Certifiable Genius

here is the couch with stuffing forming the base of the couch - also my glasses and the staple gun (okay stapler, just a wussie stapler - whine, i want an air compressor and stuff....)
here is the stapled batting - took me about an hour to get all the staples in - that batting is not going anywhere.... i sure hope i don't have to tear any of it out....
dude is checking my seam. i had to use pink thread. and i don't think it is straight enough for him....
ahhhaaaa i finally figured out how the hardware goes on this piece. tho i may have covered up the holes on the other piece....


certifiable genius - my baby is awesome. five or so years ago i bought my father a pottery piece that heats essential oils. i now have that piece and have been trying to clean it out. i have used enough soap and hot water to make my fingers permanent raisins. yet i could not get the sticky oil off. then my sweetest heart (the genius) mentions using rubbing alcohol. (now, you may say "duh, becca. i could have given you three different cleaners for sticky oily stuff on stuff." i would only say - this is my blog, my story, and i think baby is a genius.... mine blog...) so the pottery is clean and looks brand new as the day i bought it... thank you baby.
as you can see from my uploaded picts - i have been working on the couch. so far i have put stuffing around the base of the couch pallets, stapled batting on all sides, and attached the batting to the bottom of one of the couch pallets. i sewed (with the pink thread..) the corners of one couch piece. now i have to finish stapling the batting to the bottom of the other pallet and sew the corners. i also discovered how the hardware fits back onto the frame. that was a scary problem. nothing like doing all this work and not being able to put it back together to at least LOOK like a couch.... to be honest i am still uncertain how it all fits back together - but i am married to a genius and i know he can figure anything out. he is very mechanical.... RABBIT TRAIL - did i tell anyone that he bought straight pieces of metal tubing and FORMED them into the same pieces he had to replace on the buick?????? he is amazing. just took tubing and made some weird looking shape to fit back into the maze of engine parts.... and it all worked.... i would have crimped the shapes and nothing would have worked much less being able to fit it back into the car...
anywho... the couch. so i still have some work to be doing.. and dude likes to assist me. he plays with the items i am using and runs off with the strings. he is such a ham. bernice just sleeps on the couch. i am feeling good about the work getting done. still nervous about the actual cutting of the material - once that is done there is no going back. i have done many projects and somehow they usually don't turn out the way i saw them. my sewing classes were spent doing things i THOUGHT would work, but somehow i spent hours ripping out the work. and school projects - did not ever turn out - well i sure never got the grade i thought they deserved. so i am picturing this going well (or so i think it is going well) and some how it just doesn't do what i thought it should or the corners look crummy, or a thousand (okay being real - several dozen - ) other problems. there is a bit of fear where the mechanical stuff comes in - especially if i have it all covered up. oh well, guess we are steaming ahead...
oh here is a side note - on a more serious note actually. last night - well yesterday afternoon i was talking to my best friend (my husband) about how i was loosing hope for healing. how it has been so many years that i have been praying and believing. just sometimes seems i can no longer trust or hope. and while watching him (my bestest friend) run audio at university church last night the speaker was talking about healing - kinda crazy how God can put things in front of you when you need encouragement again.... - this speaker said that to get healing you must hold on and not let go until you have the answer, you should pray for those that pray for you, take care of your body, and keep confessing the scriptures that say God has healed you. to speak like there is fire burning in you, like you really believe it. not just a mantra over and over. so i am encouraged again. and glad God can handle my unbelief - that He gives me what i need just when i need it. GENIUS. He is good.
love to all
think that is it for now.