Girl with the Pink Toolbelt

Hello fuckers! It dawned on me last week that it's been more than two months since I posted about the upstairs living room and that none of the things I said I was going to do were even started.  Oops.  It's been crazy busy at work- averaging about 80 hours a week the last few weeks and I've literally come home to eat and sleep.  But this past weekend I finally had the entire weekend to myself, no events.  You know what that meant! Time to build something! About 2 months ago, maybe longer, I went in search of fabric for the coffee table/ottoman/bench/foot rest that I was going to build.  I was looking for something white and black with a print and stumbled upon an Ikat print from Walmart, of all places, that I thought would look really good as the top of the table.  I ordered two yards and it has sat in my linen closet since.  Insert face palm emoji.   Well I finally took it out of there last week and tossed it onto the rug to see how well they would look together and I imm

 I hope you have some time because this is going to be a long one.  I am finally happy with my upstairs living room.  I think this is the 4th time I've updated it.  But this time I really, truly love it.  I still have a few things I want to do for artwork but this badboy can finally be checked off the list.   It first started at the beginning of the year when I finally started using the desk upstairs for my new office.  I had been working from home for about 9 months and sitting downstairs at my dining table.  It was super uncomfortable, my back was killing me, I had paperwork and files all over.  It just wasn't ideal.  Since my dining room is right next to my living room (roughly 2 feet from the dining table are my living room chairs), my computer was right there ALL DAY LONG.  I'd hear an email ding and I'd be back at my laptop, all hours of the day.  I felt like I never stopped working because it wasn't in a space that I could walk away from.  If I'm sitting