Last Saturday, I was shopping at Target and came across an adorable table cloth by Dwell Studio.  I love Dwell Studio!  I love our table and would never dream of putting a table cloth on it and cover up it’s beautiful wood.  It’s so yummy!

However, I adored the design on the table cloth, that I didn’t need, so I put my brain to work and came up with a way to put it to use.  We just purchased a new ultra comfy couch from Pottery Barn and it is in need of some pillows.  What a wonderful fabric to snaz it up.  Just one problem….I don’t really sew that well, but my mother-in-law does.

So, I left Target with a round table cloth in hand and proceeded to call my mother-in-law.  She agreed to help me with this little project that same afternoon.  Wicked Awesome!

I headed out to her house with the pillows I wanted to recover and the table cloth I wanted to cover them with.  And presto change-o three hours later (after a while spent deciding on how to layout the pattern) I had new pillows. Pretty sweet, ehhh!?!

Thing is….I decided that I like the newly recovered pillows better on our club chairs.

What do you think?

It’s here, it’s really here.  Pottery Barn finally called last week and delivered our couch.  Although the color may be lack luster let me tell you that we tested many colors and fabrics before we settled on this one, and the Brushed Canvas in Walnut was a perfect camouflage for our two dogs massive amounts of fur they shed each day.   The dogs are not allowed on the furniture and we still find plenty of fur on the cushions.  It’s chaos I tell you.  The color of the couch is a nice neutral to our boldly green walls.  I think with a few colorful pillows added to the mix it will really look nice.

The picture below is before I ironed the slipcovers.  I have since ironed them and put them on properly and it looks even more wonderful.

Anywho….when Derek opened the door for the delivery guys to bring in our new family member he was met by a man standing with red roses in his hand.  Derek asked the guy if this was the most awkward part of each delivery.  The man answered YES.

The rose is part of what PB calls their White Glove Delivery.  Two delivery men come to your home with your new furniture with you guessed it, white gloves, and totally set up your new furniture.  This is accompanied by a hand written note from a PB employee (not really certain who) and a rose.  I think the rose is typically for the woman of the house, but occasionally they get awkward situations like the one today with Derek, when the lady of the house is not at home.

Did I mention that this has to be the most comfortable couch in the world?  Well, I meant to.  When you sit on this thing it’s like melting into a cloud.  Really!  You just m-e-l-t.  Derek and I honestly considered sleeping on the the couch together the 1st night.  This couch is deep enough for two adults to lay all the way across at the same time without the risk of one of them teetering on the edge and falling off.

Since we were having our hardwood floors refinished and purchased a new couch we decided it was a good time to say goodbye to our old 1/2 eaten couch and chair.   We decided to keep the love seat and move it upstairs to the office, but not before we swapped out the ripped cushions for the few remaining decent ones on the couch.  The couch, armchair, and ottoman got moved out to the curb for trash pickup.  Since these were so ratty and 1/2 eaten we figured not even the Goodwill would take these bad boys off our hands, so we then had the idea to try and re-purpose as many of the materials from the couch and armchair as possible.

Derek and our friend Jonathan love using the fire pit in the backyard and are always looking for a fresh source of wood to burn.  So the wood frame was intended to meet that demise, and I was planning on using the stuffing from the torn cushions to make throw pillow inserts for the new couch.  Well, it began to rain the day of, and the guys scrapped the idea of chopping up the frame of the couch for firewood.  I mean on a Saturday afternoon when they could be inside playing xbox and having a beer; who in their right mind would pick standing out in 40 degree weather, in the rain, and try to chop  a couch in half?  Well at least I got to steal some stuffing before the boys hauled our beloved, used, and abused couch and chair to the curb.  Goodbye Mr. Couch.  You were a good couch and you will be missed.  Thanks for all the years of giving us a place to sit, and for Derek and Cohen to nap.

Since we are still waiting for our NEW purdy couch to arrive we wanted something to sit on while we wait.  We decided to venture out the Pottery Barn Outlet to look for arm chairs.  Well as luck would have it they had nothing that we wanted in the seating department, but as we usually do we wandered over to the rug section to peruse the goods.  Look what we found!  We found this 5×8 wool rug for only $99.00.  SCORE!  I think this rug retails around $180-$200.

P.S. – We found out that our new couch won’t be in until around February 15th.  Ahhhhhhhh!

Wrigley was a rescue dog we adopted from a GSD Rescue called, Mid-South Shepherd Rescue.  To my dismay, I found out recently that this remarkable and admirable organization had to stop accepting dogs.  You see this GSD rescue/adoption effort was funded and operated by one very kind-hearted woman, Pepper Stidmon.  Pepper helped save the lives of and find permanent home for over 400 GSD in the Mid-South area.  One of my friends helped out MSSR by occasionally offering foster housing to dogs waiting adoption.  Since Pepper operated the program from her home; there was no way she was able to house every dog waiting to be adopted.  So, people like my friend offered up their homes while these sweet animals healed, underwent various treatments (medical & mental), or simply waited to be adopted.  MSSR did not have a fancy kennel.  Every dog that was part of this program was placed in loving foster homes until they could be adopted.  I was told by my friend that he fostered one dog that was adopted by a family in Connecticut.  Can you belive that….freakin’ Connecticut!

Wriggs was a scrawny, bony, boob-a-licious little thing when we adopted her.  She nursed 7 puppies for 2 weeks under a trailer in West Memphis, AR.   We were able to adopt her once all of her puppies were weaned…that’s why I say she was boob-a-licious.

After this little girl broke out of one crate,  chewed her way out of another, and destroyed numerous items around the living room; she went a few weeks without destroying a single thing.  IS IT REALLY OVER?  NO!  (For whatever reason only items in the living room were on her menu)  Wrigley never disappoints.  We came in one day and a she decided to eat some of the cushioning on the arm of the couch, and the next day all of the cushioning was off of the arm.

A few days later, she began eating the cardboard backing that the padding was wrapped around, and chewing on the wood frame.  I hunted down some bitter spray and lacquered the couch with the stuff.  She stopped eating the couch.  VICTORY!!!  To prevent that nasty chewing when I put up the Christmas tree last year; I hosed down that tree too.  After putting ornaments on the tree, I made the mistake of touching my finger to my lips, and as I licked my lips, I was assured that the bitter spray was indeed BITTER & NASTY.  I don’t know about Wrigley, but that stuff totally stopped me from chewing on the furniture.