Back around 2002/2003, I lived in Massachusetts. I’ve been fortunate to live quite a few places, and for the most part, I’ve enjoyed everywhere I have lived. Massachusetts was more challenging for me. My “southernness” made me feel like…”a whore in church!” Really!  Excuse my French!

In spite of this, there was one thing I loved during this time. Snow. We had an extremely snowy winter in Massachusetts. After a sad day of worrying about my mother in Virginia, worrying about how my dogs were barking in our overly-tiny, overly-expensive yard, longing for that yellow house on the hill in Mendota…thinking about this…..

I’d just ache to be in Mendota, Virginia. I’d turn on the back porch light and watch the snow fall. I’d cry until I became distracted by the beauty and magic of snowflakes.

Tonight it is October, and we have a forecast of snow in Virginia. I’m hopeful that some time tonight, one of my “dear girls” (Gracie or Luckie Dog) will wake me..or maybe just the excitement of the possibility of snow will wake me…and I’ll turn on the porch light and see snow falling. If that is the case, I’ll sit in a chair and just watch it.

This time, there will be no tears.

Maybe I’ll wake up to this…

I hope your life is as good as mine.

Present day….I’m continuing working on my house…updating it…and attempting to use what I have. This will save me money, but it will also keep a piece of furniture out of the landfill.

I’ve wanted a chair and ottoman for the master bedroom for a long time. We have an office upstairs that I’ll be reworking in the spring of 2013, and I found the perfect chair and ottoman in that room. However, it is the wrong color. I thought about having it reupholstered, however, my cats and their desire to sit on everything in their path…Yikes! I decided to have it slipcovered.

However, I can’t sew. If you’ve read this blog in the past (for instance…here), you know that I’m hopeless at sewing.   If only I could!    I have read numerous blogs, tutorials and videos about how to slipcover furniture.   I considered it, but my husband accurately told me “you can’t sew….in fact…you stink at sewing.”

I asked around and received the name of Danette Mayfield. Danette is from North Carolina but she makes the trip over to the Tri-Cities every so often for both slipcover and upholstery work.

I called her, sent a picture of my chair and ottoman and got her price.  I already had the fabric.  She was very reasonable.

She came over two weeks ago. Here she is…

I don’t know what I expected with the slipcovering.  She took the creamy white twill fabric that I had and cut it to fit the furniture right on the spot. How smart!

The room is a wreck.  We have paid no attention to this room in years.  When our doggies became too feeble to go up the stairs, we quit going up the stairs.   Annie is already gone, and Luckie and Gracie are 14.    It is bittersweet to know that we’ll be using the room again in the near future.

Thank you Lord for the 14 years of sweetness.

Danette was fast.  I felt comfortable with her, and, in fact, left for breakfast while she continued working.    She’s a doggy person, too, and she had her border collie with her.   I took a picture of her dog but it didn’t turn out well enough to include in this post.

Danette said she’d be back in a couple of weeks with my slipcovers for the red ottoman and the red chair.  They’ll be moving to the master bedroom all happy with their creamy white twill look.

I’m off to look for snow.