We Did It Ourselves!

Isn't the Lord so good to give us brains and wisdom??? ;)

My dad always taught us growing up that there's soooo many things people could easily repair themselves, if they but TRY. All you have to do is investigate it a bit, and "wholla~!"

So guess what? See that green chair right there? Well, we had another green chair that eventually formed enough wear to produce big tears in, and of course, we duck-taped it for a few weeks......
Then last Sunday or so, after JUST buying Cody a NEW pair, never been worn, dress pants..... he sets in his duck taped chair for breakfast, and we're getting ready to go, and he's got sticky gray lines all over his butt! :(

It took a few seconds, before realizing he'd been stuck w/ duck tape!! :(

(I've been treating and re-treating those pants 10 times since then!) :(

And last week, I had Cody unscrew the bottom of the chair seat, to prepare it for recovering. I didn't want to spend any $ on vinyl (nor did I care for more green chairs anyway), and so I just found some nice peach skin, burgundy fabric to cover it with.

I called Chris in for some help, and we finished it TOGETHER! :) Whalla! :)

Since it's NOT vinyl, I put it over to use w/ my new, but used $5 sewing desk I just got at a yard sale! :) Now I have a pretty chair to set in, and sew, at MY very own SEWING desk! ..... :)

Yep!- My Dad wasn't perfect, but he sure did teach us alot of useful things! :)
And what did he teach us? -To just TRY to fix it yourselves!! :)

We're pretty pleased with ourselves! :)

-Glory to God for wisdom!! :)