Assortment

Apple Butter!

 

 

 

 

 
  

 
 

 

There will be homemade apple butter on our Thanksgiving table this year!

With gratitude to you, Granny Smith! 

 

Have a lovely holiday weekend, friends! Be safe, laugh, eat, and hug your loved ones. I'll see you back here on Monday!

 

 

While I Was Out...

Here's a little peek at what I was up to while I was away from the computer last week:

 
(camelback slipcovered sofa by Restoration Hardware)

No, I wasn't buying a new sofa, ($2195 - $3770! I don't think so!) but I was slip-covering an old one! Now, before you freak out about that, let me tell you that this plan has been in the works for a very long time. Like a year long time. It was caught in the cogs of my brain and I thought I'd never get it out!

Sometime last fall, as I was leafing through the latest Resoration Hardware catalog, that sofa you see up there, stopped me in my tracks. It wasn't that it was a camelback - I've never really liked camelback sofas. It wasn't the loose pillow-back either - if you have a sofa like this with three boys, the pillows always end up on the floor. It was the linen fabric made into this simple, snug-fitting slipcover - no skirt, with the only detail being just some cording at the seams. I loved the simplicity of it, the natural, organic look it had. 

So, I filed it away in my mind and carried it around with me as I went thrifting. Low and behold, not too much time later, I found my sofa - for $50! 

 

It's not much to look at, here, I know: sun-faded blue fabric that's torn in places, short, boxy back pillows, etc. But. The lines are perfect, and the sofa is very well made and in amazing condition (other than the fabric). So, home it came. And at home it sat for one full year.

Until last week. When stretches of somewhat uninterrupted time came my way:

 

The fabric I chose is actually painter's drop cloths from Lowes. Being that I'm on a silken-thread budget, here, I had to throw the blinders off and look for large yardage for little money. I love this fabric - it fits the natural, organic look so well! Though it seemed a bit stiff when I opened the package, a couple washings made it nice and soft.

I replaced the short, boxy back pillows with 28" square Euro pillows that I got for a screaming deal from Sierra Trading Post. The pillows aren't down-filled, like I was originally looking for, but you would sure think they were. So soft and inviting!

 

 

Here's the project as it looks right now. Plump back pillows are all done, now onto the seat cushions and the shell for the sofa body!

 

So, what do you think? Will it be a good interpretation of the original?

I'll see you tomorrow, friends!

 

On The Other Side of My Screen

 

 

Mornin', everyone!

It's me, Fluffy! I'm back, and I've missed you all!

Now, if I can just remember to keep my computer plugged in when it needs to be, and move all my hundrends of photos onto and external hard drive, we'll be in blogging business for a good long time. Aren't you glad?

Funny thing, when I went to the computer doctor's shop the other day to pick up my computer, he directed my attention (in a very, very, very subtle way, [as in, he may not have directed my attention to any particular thing at all, except the bill]) to a large cartoon poster on the wall behind him, in which a woman was saying to her husband, as she sat in front of her computer, "The technician said the problem is located somewhere between the keyboard and my chair." Right. And, get this, the woman was a caricature of me! She had a nose, eyes, mouth, dark hair, and a shadow of a mental infirmity, just like me!

Uh...How...Who...Wha?

Weird.

 

But, yes, as I was saying, I've missed you, even though I don't know you all, I've missed you. Sometimes I wonder,

"Who reads this blog, anyway?" 

(Besides my sister, my neighbor, and Mike in Alaska? [Hi Mike!])

"Where do they live?"

"What do they do?"

"What do they eat for breakfast?"

In essence: "Who are all of you on the other side of my screen?'"  

I wonder this, but, this, I may never know, because you really are a quiet bunch. I say that with utmost respect and admiration. I mean, where would this world be without quiet people? But, on the other hand, where would this world be if there was only one person who constantly did all the talking? It would be like she's in her own little cave of a world with only her own voice echoing back at her, like she was talking and listening to herself all at the same time. 

I think. I couldn't tell you for sure, but I think it might be something like that. 

Oh, dear. I just realized something.

People with mental infirmities tend to talk to themselves!

Well, there you have it. The dots are being connected as we I speak: there are issues with the operator, here. And I don't really know what to say about that, except that I'll just keep yammering on here in my little cave. In other words, I'll keep being me, and if you feel so inclined as to say a word or two in the comments today (and every other day), it just may aid in righting my mental wrongs.

You never know.

 

P.S. It's so good to be back!