get ready to rock

I did this. And by that I mean Rob's Mom did it and I helped. Kind of. I think I may have hindered more than I actually helped. BUT look what we did!


Sara is 10 months old and we just got a rocking chair. Why didn't we get it sooner? Who knows. But Sara likes to be held/rocked to sleep (spoiled!) and the lack of a rocking chair was getting more and more difficult. SO we finally broke down and bought one. We wanted to get something "stylish", but didn't want to spend a ton of money, so we compromised and bought a second-hand basic glider but recovered the cushions in a fun print. It looks SO much better than the original fabric. I was too excited about recovering it that I forgot to take a "before" photo before we ripped the old fabric off, but here's a shot of the fabric sans chair.

BEFORE

AFTER!

Quite the improvement, don't you think?!

Sara seems to like it.

Sew Fun

A few of my gal-pals and I met at IKEA yesterday for some yummy Swedish lunch and to get fabric to reupholster an old rocking chair. First of all, did anybody else know that IKEA has fabrics? I mean, not just bedding and curtains and stuff, but actual bolts of fabric that you can purchase by the yard to sew anything you can dream of? Well they do, and after looking at them to help Brittany pick one for her new chair cover, I wanted to purchase a whole bunch and redo our whole condo with new drapes, pillows, bedspread, etc. Their fabrics are so fun and colorful!

After we found the perfect fabrics (the middle one in the stack above and some lime-green accent fabric) we proceeded to recover the chair. I just realized that I don't think we took any "before" pictures, but hopefully my friend will take some "after" photos because I think it turned out pretty darn cute! But that cuteness came at a price; we all worked on it from the time we got back from IKEA (about 1:00 maybe?) until 8:00 at night! It was a crazy insane all-day project! When Brittany's husband came home from work, we were still sewing away! But he was kind enough to stop at Little Caesar’s to get us all a yummy Hot-n-Ready pizza and cheese sticks. Yum! And the kiddos were kind enough to take nice long naps for most of the time, which was very convenient.

JoAnna did most of the work on her handy-dandy sewing machine while Brittany and I did our best to add impossible to work with green fabric that kept fraying all over the place to the buttons (that we later “tufted” onto the cushions), and also hand-sewing the tops of the cushions that the sewing machine had trouble with. So, my friend Brittany now has a new (and much hipper) cover for her rocking chair. Yay for IKEA fabrics and JoAnna’s sewing abilities! It was a fun day. I’m glad I could help out and spend the day hanging with my chicas!