“Home is where the controller is”
Needs to be ironed, but the stitching is done. (Taken with instagram)
Almost done.
“Our house was small, and when you grow up with domestic violence in a confined space you learn to gauge, very precisely, the temperature of situations. I knew exactly when the shouting was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Curiously, I never felt fear for myself and he never struck me, an odd moral imposition that would not allow him to strike a child. The situation was barely tolerable: I witnessed terrible things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help. Worse, there were those who condoned the abuse. I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”
Sir, you are my hero.
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Old coffee table turned ottoman.
Office chair #1 before and after.
Another upholstery job done with old curtains. We used to have black and red everything, at least that’s what it felt like. I’m sick and tired of the red but there’s a lot of things that are red that can be used other places so, I’m limiting it to only our office. This is my husband’s chair. It was covered in a blanket that was precariously attached to the bottom. I’m actually not quite sure how he rigged it to stay. All I know is that it was ugly, dirty and disgusting. The red fabric were his curtains that were tab tops. Two of the tabs were ripped off and sewn back on very hastily. The tabs also had wooden buttons that were decorative only. I’m going to use them to tuft the ottoman that I’m making out of our coffee table.
Once we get our big ticket items (i.e. new sofa, bookshelves, rugs) and I reupholster and/or refinish everything that needs some good TLC and elbow grease, I will take high quality pictures of our new home! Until then, my low-res pics from Instagram will just have to do.
We are slowly remaking our living room. These end tables were my husbands and who only knows where they came from before he owned them (he had them in his bedroom when he was a teenager). The first one I spray painted was that worn down. The second one wasn’t nearly as worn but the picture doesn’t show just how ugly the finish was on these things. There is a coffee table that matches these end tables that I’m actually going to make into a long ottoman as soon as the fabric that I ordered arrives. Soon enough, our home won’t look like a yard sale. At least, that’s what I’m hoping!
We just got our household goods a few days ago. Both moving crews must have thought we were crazy to be shipping these stools over considering how torn up they were. I had already planned to recover them and the fabric pictured with them is a curtain my husband purchased at a German store. Someone had given him a ride to it before we had our car and even before I had arrived here. He had thought it was solid red. It wasn’t. He thought it was pretty ugly but, didn’t have a way back to return it easily so he kept it. I thought it was pretty ugly and couldn’t wait to have our stuff arrive. So, as I was hanging our real curtains, I saw the back of the red one and knew exactly what was going to happen to it. New life to our ugly stools!! Hooray!
I officially moved into my new place in Germany. It’s fantastic. I am in love. Even right now, with Strep throat, I am in love.
My favorite beer from home (Yuengling) is now officially my cooking beer. It didn’t even feel sacrilegious pouring the bottle of it into the bowl to form the dough of some delicious beer bread. German beer is far superior.
Have you ever tasted beer bread? It’s yummy and so simple to make. It’s kind of sweet so, if you’re not a fan of sweet bread, you probably will think I’m crazy. My husband didn’t like it but, what the hell does he know? He’d make a meal out of Pringles and Mountain Dew.
Beer bread finished. Beef stew stewing. It was delicious.
Beer Bread recipe from allrecipes.com.
Like one person says, if you don’t have self-rising flour on hand, use regular all-purpose flour and add 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt for each cup you are substituting for.
Yummmmmm
Bavarian Alps Trip
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I didn’t realize I was peeking around my cross stitch in the one picture. I’m totally in the mood to shun elusiveness… and I have to show off my Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock t-shirt that I just got in the mail yesterday. <3
Anyway, That’s how far I’ve gotten with it. Very sad that I haven’t gotten further. Sorry for the lack of quality in the pics. My webcam is just a step above a chisel and stone…
Catching up on Merlin while I crazily cross stitch to finish this last project before Christmas.
I think I can…
I think I can…
