Bella Get's Some Style

Most of you know that I have two precious, absolutely adorable cats named Francesca and Bellabee.

Even though they have the cutest little fuzzy faces their claws can destroy most of my furniture.... so with this comes my newest quickest crafty trick...

I have always thought that cat scratching post were super ugly... mainly the beige carpet that is wrapped around the base. So I decided to change it...

Materials
Basic Scratching Post (I found mine a PetSmart)
1/2 yd of your favorite fabric
Staple gun
..... and finally a good friend.....

Step 1: Admire very ugly scratching post and imagine some sort of possibilities!

Step 2: Turn scratching post upside down and unscrew the post from the carpet base.

Step 3: Cut out fabric to fit around base.

Step 4: So that the corners will not be bubbly cut diagonals into fabric.

Step 5: With the staple gun and a good friend pull the fabric tight and staple. Sorry I don't have any pictures of this because both Meredith and I were using all of our hands to pull the fabric super tight!

Step 6: Admire your cute little base and re-attach post!

Step 7: Find a cat that will love your cute scratching post! Also you can totally see that I used some of the fabric that I had left over from the chair reupholstery!

Hope you enjoy making your personalized scratching post!!

Happy crafting!

Thrifty Finds

I am so excited about a thrift store find that has turned out to be absolutely perfect and I wanted to share it with you!

Behold.... before and after pictures of a green thrift store chair....

Total Cost of entire project: $316.37

Thrift Store Chair: $30.00

Fabric (9yds): $116.37 ($12/yd + tax)

Reupholstery: $170.00

I must say the way this chair looks in my apartment is priceless. ;) I found the chair in a thrift store in Jacksonville, NC about a year or so ago. When I immediately saw it I thought I must have this reupholstered, but then I ended up deciding that I loved the green fabric. (In the back of my head I constantly thought about reupholstering!) Finally during this past month one of my students was talking about how crafty his mom was and then he said... "she reupholsters furniture sometimes..." thats all it took! I immediately talked to him about it and sent her pics of the chair and she said she could do it! Yaya! Then I had to go on the amazing fabric hunt. My mom and I immediately went to the Cloth Barn in Goldsboro, NC because they have SO MUCH fabric! While looking through the upholstery fabric I became so disappointed because nothing was like I was envisioning! Finally I walked past this beautiful fabric and asked if it was thick enough to be upholstery and YES it was!!

So I am so glad that I could share this great find and re-vamp with you! I hope that this will inspire you to go to a thrift store and find something you can make completely your own!

Hope you have a great new years!