I'm SO tired. Last night (this morning, rather) I didn't go to bed until 4:30. Why? Oh, no reason. I just wanted to veg out a little & work on a little redesign. When Penelope greeted me this morning with her happy, smiling face I wondered why the heck I went to bed so late. It's like I'm in college all over again. I was planning on making my leather camera strap & sharing that with you, but I'm going to take a nap instead. I will, however share with you a little project I did about 3 years ago & never blogged about. I refinished a boppy pillow that a friend gave me. It was a light blue velvet hand-me-down that was uglier than sin (like this one, but blue). Why are so many baby products covered in velvet/velour? IT GETS SO GROSS!! Formula/breastmilk & baby bodily fluids DON'T play nicely with velvet. I never took a before picture and I threw out that old velvet cover as quickly as I could. Covering this pillow was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I covered this pillow with upholstery weight cotton material (found at Fabmo). I just took the old cover, flattened it and used it as a guide to cut the fabric & sewed them together. I thought I'd be clever & put the zipper on the inside curve. I didn't want to see a zipper; but as it turns out, putting a zipper on the inside of a curve makes it nearly impossible to put the pillow form in the case. I think I fought with the pillow for about 40 minutes to get the cover on. That's okay though. I'll gladly pay that price to avoid a yucky velvet cover.