now..."this" couch!

Viola!

Pretty great right?

So I learned a couple this (actually LOTS of things) during the process of reupholstering this couch over the last month.

1. I LOVE reupholstering. I thought I might hate it because the task was so long and daunting; but really I enjoyed it, a lot.

2. I don't just love reupholstering, I love creating and making ugly things pretty. It is crazy fulfilling.

3. Sewing box cushions is really hard, can I just say that? Yes, I can. Hands down, hardest part of the whole shebang. Just saying.

4. I'm addicted. I want to do this again. Soon, real soon. SO....I have dreamt up a game plan. I kept thinking in my little brain how cool it would be to make money doing this, seeing that I had so much fun and all. Game plan: sell this couch on craigslist. Take profit from said couch and invest in PROPER tools for reupholstering (no more manual staple gun - seriously need a pneumatic one). And here is the best part, SHOP for gently used furniture. That means, yardsales, thrift stores, craigslist. Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love my yard sales and thrift stores. As a job? How incredible would that be? So the key word up top there was "dreamt". We'll see if anything comes of this - but I'm going to give it a go!

(I currently have my ad up on craigslist, and let me tell you, I feel lame. If feels weird trying to sell people on your product, I feel downright cheesy.)