I have accidentally become a piano teacher. Now, I know what you’re thinking, how can that possibly happen accidentally??
Well, believe me it can. Just open your mouth, without any forethought at all, and volunteer to help a friend by teaching her little girl to play piano. Then add your two girls as students. Then have another friend hear that you’re teaching and again, without a moment’s thought or a predetermined goal of becoming a teacher, volunteer to teach her kids, too. Whamo! You’ll be a piano teacher with 5 students! Amazing!
So, getting to the point, because I have recently acquired some piano students, it has come to my attention that the finish on the piano bench leaves something to be desired. Imagine the embarrassment of my poor students when they stand up from the bench and leave behind a big backside mark/imprint on the bench. An embarrassing moment, believe me!
So yesterday, in between driving the big girls to school, napping and feeding the little girls, and heading back to the school for a talent show, I decided to recover the piano bench.
This sounds crazy, but it was totally do-able because I didn’t try to sew anything. I am at odds with my sewing machine, or in other, words I dislike or possibly even hate that thing. Anytime I touch it, I’m looking at a 10-hour project, at least! And that usually includes around 8 hours of just rethreading my needle.
To recover the bench, I only used fabric and a trusty glue gun. I wanted to use a staple gun but I couldn’t find ours. (My Dear Husband recently reorganized the garage/tools and I don’t know where he stashed it. Imagine, losing something because of organization! Geesh!) Oh, I guess I used a screw driver, too, to take the top off the bench. And scissors! to cut the fabric!
Here are the pictures:
the "before" picture
measuring the fabric
Voila! The "after" picture
I already had the cheetah fabric that I used, so I didn’t need to buy one single thing.
My girls think it doesn’t match, but I love it. It was free, it was a fun project, and most importantly, it will shield my students from future mortifications!
