Operation Upcycle MY SOFA

Remember,I already told you earlier in one of my posts about my white IKEA sofa and how it is TOTALLY wrong to buy white couches when you have kids <----click here for the post 

Well, one lovely April morning ,I saw this "Operation Upcycle MY SOFA" contest post on a timeline of one of my FB friends and immediately decided to join in, as I have (hopefully,not for long) the most STAINED IKEA sofa EVER .

The rules were simple (see beyond) 

So I collaged  some of the photos from my own Redesign/Cover the stains on the Sofa operation and uploaded it to the competition with a hope in my heart to take the big price home :)

AND my prayers where received !!!

I AM the Grand Prize Winner of this contest !!!!!!!!!

and NOT only have I won the big $500 price,the folks  from Comfort Works and IKEAfans have contacted me a week ago to offer me a special BONUS!

They liked mine and Sierra's doodles on the sofa so much ,that they hated the  art to go to waist,thus they offered me to ship the drawn slipcovers to their workshop and make cushion covers of them for me 

"We fell in love with your art on your existing seat covers and Susan from IKEAFANS, thought of a great idea to turn them into new pillow covers. And we agreed!

Of course, the workmanship and additional material will be fully sponsored by Comfort Works, while IKEAFANS has generously offered to cover postage fees (up to $50) for the sending your covers to our workshop.  

We wanted to know what do you think- before we made the announcement. Would this be something you'd be interested in?"

What do I think?.... I THINK IT"S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How neat is that^^

I can only say one thing for sure-BEING CREATIVE PAYS UP!!!!!!
And now ,I'll head off to the FABULOUS Comfort Works website to pick up a new fabric for my NEW slipcovers -YEY !!!!

and of course,as soon as I'll get my new sofa covers and cushions ,I promise to show pics and  brag   :D

ALWAYS KEEP CREATIVE PROCESS GOING !

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White Sofa...Is it really a good idea

Two years ago we bought an IKEA couch with WHITE slipcovers-WHAT A HUGE MISTAKE!!!
Of course we knew the mistake we are making right at that time,but it was on sale ...and I knew that I can always dye the slipcovers to a different color if I'd choose to...
A week after we got the sofa,Sierra (my 4.5 yr. old ) drew some outrageous blue doodles on the shazlong with a non removable marker (of course...could that possibly be drawn with any other marker-only the non removable type :D )
And Yes,I did flipped -who want to see a HUGE blue doodle on a new WHITE couch ....But hey,somewhere deep inside we knew it's gonna happen,so we let it pass and added to the doodles like about thousand of other stains ...And so,after seeing  the cutest doodle chair on Pinterest  I decided to go for it and doodle away on my sofa too.
I collected some inspiration and drew outlines for Sierra to color in-a GREAT mommy and daughter activity I may add! And so ,during a week we drew the stains away :) Each dirty spot got it's own drawing cover up and any additional ones that will follow will earn the same treatment-so it's a progressing work of art-our sofa that is


Here is our creative process-

BEFORE

Covering the doodles with a large print of bus trolley art

 I drew the line-art 

 Sierra and Sheluv were responsible for the coloring 

*use water resistant fabric markers

adding more and more illustrations to cover the stains 

What do you say? I think it's pretty neat :)

A couch that is also a piece of art

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