Abstract Art: What to do when your two year old turns your furniture into a canvas.

It can happen to the best of us. Turn your head for a minute and... a new piece of artwork has magically appeared in some new, creative location.

In one case, a customers child had taken a sharpie to their leather furniture and the result was not quite museum worthy. Fortunately, they had the presence of mind to clean some of it off before it set, though a section of color was removed in the process. We were able to redye and refinish the area (yet another work of art) but for future reference to all you parents out there with young children in the home....

If a permanent marker or similar object is used on your leather, you may be able to remove most of it if you move fast enough. Take a Q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol and use it to remove the ink. Be sure to ONLY use it on the line of the marker, as you want to avoid removing the finish as much as possible. Pinching the leather into folds may help with this. Again, make sure you move fast, and may we suggest providing another artistic outlet for your young Monet? Crayola makes mess free markers that may be a good investment.