The Rogue Housewife takes a nap?

My weekend started off with a bang! 

 To start off, my scrappy little chair was featured on

 Miss Mustard Seed's Furniture Feature Friday.

  Woo hoo!

That's just crazy, fabulous!

and, my guys left to go skiing in Vermont on Friday.

They sure are happy campers with all that snow!

I never mind when they go away and leave me home alone.

  As soon as they leave I get busy! 

 It's my freedom time to do whatever I please.

  Enter...stage left....the rogue housewife!

After I shoveled the whole driveway!!!

 (downside of men being away) I began work on

 a round ottoman to go with my scrappy little chair.

I found a great way to cut a circle.  I tried it first with some string around a nail and that was just not static enough to get the circle even all the way around.

Then I switched to a piece of cardboard hammered in the center.  All I had to do was poke a hole for the pen to make the circle.

These cute little legs are from Lowes @ $6 each

I drilled a hole for each leg and then just screwed 

them in from the top.

I happened to have some cheap foam from 

Walmart which I cut into four giant pancakes. 

At first I thought I would only need two pancakes so I layered it all together to get the measurement for the wood spacers.  

Here are the spacers and my house guest Zippy.

What is it with these dogs?  They just love the spotlight.

such a ham!

Here's the sandwich.

  (Lots of food references.  Ham, sandwich, pancakes...hmmm, guess I'm hungry)

I cut three strips from a concrete footing tube

and stapled it around the outside.

Here it is, ready to be upholstered.  The little imperfections

will disappear when I add the batting.

If you decide to make your own little round ottoman 
you may want to purchase some thicker foam. 

 This mattress foam was around ten dollars and it had
the added benefit of already being in my closet.

 Tomorrow I'll add some batting and upholster with plain duck.

  I like the idea of making slipcovers I can switch out and wash when needed.

I can have fun with pleats, ruffles, cord, flange or even fur!

I could really use a nap now (and some pancakes)
 must've been the shoveling...