Mousepad

Mr. Bird bought a new laptop not too long ago. It had a touch pad but no external mouse. We finally bought a mouse after getting super frustrated with the touch pad.  The new mouse is a smaller optical mouse and we used the mouse pad we had - an old plastic one that said Dell on it. Not attractive and so dark that the mouse didn't even register it. Now finally to the point... I decided to cover the old mouse pad with something to make it "new." I first tried a page from an old atlas. It was a map  of America but neither of us liked it too much so I tried again. I have touches of red in almost every room of my house so I immediately went for red. I wish I could tell you something about this fabric but I have no idea where it came from. It's as if the fabric gods made it appear in my stash. I covered the pad with mod podge then smoothed on the fabric. I let it dry, trimmed the edges, then applied 2 more layers of mod podge. It was way too rough so I sanded it a bit with fine grit sand paper and it was just right. Even Mr.Bird likes it.