I have finished my chair! It turned out to be a bit of an undertaking, but I followed this simple tutorial from creative maven and it turned out great. The cushion was tough, but I made it work.  It is definitely not perfect, it’s actually a bit puckery.  But oh well, it holds your ass.  I want to paint the legs at some point.  I probably should have done that first…oops.

I chose an avocado green chenille for the fabric. I think it goes really well with the other furniture in our living room, which is where it lives now.  It actually serves the very noble purpose of hiding our rediculously oversized subwoofer.  It is successfully doing the job of not letting our living room look like an electronics lover’s paradise.

I feel like the corner needs something else to round it out and make it look put together and finished.  However, that’s another project for another day though.

I have some great plans for this chair. I acquired it from a friend and can’t wait to recover it. Once it is finished it will live in the corner of our living room that has been rather vacant since moving into our house almost a year ago.

Okay, so I am all for “reuse, reduce, recycle.”  I recycle what I can, sometimes I even stick extra stuff in there to see if they’ll take it.  I compost all my kitchen scraps.  I try really hard not to be wasteful.  Not only because I believe in it, but also because I don’t like to waste things, especially when it can save me money.  

But has the urge to better our planet gone too far?  As I was reading through my various blogs this morning I stumbled upon a very disturbing post.  I saw this and thought “What the crap?  Really?”  Wearing a jacket made out of Capri Sun wrappers is just not right.

So, being as disturbed as I was I looked into this issue some more.  Turns out there is a company that takes recycled food packaging and turns them into purses and such.  And for all you crafties out there, you can turn plastic grocery bags into yarn.  I also read about a couple from New Zealand that generated only ONE BAG OF TRASH in 2008! 

While I am very encouraged by the enthusiasm of others to do more, I still would not wear a Capri Sun Jacket.

I have been feeling the itch to work with my hands lately. Scrap-booking hasn’t been doing it for me, so I decided to take on a large crocheting project. I have decided to make my first afghan. I was a little bit discouraged at first. I have never tackled anything more than a scarf done in simple double crochet. But, I taught myself a new stitch and I am soldiering on. Hopefully I can actually find time to finish it before summer and be able to cuddle up with it. I will post a picture when I get a little bit more of it done.