Our Black Friday

This year we have been shopping in the land of recycled.  The day we made the desk (below a few posts) and went alley picking, we found a lot of extra wood as well, we have been hoarding wood :)

For Christmas this year, don't be surprised to get something home made and most likely recycled from us.  So for our Black Friday we worked on our Christmas present to each other, an ottoman (yea no lines!).  We spent about $15-20 on the entire thing, fabric, foam and all.

This is a very multipurpose ottoman, we can use it as a leg rest, we can use it for step ups for our workouts, and it lifts up with lots of storage space underneath (to hide our weights)

What started out as a few pieces of wood

And some tools

Lots of cutting using an impromtu work beanch and me sitting on the wood as a stabilizer (I have to admit I don't love being close cutting objects and I was a little scared as Ted cut it with me sitting on it)

Seeing if the cuts are right 

(Ted is lucky to have mini me wife, I am short enough to fit inside the box ha ha)

Using my yoga skills to hold the wood with my feet and screw it to the larger piece of wood

Then I went off to a fabric store I had seen, we have a similar one in Arizona, best prices on fabrics anywhere!  They get all the factory leftovers.

I was in fabric heaven!  Got the fabric for the ottoman for $10 and it is thick home fabric, they are going to get sick of me at this place!

Then home to sew, and sew and sew some more....

Before the slip cover is on it

Done

Looks pretty nice I think

Relaxing after a long day of building, finally somewhere to put our feet!

Lola is scared of it, she loves the space heater though ;)