If you are my mother please stop reading now. Oh well, you now know what your Valentine’s Day package will bring. Sorry for the spoiler. I spotted this project in the February 2012 issue of Country Living while awaiting my allergy shot last week and just had to add this one to the “To-Do” list. Here…
OH, NO! Not another pillow post!!! Sorry folks. This is the one that really should have started it all, but I went about my business of fixing up the family room sofa a little backwards. My reasons for wanting new pillows in that space started because of this: While taking pictures during a furniture switcheroo…
As you all read last week, I scored some nice designer remnant upholstery fabrics a few weeks ago at Joann’s for a song and have been diligently making new pillows to spruce up our family room. I already showed off the simple envelop style pillows I created with a heavy ruffled edge, now I wanted…
My recent pillow making craze had me up a tree when it came to the cost of inserts. As you probably figured out already, I am pretty much a total cheapskate…actually, I am frugal! Yes, that’s the word, frugal. I don’t skimp when it matters, but sometimes it really doesn’t matter, ya’ know? Well, pillow…
A recent visit to Joann’s ETC., landed a bunch of really nice designer fabric remnant bundles at 50% off. So, I took this as a sign and a que to get started on some much needed family room pillows. Although I was hoping to work in some super fun prints I realized that not knowing what…
I am currently working on some tweaks in my own wardrobe for the fall and winter. As I mentioned earlier this week, I shopped The Clothesline Consignment Sale and I did manage to come home with a few things to help revive my closet. Most of what I purchased will end up being altered in some…
You may have spied the recent additions to my FLICKR account, which include a couple of my vintage quilts. I wrote about using them to decorate and quiet an echo chamber hallway in my home over at Kitsch Designs. Both quilts were old and tattered when I gained position of them years ago. Rather than fixing them…
I have been working on a mini-makeover in our playroom/media room/exercise room/man cave space and wanted to share the window valance I made to coordinate with the other window treatment. For more information about the work-in-progress mini-makeover please head over to Kitsch Designs for all the details. This is another one of those projects where…
I’m not gonna lie, I had no idea how to title this post. I don’t have a clue what the correct name should be for this little thingy that I made for my son’s first day in preschool, but what I typed will have to suffice. Late, the night before his first long day away…
Right after purchasing a brand new backpack for my son his preschool teacher informed us that they prefer the kids to use tote bags. Wah-wuh. Of course the reason behind this preference is more than perfectly acceptable- it helps the little ones get their precious artwork home without crumpling it all up. Ok, I get…
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