Mastering the Staple Gun

Before

Chris was out of town on business this week and so I wanted to come up with a project to surprise him. We have been wanting to re-upholster our dining room chairs for a while now and we had already agreed on a fabric together. Had we not, I would never have attempted this because Chris is pickier than any woman I know.

Kenzee and I were walking around Hobby Lobby on Monday and I decided to go look at the fabric again and it was on sale, so that was my cue to purchase it.




I took all the chair cushions off myself using a drill and piled them in my car to go to my parents.



Kenzee and I spent the night there on Monday, because I'm a fraidy cat, and so my sister and I could do this project together after she went to bed.

She normally goes to bed at 8:00...no big deal...we read her a book and put her in bed and she goes to sleep.

Not at Grandma's. After much screaming, more playing, rocking, more milk, more snack...she went to bed some time after 11:00.

So we got started on this project a little late.

We were on the front porch getting all set up for our project and the dog came out to watch and threw up right in the middle of our work area.

Clean it up and get started.



The staple gun is a little bit loud and a lot a bit HARD! We are not getting any of the staples to go in all the way. I say we and I mean Sara...I am not brave enough to use the staple gun at this point. Anyway, Sara shoots in a staple and then I hammer it the rest of the way in, which really just flattens it.

The hammering is loud.



Moved to the back porch. It is still the same loudness, but now no one knows where it is coming from... he he.




Get started there.



Get hungry.



Ask mom for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.



She says we can have one, but we have to make it ourselves.



Sara asks her if Chris wanted one, would she make it for him?



She smiles and then flat out admits she would. (Chris is the favorite child. Most the time I am okay with this, but sometimes I get jealous. It's obvious...she babies him way more than us)

So we make our own peanut butter and jellies and get back to work.




By 2:30 am we have covered one cushion. I have used the gun a few times. Sara has mastered it and her staples go all the way in now.



We are too tired to do any more.


2ND NIGHT

We have got this down now and can complete two maybe even three cushions in the time it took us to do one the night before. We even took apart our first one and redid it making it tighter.
I have mastered the staple gun too, but I'm still afraid of it.



Our work was good and Chris loved it! This project was only $35 for 6 dining chairs.

After