No recipe today. I didn’t make any interesting food over the weekend.
Penelope is obsessed with dogs. She asks every neighbor with a canine if she can babysit their dog. This weekend she built a little house for one.
We have this deal that she’ll get a dog when she’s 12 years old. And every day she looks at me, stretches tall and says, “I’m bigger now. Can I have a doggy?”
We have these floor mats. She insisted on building a fort out of those mats for her new dog. You wouldn’t believe how hard she cried when Felix pushed it apart.
We got these mats in California for free from a neighbor. I recovered only three of them and lost interest/energy. I didn’t even recover them so the covers could be washed. So I’m scheming on recovering them. I think I’m more patient and better at sewing now. I just need to find the right print/fabric that will go with our house.
Which reminds me . . . I’m heading to LA at the end of the month! I’m going with my friend Mim and a bunch of other sewing bloggers to hit up the fabric district. I can’t wait! I hope to find some great yardage for these mats there.
Do you have half-finished projects lying around your house that have aged so poorly you have to just start over again? This is just one of many around my house.
More than one! The worst is a chair that I’m partway through reupholstering. Not only did I bite off more than I can chew, skillwise, but I stained the wood black and am currently getting rid of anything black in the house. Maybe if I leave it long enough I’ll like black again?
Jealous of your trip to LA! If you find any shops that carry leather, please post! I only got into sewing a while back when I lived in NYC and certainly didn’t take advantage of all the fabric and notions stores there.
I have some fairly good quality foam and am wondering: to make mats like that, would you end up with a better product if you wrapped the foam in some kind of batting first? I think to soften the edges and let the fabric sit a little tighter. I saw a tutorial a while back for a child’s cube/ottoman that used that technique.
Gosh, don’t you wish it were socially acceptable for adults to make forts? I just think they are so cool!
Ha! There are more half-finished projects than I can count in my house. Like that child-size metal folding chair that I pulled apart a few weeks ago to recover…
Penelope is so sweet. I love that you have an age set for getting a dog. Only a few more years, huh? ;)
I thnk we should have a half-finished project party.