now is the time for present shopping and parties galore!
my family has been hounding me for months for my wish list. an initial email went out mid-october, then responses slowly trickled in, until i was the only one who hadn't responded. ever since i moved into my apartment i have known what i wanted... a couch. i have almost nothing to sit on; just a couple of dining chairs and my bed. neither of which are good for cuddling with the boyfriend. (he zonks out easily on the bed.) as much as writing to my entire family with just that one thing isn't that hard of a task, i wanted to put something together to bring the point home.
for weeks i had this idea. i'd google a bit here and there during work or in the evenings at my boyfriend's (i didn't have internet at my place for a long time.) finally i got around to doing it.
i took an image of the couch i wanted from ikea and the initial photo of my living room. i put the living room image into autocad and drew sight lines. then i plopped the image of the couch under the sight lines to get vertical reference lines. i then started to form the edges and lines of the couch.
in adobe illustrator, i opened the living room photo and scaled it to the size i wanted (so that it would show fully in an email.) i then opened the autocad file of the couch (illustrator can open autocad files.) a little copy and paste, and some arrangement of type and i was done!
do you like it? i'm hoping to be able to buy the couch without using any of my own money. cross your fingers!!!
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