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Day 15/31: ***Let me say first that I make NO safety recommendations on this and if you follow this project you do so at your own risk.*** One of the girls' favorite things on a playground is monkey bars. But most of the playgrounds closest to our home don't have them. So we built them in one of the girl's closets. We fastened 2x4s to 3 walls of her closet and capped the front with a 4th piece. Electrical conduit is used to make the bars and we drilled holes into the 2x4s to hold them. Then we screwed down through the top of the 2x4 and into the bars to keep them from spinning as that would suck when trying to catch the next one. Originally we wrapped them with duct tape to soften it on her hands but we found she actually just preferred it as plain bars. The girls have loved it but it wasn't very pretty to look at so I made some curtains for the outside of it. The same curtains that Luna ate a couple days ago. Last Thursday I was home with a sick kiddo so I made another...

Day 14/31: E's dress still fit but sadly had gotten stained and I couldn't get it out. Bummer. So I cut off most of the top, stitched it up with some elastic, and made it into a skirt so she can continue to love it for a while.

Day 13/31: My jeans were toast. They had been worn and washed so many times they just gave out. But for the most part the legs were okay so I decided to give them a new life. I don't have a how to because I was definitely winging this one. I cute the legs off and figured out where I wanted the seams to show up on her dress. Then I laid the two sides out and used a tshirt to trace the armholes and neckline. I added an extra strip around the bottom to ruffle it a bit and added small arms pieces as well. The front The back I love the little ruffle. I think it finishes it off nicely. Erin was really good about giving me a nice face for the picture And we had to try getting a bit silly, too because why not?

I knew that my living room needed a couple more chairs and when I saw these unloved and filthy little things at the thrift store I knew they would be perfect to fill the space. Then they sat there for a month as I tried to figure out what color to paint them and what fabric to put on the seats. One of the guys at work said I should use a cow patterned fabric like they have on the seats at the corner bar and that jump started my imagination nicely. Sadly there was no cow fabric to be found, though I did find some fun zebra and I like how it worked out. Pulling the seats and backs off of the frames and recovering them was pretty simple but my staple gun has recently turned into an automatic and made that part of the project a little dangerous and living-on-the-wild-side kind of scary. Husband suggested painting the frames teal to match the DVD shelf in the room and I certainly won't turn him down when he comes up with bright color choices (yay!). So we jumped in to our newly or...

Last November we got a puppy and, in true puppy style, it ate my couch. Luna (puppy) tore the sides and back from the couch (all of it) and put a big hole in part of the cushion. It was still comfortable to sit on (the seating areas were mostly fine), just ugly. I thought I had a picture of the destruction but I am having trouble finding it. Just imagine something truly ghetto. Anyway, the original couch was the dark green color you see below (with the southwest design on the backs of the pillows). It wasn't exactly my style but it was given to me for free and in good condition so I can't really complain about fabric. And then in stepped Luna, also known as Looney and Pain, who "remodeled" the couch. We tried to buy a premade slip cover but the store here only carried them for couches up to 97" (about 7 or 8 inches too short). We bought it anyway and made do for a while. Then I discovered that it fit much better if I took the seating cushions out and put...