Uping My Mood Through To Do Lists

I'm fighting off some terrible thoughts lately and really, really trying to keep upbeat. As a result, I've given myself a swift kick in the patootie, and started to work on my list of stuff to do:




Half the amount of clothes I own

Half the amount of shoes I own

Go through my baskets of paper work and organize them

Organize my jewelry

Go through letters and date them

Print off photos and complete a few more scrapbooking pages

Apply to another job

Find solutions for when I move furniture wise

Make a slip cover for my crash pad

Make a new dress

Give away homemade jewelry (I'm addicted to making it)

Dry cleaning



The biggest challenges (and admittedly, the most fun) are finding furniture solutions and working on that darn crash pad slip cover. I'll take pictures when I finally attempt it. Expect hilarity. For those who don't know what a crash pad is, it's something you use when climbing so when you fall off the rock, you hit something a little softer than the ground. I emphasize "little". I bought my crash pad back in my freshman year when I had the choice of that or a bed. I figured I could sleep on the pad. It was like sleeping on flexible plywood, even with a little more padding. The reason I really want to make a slip cover is so I can use it as furniture. It's about five inches shorter and three inches wider than a twin bed. So, I'm thinking about getting a day bed frame and using my ten bazillion pillows to make a "couch" that my more adventurous friends could sleep on. But…

I really want a white couch. And the pad is black with a few orange designs. The problem of material arises. I was going to repurpose a sheet (cheap, big enough), but you can clearly see through it that it's black beneath the surface. Argh! So now I'm hunting for cheap buffers/'liners/mattress pads that I could use beneath the sheet. Oy, what an adventure.



The other issue? I don't have a place to eat. My latest idea for this is to repurpose a bookshelf from the wonderful Ikea to be one end of the table (against the wall), and then take two of its shelves for a table bit. I'm nervous about it moving or toppling or just generally not working, but I'm working on that bit. Other fun part? All of this stuff has to be temporary for moving purposes. I'm renting, and I need a lot of this furniture to come apart and go back to close to its original state. It's creatively taxing (since most of my stuff is in storage, and I don't even have a place yet), but I want to have a jump on everything when I finally get to move. :: day dreams of an apartment ::



That being said, I am terrified of this whole make-a-slipcover thing. I've read so many tutorials, but I'm still open to tips. Anything. Really, I'm not the most gifted sewer. It'll be pretty funny, at least!