Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

~ Capturing the context of everyday life ~

~pretty~

A year in this house, and I'm only finally beginning to feel at home here, as if the house is finally coming together. I'm liking how my living room is looking lately, though there was one thing that was bothering me...Jimmo, my stepfather, was kind enough to loan me a rocking chair that's a family heirloom of his...the chair itself is a beautiful, wooden, rocking chair...BUT the fabric on it simply wasn't working with my living room decor...I though of moving the chair downstairs to my "shabby chic" guest suite, where the fabric would blend in beautifully, but I love rocking Joni to sleep in this chair...so it felt to me like it really needed to stay in the living room. And, since it's on loan, it's not mine to reupholster...

...then Ben's cousin Cynthia came to visit...

apparently, Cynthia used to reupholster furniture...

I never knew this!

She told me that the chair would literally take 5 minutes to reupholster in such a way that wouldn't damage the original fabric, and I could easily do it myself, even having zero reupholstering experience...

She was right!

Here is the old fabric...

...and here is the new fabric purchased at JoAnn's for $3 on Clearance :-)  

Voila!

This simple step gave this chair a whole new look, and doesn't it fit in beautifully with the rest of the room?

I wanted it to accent the chair in the corner and the throw pillows on the brown couch. 

~happy~

Our property here is really gorgeous in the Springtime. I'm so thankful for our beautiful weather. The children are happier outside, and if the children are happy, mommy's happy...and if mommy's happy, well, you know how the saying goes!

~funny~

Three-year-old's CAN dust. This is proof.

~real~

My kitchen faucet broke off an cannot be repaired! This means we will need to replace it. In the meantime, I guess I'll be washing the dishes in the bathtub. People have worse problems. This is merely an annoying and unexpected inconvenience!

UPDATE: Boppy was able to fix our kitchen faucet with a $20 part from The Home Depot! Seriously, is there anything he can't fix? Thank you, Boppy! If it hadn't been for Boppy's generosity and expertise, we would've paid hundreds of dollars to have this fixed, when really, it turns out that all it needed was a new universal attachment. Thank you Boppy!