I am not a jounalist...

By day, I am a structural engineer.  I used to work on buildings like this:

(This was one of my first assignments)

In Dec 2009, this career of pretty buildings came to a sudden halt.  

I am employed again but I work on big power plants.  The buildings I work on are not so pretty anymore, but the job is less stressful, so I love the trade.

I am also impatient.  I try to take my time, but yesterday when I posted this post I left off the bottom most part of the post.  HOW I worked with my mom to make it!  

I was interupted before I was finished, my mind started going blank, and my husband said it was time to leave  = wrap up the post.  I threw in the final picture and hit send.  

The Ugly continues...

 

As a reminder here is the ugly transformed:

Last year, my mom had Presidents Day Weekend off from work.  (This is for those lucky people who get more than 6-8.5 holidays a year).  To coincide, Hancock fabrics was also having a 50% off sale on all their clearance items.  I was browsing the fabric store, and found this corduroy upholstery fabric with a swirl pattern on it.  I liked the neutral tone, the modern swirl, and even more so the price.  At $1.50/yd.  you can recover an entire couch for less than a meal at Chili's.  Hallelujah!  With my new limited budget and over enhanced boredom.  This is just what I needed.  I took the remaining 6 yards on the roll and never looked back.  In the sewing world, this deal is one notch above robbery.

I lugged my mom's sewing machine over to my house, grabbed my laptop, and googled everything I needed to know about redecorating furniture and how to use a sewing machine.  After I bought two zippers and a small amount of 1/2 inch foam for the arm rests I spent around twenty dollars!  (Cheaper than Logan's on 2 for 14.95 night + tip to our waitress Tiffany, um we go there alot)

Since it is better to have more fabric than not have enough,  I whipped together some curtains to hang in the basement with the extra yardage.  One day I intend to embellish these, so they are not two dimensional.  

That day/idea has yet to come.

 Jennifer