i wanted to clean .... and i got side tracked .... no surprise there!

if you had a groovy cool, yet woefully messy, art studio in your basement .... wouldn't you wish for a drawer like this ..... full of neatly organized fun papers for collage work? that stuff used to just be hither and yon all over the place ... now? no hither and yon for me ... or it ....but then .... woe is me .... my cleaning binge was side tracked by this forlorn little bench .... 

goodwill? or not goodwill? keep and try to love? or cast aside and never think of it again ..... brown floral? hard to love?
i could not cast it aside .... so i took off what i thought was the most hideous upholstery .... just to find exponentially worse upholstery ..... dirty pink and brown plaid ....luckily for me, i'd been on a weeks long cleaning binge and ... lo! ... three new fresh organized drawers of tools .... and there's that splendid staple gun ... rah .....i'm on an anti buying binge ... not buying anything art related .... or frivolous .... or not house renovation related ..... but luckily i had a big enough piece of the perfect colored fabric in my stash (newly organized stash, might i add?) .... stapled it on .... wrote a letter to little.e.beck.artist so that she would know why this bench was saved from goodwill just for her room ....and ... ta dum ..... hideous becomes turquoise and little.e.beck.artist practiced sitting on it .... and decided that's where she'd lay out her clothes (rather than on the floor) and where she'd sit to put on her shoes .... how very practical of her 

.....and stay tuned for the ongoing saga of "i'm really tired of cleaning out my studio and just need more ways to procrastinate" ..... 
this poor footstool! ... luckily i have a whole drawer of JUST tapes .... so the duct tape was easy to find .... i considered an all duct tape footstool ... but thought it was a little too urban for the rest of the colorful decor we have planned in the house .....

and the punch line? i started this second little upholstery project as a procrastination technique..... and then i ended up procrastinating that by collaging and stenciling my floor .... eek! that was not the plan! i'm supposed to be cleaning still!