RustyRaven

Very nice - works well with the coloured towels too. Makes me regret all my cream towels a little!

This one's fairly simple, it's basically square cushions on top of a wood frame, for both the seat and back. There is no shaping or any fabric attached to the frame.

The only complication is that the seat base is done with tension springs attached to a metal frame that don't seem to exist as replacement parts - I have found one supplier with something similar, but they don't stock the right length. I'm going to use elastic webbing instead, which I'm at least familiar with using from previous projects, although I've not done anything larger than a dining chair.

I'm mostly a bit nervous about getting the piping on the cushions right. There was someone in the sewing sub on reddit that posted their project the other day which was almost identical, with links to a YT video they used and recommended so I will watch that one.

I finally bit the bullet and ordered some supplies to reupholster my couch & armchairs. I've been dithering for years over whether I want to spend the money doing that or just buy a new one. I have gotten to the stage of putting everything into the cart and seeing the total a few times, decided it was too much and started looking at new couches instead. Then I decide I quite like my couch and don't really want the cheap junk I could buy for that price and circle back around to reupholstering again.

So now I have $840 worth of foam, webbing etc. ordered (I already have fabric) and fingers crossed I don't mess it up. Miss Meow should be happy with my decision anyway, as the set has an open wood frame which makes the space underneath a good napping spot.

Whilst I'd prefer to stay inside in air conditioned comfort I am going to take a load of stuff down to the op shop. Hopefully I can fit everything in one trip.

Edit: Done. It all fit in the car & has been dropped off. There was an annoying lady in a van blocking the drive through for a ridiculous amount of time and causing carpark gridlock and chaos everywhere, but otherwise it was not too traumatic. I even got rid of the blind that I sold on marketplace to four different people who never actually showed up.

My first marketplace sale turned out to be the wife of someone I work with. It made delivery easy.

I had a look at the job and still have no idea what it was, but it is at the other end of the street from Big Pig. Some sort of warehouse or something yet to be identified.

Empty is always a temporary state. I cleared it yesterday and it only lasted 40 seconds. I'm up to 5....make that 6 emails sitting there again now.

Funnily enough my family moved to the area (Croydon Hills) after my dad left the army. Not quite so fancy a house for us, and Eastland (in its early brown brick square format) was already there. I had a look at some records and we moved in '82, and I've mostly been in the area since then. Suburbia is definitely covering everything, and in higher density than ever before too.

I just realised that even though I was just involved in lots of peripheral fire brigade organisation stuff revolving around that I never actually looked at what was on fire 🤣 So yeah, something big was burning but I have no idea if there was any pig involved.

Ringwood would have still been nearly rural at that time! They were probably there when they moved the clock tower! My family would have moved to the area not long before you moved out. Now every time I look at the older houses I'm going to wonder if it has a garage lined with shipping container!

Edit: I have just noticed the excessive number of exclamation marks!!! I'm sorry! I got a bit over excited!!

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Having been in the same place nearly 20 years I find the thought of moving a bit terrifying. But at least I have a lot of decluttering done, it at least seems manageable.

My last move was only three blocks. The one before that was technically only two houses, but I had a holiday for 6 weeks and put everything into storage during that time. Moving to another country is totally outside the scale of my expertise.

For most of my life bank interest has not really been a thing, and for a long time they charged fees, so banking cost money instead. The last few years with high interest rates - plus an online bank that lets me earn interest on all my money without locking it away and jumping through hoops for "bonus" interest - has been great.