A cushy table? YES!

I love littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com. She inspires my pants off, no joke. Love that lady and she does all her cool junk with 3 little baby nuggets running around in a studio apartment in New York. Deserving of an award? I think yes. She is one of the best and best known bloggy ladies in all the land. So needless to say she inspired my lazy butt to do this next project because if it's good enough for her snazzy digs it's good enough for my messy suburban base model bad boy. I can only show you a few pictures of my new ottoman/cushy table because I'm at work (WHAT?!) and only have my cellular device.

Ottoman with the rest of the room!



Side view with seriously crappy lighting.

Here's the basics of what I did... I bought an old coffee table from KSL for like $25. It is solid oak and is super sturdy. I cleaned it up and spray painted the legs a dark brown. Then used a matress cover someone gave me as the foam. Spray adheasived the crap out of it and stuck it on. Then covered with Primer Print's cheveron pattern. I love this fabric so very very much. So the end result is the most comfy, squishy place to put your feet after a long day, for realz. Andy has now decided that other coffee tables are inferer for foot placement and must put a pillow on them before his feet go on top. Spoiled? Not one bit :).
On the job front, I bit the bullet and went back to the temp agency. I don't know why I act like it's a terrible thing. They are awesome to work with and have a really fast placement rate. I guess I just feel like I "failed" again at finding a job on my own . Anyway, I'm on a very very short assignment at the Art Institute of Salt Lake, like only 3 days. I'm filling in for the front desk manager that went on vacation. I feel like this placement is a good way to ease myself back into working. Going from waking up whenever I want to having to be at work by 7:30 is a hard ajustment for me (I'm not a morning person AT ALL). So I feel like it's good to start out somewhere that I kind of don't worry about my first impression because I know it will only be a few days and not a position that could "blossom" into something. No worries, the people are super nice, the experience is good, the work is easy, and I get paid to pintrest all day.
I hope everyone has awesome plans for the weekend, mine consist of a baby shower on Saturday that is going to be a bunch of fun! I might post pictures of the decorations and stuff on Monday. And OF COURSE, Harry Potter 7.2 tonight! I'm a nerd and I accept it.

IT'S ALIVE!

Hello friends and family! I am, in fact, still alive. I just lost my posting mojo for a while. But I'm here and ready to inform... Maybe entertain, you be the judge.

So last time I posted I told you about the sweet art project I did with the state shapes. Now I will show you how the whole thing came together. First I gathered a bunch of random frames from around my house, tj maxx clearence isle, and salvation army and started by laying them on the floor to find layouts I liked....

It started out something like this

Added a little more....

Changed it around...

And I still couldn't decide. So I made templates out of wrapping paper and taped them on the wall. That took FOREVER but it was a good way to "live" with a design without really committing. Since you know how I feel about committment. Anyway, I didn't totally love that design but I left it for a while 1. because I'm lazy, 2. because I couldn't decide what I liked best, and 3. because my wall looked like a giant candy cane, which is AWESOME! (The wrapping paper was from Christmas and was silver and red matallic, love!). People would come into the house and look at the wall and say things like "New art?", "Well that's interesting." and "What the hell, Stacie? Really?" My response... "I really like candy canes, DON'T JUDGE!". Anywho, after I played with the layout a little bit on the wall and on the floor again I figured out what I liked. (Please don't judge my crappy cell phone pictures)



End Result!

Here's what it looks like with my sweet new pillows and new wall color. LOVE IT! Who loves that $10 KSL reading lamp? I do, a lot.
I hope this fulfills all of your blogging cravings... Tomorrow, my coffee table ottoman project.