My Favorite Christmas Present

It... is finished.

I have been working night and day on an ugly old chair my mom didn't want anymore. She gave it to me at Christmas.



Any one wonder why? Or do you just wonder why I took it.



Mom actually inheirited it from my aunt, who didn't want it anymore either


Well, I have this amazing new room in our house and it needed an amazing new chair
but I couldn't find one, and this one was just my size, and so comfortable, but still... I am not blind, and my room is amazing. So, I could pay someone else to recover this free chair or then again why couldn't I do it myself? I am just as capable as the next guy, right! Well...



I was having my doubts


but after this much work I was kind of commited ... or need to be



Have you ever seen a naked chair?

This is it!

But low and behold...

Hours...

Days...

Sweat...

Blood.
(no Emily project would be complete without it.)

Some serious Staples...

Wouldn't this make a neat puzzle

can you find three brass tacks?...


Come on, don't give up so easily!


You would not believe how seriously those stinkin' staples can embed themselves in carpet.

I went over and over that floor with a magnet pincushion grandmother gave me,
I don't know what I would have done without it,
Thanks Grandmother.

Ok, Ok,


I know you're ready...


but this is a blog


I think it deserves a certain amount of


Yadda Yadda Yadda


If you know what I mean,

Ok!


Voila!




Isn't it amazing!


Do a little spin for us




Work It!


I have a whole new respect for Oragami-ists

those folds took HOURS ! ! !


have you forgotten yet?



Yes it really is the same chair

No, Mom you can't have it back,

Neither can you Aunt Kay.


And it's just the right size



Thanks, Mom.