What I do on Friday nights...

Adam had to work late tonight, so I figured I'd try to be crafty and surprise myself. My mom came over yesterday to help me fix our very sad couch slip cover that would ride up every time someone would sit on it,  which of course meant that my slightly OCD-self had to fix it, re-tuck it, stretch it, and call it names until it looked semi-decent again. It looks a ton better! My mother is a pro-seamstress.

BUT. On top of fixing the slip cover, she also brought me my old sewing machine! I never had it in Utah because I thought it was too much of a hassle to lug around, so even just 36 hours later, I am loving having it again and being able to sew whenever I want. I'm sure the jeans I bought on sale that are too long will appreciate being hemmed soon. Today while Adam's been working, I completed a couple of projects:

Last week, I saw an ugly lamp in the trash at our apartment complex. Seeing as we didn't have a standing lamp, I took it. It's not stealing when someone's already decided to throw it away, right? It was a little wobbly and had a weird plastic piece sticking out of it:

So, yesterday after my mom left, I went to Jo-Ann's (which I could spend a week inside, by the way) and picked out some fabric and other girly, fringey things. Here's what I came up with:

I decided to use the rest of the fabric to make curtain ties for our red curtains (which Adam chose and purchased while I was out of town...he did a good job, eh?), and voila! Here's another before and after:

Yep, that's what I do on Friday nights until midnight. Happy weekend!