Posts Tagged ‘sewing’
I first saw the cellphone beanbag chair last Christmas in one of the many catalogs that fill our mailbox during the holidays. They were super cute, and I thought they would be a good solution to our cellphone situation here in B.F.C. You see in order to get a signal strong enough to make a call our cellphones need to be propped up against a window in the front of the house, facing the nearest tower. Doing this will get up to four bars of reception, but if you pick up the phone or move it the signal is lost. (We had to sit on the planter wall and lean towards the window without moving in order to have a conversation before we got bluetooth headsets!) The problem was the phones occasionally fell over for one reason or another and as a result they had gotten a few scratches. The other issue was that the window frames we were leaning the phones on were interfering with the signal reception. I was going to buy the mini beanbags for us for Christmas last year but then I saw the price ($9.99 each plus shipping) and thought “I could make that!” Fast forward to yesterday, and voila! One custom leopard print cellphone beanbag chair! I got a free beanbag chair pattern online from Budget101.com that I used as a template to make a scaled down pattern. I used a piece of graph paper (printed from a free template I found at this website) and drew the three pattern shapes in the scale that I wanted, cut them out and proceeded to follow the instructions on the pattern page. The only thing different about the beanbag I made is that there is no zipper, I simply hand stitched the bottom closed after I filled the beanbag with dried chamomile flowers. Yep, mine is stuffed with chamomile flowers. I was going to stuff it with lavender flowers but unfortunately did not have enough. Since I live in B.F.C. I have to be adaptable and use what’s here, hence the chamomile flower stuffing. The total cost of my custom cellphone beanbag chair was about $2 and a few hours of my time. I am very satisfied with how it came out and would have to say that the cellphone beanbag sewing session was a success. I think I’m going to make a few more to give as gifts to the people I love. They are so cute, who wouldn’t want one?
I guess this is where I need to write something about myself…
I was born in Woodland Hills, CA. That’s right, I am a Valley girl. Now I live in southwest Colorado on forty forested acres at the top of a mountain. There are a lot of “used to be’s” here, people who used to have important jobs at important places making lots of money and dealing with incredible amounts of stress. I fit into that category, and have to say was quite amused to learn that about this new place I now call home.
Life is very different now than it was when I lived in California and worked in the film industry. My days belong to me, and most of them are spent at home doing what I choose. There is plenty to do here at any time of year, and my activities change according to the season. A few of the things I enjoy are cooking, gardening, hiking, home improvement, reading, sewing, web development, and playing games on the Wii. I still dabble in the realm of sound by way of my honey’s band for which I am the sound engineer.
Although I worked very hard for twenty years to get here, I still realize how fortunate I am not to have to work a 9 to 5 job. I am grateful for that every single day.
