A chaise by any other name...

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Dedicated to Artistic Endeavors of all Sorts

       I write. I read. 
I critique manuscripts. 

 * my own work 

 * my freelance clients' 

 * my students' 

I whine. I complain. 

I roam around the house, 

from hard back chair to ergonomic home office model,

to kitchen counter stool.

And on occasion I solve my own problems.

My "shaze"

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I grew up calling these a chaise lounge. "Shaze lowwnge"

However, that seems to be an Americanization (ok, bastardization) of 

zee French: chaise longue. Long chair. 

A few years back author Penny Dawn & I ran this around. 

     I was her mentor, supervising her masters thesis, the wonderfully sexy Measuring Up whose wonderfully sexy hero owned one. I can't remember which spelling she used but I questioned it. She asked her decorator mother for a third opinion. (Mine being the second)

     More recently I've heard a news anchor and some HGTV house hunters pronounce it chase long. Chase long?  <clutches draperies>

Whatever the pronunciation, I own one. 

     It was bought second hand, supported my snowboarding youngest following collarbone surgery, then put in a stint at my daughter's. By the time I got it back the cushion covers were gone. It's neither my style nor my colors. But it's incredibly comfortable & had potential as a perfect solution. 

Per usual I was long on creativity & short on funds.

$21.00 plus tax got me a room-size painter's drop cloth. 

A week's worth of long hours, 
more hand sewing than I'd anticipated, 
& BAND-AIDs (to keep blood from my pricked fingers from staining) 

produced my slipcovered chaise longue.

C'est la perfect respite from hard backed chairs & stiff kitchen stools.
C'est also perfect for zee lounging.


VOILA! 

That's French for comfy solution.