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| This is Bossy the Cow (hide)- well, it probably was a steer once - that our kids bought us a few years ago. |
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| This little footstool is next to become a Bossy Footstool. |
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| After looking all over town for an ottoman to recover, I picked my old, faithful pine coffee table. |
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| By removing the drop leaves, Laney and I made a bench. |
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| She's a good worker. |
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| Yup, it works as a bench so far. |
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| This green stuff will make it even more comfy. We like comfy. |
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| The steer hide draped over - there will be plenty! |
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Trimming the 3" foam to fit the old
top of the coffee table, now bench. |
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| Done - needs some more trimming. |
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| It is passing Molly's comfy-ness test. |
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Stapled straps to roughly keep it in place - I didn't want to glue
the foam to the table. |
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A stapled silky cover to further keep the foam
in place and to be a liner for the steer skin. |
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| Helper Extraordinaire. |
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| Looks good underneath, too. |
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| The hide is cut to fit and stapled underneath the bench. |
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Almost done - just some decorative tacks for the thicker
ends need to be applied. |
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| Now it's done. |
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| In two parts when we found him - fixed him and put him up. |
The steer hide continues a theme of dead animals in our living room. It really is nice that people will spend time with us. Critters are staring from all angles. Poor things. The only way I can live here is that we did not kill any of them. We bought them after their demise.
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| Coony - so cute and fuzzy |
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| Prongy - as old as Phil and me!! |
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Her poor tail was falling off, but we
fixed her and now she stares out of
a china cupboard. |
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Of course, to complete the ensemble,
the ever popular and rare Jackalope,
ringed with feathers from some exotic
bird, I'm sure. |
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| The Bossy Bench - also to be used as a footrest for the sofa. I like it. |
