Friday, March 30, 2012

Before & After

Here I go again, showing off my latest project. Before you know it this is going to become my reupholstery blog. Sorry be such a show off, but when you finish a project this big and no one is home to see your handy work besides a 9 months old (that's right, I said 9 month old, crazy), its kind of anticlimactic. This chair has the best before and after - I love how dramatic the change is.
Before
AFTER!!!
I am really proud of this one. It turned out a lot better than my couch. I attribute that to 1. a little more experience under my belt. 2. my new staple gun. Seriously makes a HUGE difference how the fabric looks on the chair. It looks tighter (because it is), cleaner, and professional. Can I say that, or am I patting myself on the back a little too much here? Anyway, that staple gun was the best $140 I ever spent. It also sped up the whole process by hours and hours. With my couch, it probably took me two weeks to staple on all the fabric because I literally had to hammer each one in after I put all my body weight on my manual staple gun and the staple still only went half way in. My couch had over 2,000 staples, so, you do the math. Now it is a breeze, all my staples go in flush and exactly where I want them with barely any physical effort. I'm in heaven.
And I am really tempted to keep this chair - it is crazy comfortable and it happens to match my living room perfectly - but alas, I must sell it.....for millions!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Spring Break, Baby!

These are the days that I love having a teacher for a husband, the BREAKS. Spring break, fall break, christmas break, summer breaks. Lots of breaks - its awesome. It would be even more awesome if Steve still had all those breaks and we were living off more than a teacher's salary, to, you know, actually vacation.
So, this spring break, we pretended to ignore the teacher salary thing and go on a not free vacation (meaning not just going to Heber to visit the folks and call it good). Although we did go to Heber, we also went to the beautiful town of Greer, AZ and spent the night in a cute little cabin, went on a few nature hikes, cozied up next to the cute little fire in our room, and ate some expensively good food. I call that a real vacation. Plus Steve got to go fishing THREE different times - so needless to say (but I will) he was a happy guy, even though he literally didn't catch a single fish.
Behold, our travelog pictures......