I Plead The Crafter's 5th

Have you ever wanted to just plead the fifth on your crafting abilities?

The first time I desperately wanted to plead the crafter's fifth, when my husband looked at me and said, if you can make a pillow, you can make a fitted domed circus tent.

Or was the case when my husband asked me to make custom sails for not 1 but 2 of his English pond boats.

Those points at the very top are tough.

Then, there was the chair I dragged home from Goodwill.  The chair that cost me only $3.99.  The chair I fell immediately in love with.

The chair that my husband snubbed.  Oh, I should have pleaded the crafter's fifth on that one as well.

When my husband saw how I transformed that beautiful chair, a few weeks later, he proudly showed off his latest treasures picked from the streets...for free!

To be fair, I saw the potential those chairs had.

What I didn't see coming, though looking back probably should have, was the request for me to make custom cushions for these chairs.

Sigh. 

2 cushions down, 2 more to go.

I think from now on, I'll have to remember my right to plead the crafter's fifth.

The Big Top

One of my visions for our circus party is a big top tent.  A fort of sorts, for the kids to play in.  I was thinking a teepee draped with red and white fabric.

This task I left to my handsome husband.  Who insisted it was just as easy to make an actual big top tent than make a teepee.

Oh really, I said, as I sat and watched.

Look at how annoyed he looks.   I can only assume it's because, at this point in time, I was saying something like, yeah, that looks so much easier than a teepee.

He was, surprisingly, able to get the tent to this point, however unorthodox an approach he took.

Everything was starting to come together, even the structure for the domed top.

Then came the request, I knew was inevitable, the whole reason I wanted to do a simple teepee.  He asked me to sew a cover for this domed circus tent top.

Do I sew...sure.

Can I make a draped and fitted domed circus tent top...no.

In my head, I am trying to figure out how to customize a domed top.  Mind you, during this time, we also realized we ran out of red and white fabric so I was left to improvise with an old bed sheet.

I was growing more frustrated {measuring, cutting, remeasuring, re-cutting}, when my handsome husband says to me, if you can make a pillow you can make a fitted domed circus tent topper.

Are you kidding me?  If I can make a pillow, I can make a 4 sided, customized fitted domed circus tent topper.  REALLY.
 
So many things were running through my mind.  Things like, our wedding vows included for richer or poor, in sickness and in health BUT not a domed circus tent topper. 

In the end, our marriage survived.  I'm curious to hear, if you think the domed circus tent topper did as well?

Yeah, another cliffhanger, I know :)

You can find out if we were successful here.