Last entries!

Get voting quick for the one you like most of these last entries to our My home, my way: Bemz competition! The competition ends tomorrow. After a real lull last week, we have suddenly had a dash for the finish line! I guess the reminder in our newsletter* that went out last week got people moving.
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Jodi Brennan of Canada may be late out in entering the competition but once she set her mind to it she REALLY entered! Jodi sent in a slew of beautiful photos and numerous entries of which three have made it to It's a Cover Up.

The picture above is the first of those, and this is what Jodi had to say: Bemz helped make my home my way... By giving "me"...a slightly obsessive furniture maverick, the perfect outlet to showcase my compulsive need for change...I love, love, love, changing/rearranging my home and furniture... With Bemz I have a multitude of choices. My couch, shown here in a Bemz slipcover, is paired with cushions I made from your Bolster Striped-Eggshell Blue fabric. It all goes soooo nicely with the laid back feel of my other things... The blues, although not perfectly matched...blend together easily and make the couch look that much more comfortable.  And with three kids and a naughty dog...comfort "almost" wins out over style...well almost... Thankfully I do not have to choose!

Second entry from Jodi Brennan of Canada: Bemz helped make my home my way by having the perfect beachy fabric (Bolster-Eggshell Blue) to cover my Jenny Lund chair. The fabric is laid back and adapts well to the many wet bathing-suited bottoms that sit upon it in summer weather....the colours go sooo well with the ones in my home...anything from sand to white to light blue... The chair now cozies up effortlessly, in any space or any room that I put it... Next to a white couch or a blue chair or a tan ottoman...it doesn't matter...it just "goes" with our decor, our lifestyle, our family!

 

And finally, entry number three from Jodi Brennan of Canada: Bemz helped make my home my way by being the "stylish glue" that holds my living room together...let me explain... by tossing some throw cushions made with Bemz fabric onto my non-Ikea sofa...and by covering the Ektorp chair beside it, in the same Classic Ruta-Eggshell Blue...I can bring a room "together" without it looking too matchy-matchy....savvy?  Throw in a foot-stool in Bolster Stripe Eggshell Blue and the room becomes beautiful!! So no matter where I may move the furniture in my house (and there are numerous possibilities)...I can tie everything together and have "flow" by simply changing a slipcover and by recovering a couple of pillows! My family may not be able to sit down in the dark, without turning on a light first (to find out where the couch is now)...but the furniture sure looks good when they eventually find it!!!

Anja Weisscher of The Netherlands sent in this shot of her very busy sofa and a little ditty:
Bemz helped make my home my way...
By creating the perfect place to stay.
Every night there is a fight who sits where.
Our Bemz couch now has flair !!

These are just three of the many wonderful photos Anna Leonsson of Sweden sent in. Here's what she had to say: Bemz helped make my home my way ... Vi hoppas att Bemz ger oss en trebarnsfamilj möjlighet att få det vi drömmer om - ett nytt överdrag till vår soffa. Ända sedan vi köpte vår Karlanda-soffa har vi planerat att köpa en sommarklädsel till en varma, men mot bara ben stickiga, Ulltuna överdraget. Döm om vår förvåning när IKEA svarade att de inte sålde Karlanda modellen längre, dagen när vi väl bestämt oss!! Får man göra så, undrade jag upprört? Nja, det var förstås inte helt lyckat att modellen fanns med i det årets katalog, det höll kundtjänst med om. Den vänliga damen på IKEA informerade då om att det fanns dock en möjlighet till att köpa en mjuk sommarkostym till vår soffa... och så avslöjade hon att BEMZ fanns! I jämn följd har sedan våra barn anlänt, vilket skjutit upp inköpet. Nu känner vi oss dock mer än redo att införskaffa ett tvättbart överdrag som brunbenta sommarbarn med barfotafötter.

Roughly translated: Bemz helped make my home my way ... We hope that Bemz will give this family-of-five the opportunity to fulfill our dream - a new cover for our sofa. Ever since we bought our Karlanda sofa, we've wanted to buy a thin summer cover but warm enough for bare legs. When we finally decided to invest, imagine our surprise to find out IKEA no longer stocked the Karlanda range! Can you do that, I wondered outraged? Worse yet, they had forgotten to omit the model from that year's catalog. Fortunately, the friendly lady at IKEA informed us that there is one place we could buy a soft summer cover for our sofa... BEMZ! It's been one child after another since, which put the purchase off, but we now feel more than ready to get a washable cover in which our children's tanned legs and barefeet can curl up.

Comments

[jade mitchell]

Jodi's flair screams "classic easiness", I admire her for pulling together such a fabulous inter-changable setting with 3 kids and a dog in tow! Beautiful.....