It's been difficult lately to focus, but I wanted to share with you my Tutorial: Burlap Trimmed Drop Cloth Curtains. Our Burlap Trimmed Drop Cloth Curtains I made for our dinning room. As promised here's the tutorial. There were a few things I wished I knew about drop cloths before I started this project [...]
Smiles peeps! Today I am going to show you how to make a Shabby Cottage Flower! The fabrics you'll use will obviously affect the look of your flower. Let's get started.. 1) Freehand 4 different flower shapes on paper (don't worry, perfect is not a good thing)! The flowers.... The largest flower has 4 pedals, [...]
Smiles my friends, I don't know how I didn't know the Charmer has always wanted to be a cottage. It's in her genes so to speak, it's who she is. My first 15 years the Charmer was decorated in a country sytle! That seems to fit just fine! Then I went in the direction of [...]
Smiles, My curtains are done, and I'm so very happy how they turned out. For the last two weeks I've been busy making the curtains - they were not hard to make; the calculations almost did me in! But, I'm Still Standing...Yeah..Yeah... After looking at numerous photos of cafe curtains here, and here This photo [...]
Smiles, Oi Vey, I've been working on these curtains for what seems like for.eve.er. Actually just over two weeks.. Of hair pulling, mind bending, calculus challenging hurdles. The curtains themselves were not hard to do but the calculations caused me to pull at my hair, kick pillows, act like a crazy women, say bad words, [...]
Smiles, Hope everyone is having a great day! It's expected to be in the 80's today, yahoo! I'm a big sewer, love it! The last few years my sewing has focused on home decor, but want to start sewing for myself again! My inspiration always comes from Jo-Ann's and Hancock Fabrics when they have their [...]
Smiles, Last week I showed you some inspiration for my curtains, Cafe curtains, I stumbled across this photo from Traditional Home, and realized today's Cafe curtains... are NOT what hung at Grandma's House! Isn't orange in right now? The curtains are for our main living area - and the "casual/formal" look is what I'm after! [...]
Smiles Everyone, Hope you all are having a great day. Day 4 of my pillow challenge. Today's' pillow is inspired by the new color scheme going on in our main living area. Berry and yellow will be our accent colors. I fell in love with these two cottons. The one on the left is Look [...]
Smiles Everyone, We typically don't' decorate for St. Paddy's Day, the only "Irish" I have in me is that my Dad and his brother Leonard graduated from Notre Dame. My Dad loved anything to do with Notre Dame, and my memories are filled with attending Notre Dame basketball and the Fighting Irish. Oh, how he [...]
Smiles Everyone, Today I finished my first Valentine's project. Since I love to sew I decided to start with a pillow. This pillow could easily be done without sewing. This is the fabric I had in my stash pile. For the body of the pillow I used white lining fabric. I used a 16" pillow [...]
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