Wordy Pillows

I’ve been looking for rectangular pillows for my sofa for awhile now, but nothing seemed to fit. I’m picky.

I happen to find the perfect fabric (yep on sale from over $8 a yard to $1.50) and decided it was time to try freezer paper. I found a quote I loved, cut my stencil and used fabric medium.

 

I really like them and love the old world-ish, not perfect writing to them.

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Headboard Love

There were no tears this time! (if you are wondering what the heck that means, please check out THIS post)

Here is the finished headboard and I L.O.V.E, be my valentine-hugs and kisses, LOVE IT!

The whole headboard will be about 1ft taller once it’s hung. It is just resting on the box springs in this picture since I was too impatient excited to wait.

I wish you could actually see the crystals I used for the tufting, but they seem to be camera shy. I swear I tried all but hanging from the ceiling to get a good picture and it was.not.happening.

Here is the best I could get.

The new fabric is so soft to the touch and has the most amazing texture. Bonus, it is such a perfect neutral so I can change my mind which happens A LOT all I like and it will still work.

Total cost was less than $70! (more than half of that was for FOAM!)

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Mostest Awesomeness Headboard….Maybe

Hi, I’m CLB and I have been living without a headboard for 6 months now.

(insert the Awwww’s and shameful look HERE.)

I’ve wanted a headboard like this

But didn’t want to pay a BAZILLION dollars for it! So what is a girl to do… DIY it!

I headed to the lumber store with two males of the engineering sort in tow, BIG MISTAKE. People, if you want to be out of the store in less than 5 hrs, (full of structural debate) I suggest going alone.

There I picked up this board for around $6 for a 4X8 sheet and had the nice people cut it down to the width of my mattress and then in half (to fit in my car)

Once home I put the two sheets together with 5 (3 on the back, 2 on the front) of these metal brackets

At this point the “inspector” will probably visit to make sure you’re doing things properly.

Inspector- “Ahh, I see you’re working on something here, is it for me?”

Inspector-“You just keep going, I think you might be doing it right”

Inspector-“Lets just go with this, if I put my head right here, every time you turn the screwdriver I get pet, It’s WIN WIN!”

It’s hard to go on after that but here we go.

I then measured and cut my molding. (By I, I mean one of the engineering sort I spoke of earlier)

Then measure around the edges for molding placement and adhere your foam with spray adhesive.

Then cover with batting.

Then cover with your material and staple around the edges.

THEN, discover the nails for the trim are just slightly too short and decide to take it into the room and hold it behind the bed to see how much you love it and instead………

burst into tears saying you hate it because the fabric that looked good in different light now C.L.E.A.R.L.Y has green and pink stripes that you HATE.

Sooooooooo

While I had hoped to have an awesome headboard to show, instead I have a bazillion staples to remove before putting on my new fabric and posting pictures. (This weekend!)

 

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Aprons

I thought I would take a minute to show all of you a sneak of what I’ve been so busy helping with lately

Is that not the cutest thing! I swear it is just cute enough to make me want to cook. Does warming things up count as cooking if you wear a cute apron?

I think so!

Here is a cute Halloween apron

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Tufted Ottoman

This is my before picture *Warning, it’s scary!*

Don’t you just love the bigger than your head flowers?

This was a hand me down (FREE!) and didn’t look like this till the HB flopped down on it one day. RIIIIIIPPPPPPP.

Some people might have decided it was ready for the trash at this point…… you know I considered it till I priced large ottomans! Not only was the price not happening, I couldn’t seem to find another ottoman that was the perfect sofa/foot height so it had to stay.

It hid in shame till the day I found this

By the way, that’s a faux fur coat, no animals were harmed in the making of this post, or coat!

Yep, that’s right……I found almost a whole roll of upholstery fabric at goodwill for $9 in the exact color I had wanted. I may or may not have laughed to myself and said “not anymore” in my head when asked by another goodwill shopper “Oh, they have fabric here?”.

The ottomans time had come, I flipper her over, unscrewed the legs and pulled out a MEEEEEEELLLLLIIIOOOONNN of these

I was finally ready to start the beautification.

I knew I wanted to tuft the top and asked the HB if he would drill me a couple holes for tufting. That may have been a mistake, because what I figured would take about 5 minutes ended up being HOURS as he mapped out several different tuft layouts in AUTOCAD. Yes that’s right ladies, in a man’s world you need AUTOCAD to tuft.

  This is my end result

 

Beautiful, AND not a bit of sewing!

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