Budget Buster - Do It Yourself

We love this love seat...except for a few things.  It's way out of date.  It's faded.  It's broken down.  It needs lots of Febreeze because...

Miss Priss thinks it's her bed. {We've let her think that.}  She has not figured out that she is a dog yet.  She is pretty sure she is a short human.   

Look at her so annoyed with the paparazzi showing up during her private nap time.  I think she is thinking: Really?  I just want a nap, lady. 

Anyway, back to needing a love seat for actual humans.  I wracked my brain.  How could I squeeze a new love seat into the budget?  I just could not do it.  Even if we gave up eating every other meal, I could not make it work.  Then as I was flipping through the technical college's summer catalog I found this...
 

I called up and got permission to bring in a love seat and the rest is history.  I went back to school.

I was assigned homework. 

I went shopping for school supplies with my BFF.  Shout out to Kim in Bama!  :-)  {This was actually a souvenir from when we went down South for the 4th of July weekend.  The South has great text tile stores that we do not have up here in Wisconsin.}

Good by ugly fabric, hello beautiful brick red. 

I took notes, used scissors and chalk.

I traced...

...and played on the floor.

Is this cheating on my homework?  {Actually, this is extra credit.}

Stay tuned to see how everything turns out.