Were making a foot stool!!

[Dragonkort]

Growing up my mother nick named me clamity jane....there was a reason for that lol its not so much that i am clumbsy....which i am to a small degree....but because no matter what it is im doing my mind is on the next thing on my list lol....Now i do have a foot stool on my lazy boy...but the handle is broken for putting the foot stool up and down...we have a visegrip on the handle but I am unfrountly not strong enough to use it.  I got around that problem by simply leaving the foot stool up all the time and it has worked great until recently....For what ever reason these days when im getting in and out of my chair I seem to be tripping over the foot stool. falling into the chair is no proublem, but falling while getting out...is not as soft lol an spike is afraid im going to fall one of these days and break something....I dont think my bones are that brittle yet but since i dont really like falling out of my chair i suggested we just get a regular footstool.  We could not believe how much footstools cost these days!! geezz!! or you proubly do know. Well I told spike im not paying that much for something just to put my feet on and suggested we just make one. after all there not that hard to make.  now i wanted him to leave the box opened so i could put things in it but he said no....because i would stuff it full of everything but the kitchen sink and make it to heavy to move even with wheels on it.  any way here are some pictures of what we have done so far. we just used wood we had in the wood shop. thie first picture is of the footstool with out a top on it.The second picture is of the bottom of the footstool and a picture of the footstool with the wooden top laying on top of it. and the last picture is the footstool with the foam sitting on the top.we picked up some upholistry materal to cover the foam with . Its a dark brown and i will see about putting that on tomarrow. I had thought of doing some carving on the sides but this wood is recycled from the first tort we built for sissy which was to small and besides I decided I could put pockits on the sides of the footstool if I cover it. The sides wont match the top because the upholstry materal i have here is light or dark gray. I'll use which ever is big enough to go all the way around the 4 sides.  Now i was going to put machine emboridy on the materal I use for the pockets BUT i found some pretty flower uphouslty materal  in my stash and im going to use that instead....for one thing its stronger then just regular materal and i'll use the pockets to put my external hard drive and my external cd drive in. as well as my case with all my jump drives in it.  There will be at least 4 pockets depending onhow big i make each pocket.  I'll put my note books in one of the pockets and i'll most likely make a smaller pocket on that pocket to put pens in as i can NEVER find my pens lol and i know my little camcorder/ camra in a little pocket to.... this is of course a work in progress and we have no pattern for making it so were just playing it by ear lol so depending on how things go the covers for it might change lol .  Iv also got the few woodcarvings iv done polyurthined and waiting for them to dry. I didnt take pics of them yet because there with the  3d printed projects iv finished painting and polyurthing... When they dry i'll put those pictures up to.... not sure what im going to do next lol