I am a tv addict and I cannot get anything done.
With prime time in full swing, I watch a lot of tv. Last night the lineup included Gilmore Girls, 24, and Law and Order: SVU. I should have been knitting during this time to at least accomplish something other than tv watching. But nope, I was too tired so I became a tv zombie.
All I want to do is knit and read Harry Potter #5. But between two jobs, the time change, Chim Chim’s nightly anticts, and all the other minutia, nothing is accomplished. My evening walks have even been disrupted because it is too dark when I arrive at home.
Bah!
Last weekend, Clint and I went to a Yart (yep, Yart) Sale. All these hip folks had made little folk art type things and were selling them via a yard sale. Homemade comics, Christmas ornaments, collages, paintings, little clay replicas of Hillary Clinton et al., etc. Things like this always make me wonder how people work full time and still have the energy to come home and produce art…
because I come home and vegetate against all the forces in my brain telling me not to vegetate. The little forces tell me to knit, but my brain counters with the fact that I am tired and being tired will cause me to mess up in knitting, which will cause immense frustration.
To be continued…
Next item on the agenda
I need to find a decent slipcover for our couch and chair. Cats and the sun have finally taken their toll just four years into the furniture’s stint in our home. So… I decided that I needed a slipcover. I have instructions to make slipcovers that are very decent, but the materials are $200+ and the time needed to complete this project inhibits me from jumping into production.
So, the majority of slipcovers that I have found are made by one brand and have ugly elastic arms with big bow ties and fluffy skirts around the bottom. Yuck!
Then there are these Pottery Barn slipcovers. They still have skirts to the floor, but they are much more tailored in appearance than the ugly elastic-y bow-laden ones. Together, a sofa and chair slipcover would be $320 with the current sale.
However, if I made the slipcovers myself, I could have a super tailored fit and even separate cushion covers. But… the time and patience and even skill required in sewing to complete the project worry me.
Or since we live in a disposable society, we could purchase a new couch and chair from Ikea. Most of the Ikea furniture comes with slipcovers anyway. But I hate that we live in a disposable society.
Ah, the dilemma!
I think I know the answer to this dilemma, but I appreciate any guidance or source of decent slipcovers that you, the reader, may be able to provide.
