A Little Outdoor Snoozie

Sometimes, nothing beats an afternoon nap outside.

We have a hammock.  The kids gave it to Sean for Father’s Day a few years back, and that hammock looks so inviting to take an afternoon snooze; rest your eyes; close them peepers.

Sean takes a nap in his hammock all the time.  But when I go to lie in the hammock, my elbow or some other appendage goes through one of the holes, or better yet, when I’m trying to adjust, I flip right over onto the ground.

I don’t care for that.

So I set out on the hunt for a couch for our back patio near the fire pit, and I visited my sweet friend of mine at her antique shop.  She had exactly what I wanted, but it was missing a cushion.

No problem.  I’ll make one.

I cut a piece of ply wood to size.  I went to the local fabric store and got a piece of five inch thick foam that measured the same size as how I needed the seat cushion to be.  Then I picked out a fabric that matched well with the patio, and our back porch.

I laid the fabric down on the floor, then topped it with the foam cushion, then placed the ply wood on top of the foam.  I wrapped the cushion like a present and stapled the fabric to the plywood.  10 minutes later, I had a couch cushion.

It was really that simple.  Ready for business;  err a nap on the back patio.

Don’t mind if I do!