A big step!!! CURTAINS!!!!

To me curtains are huge! It looks like a home when there are curtains. I think we might still be in a grey area getting closer to 'home' since you can find hammers, nails, drills, molly bolts, wrenches, etc in many rooms of the house...but needless to say we are getting closer!! No longer can you find a ladder, or 3, INSIDE the house. They have all found their home in the garage! (Getting them out of the house was a huge step!) So often when people come over (That's right, now we feel comfortable having people over sometimes...woo hoo!! No parties YET but it is nice to have visitors and not be humiliated by ladders and construction mess!) they ask if we are tired of construction. I don't know how to explain it but to put it simply....no. It is so much fun and rewarding. I am my parents! They were ALWAYS working on the house. As soon as it seemed that everything was done and lovely, they would be ripping something else out, stripping off paint, sanding, sawing, sewing, stuffing, and mounting all over again. (Now that their house is done they are over at my house and Aimee's helping out! Thank goodness!! BUT they are gluttons for punishment!) I love where we are at now. We still have some major projects, but some rooms are ready to be decorated! For me that means sewing!! The past two weeks my job has been sewing curtains and pillows for the den. (With help on the curtains from mom!)

Sewing...Sewing...Sewing...


Mom is going to kill me for putting a picture of her on here :) She was amazing!!! She really did the hard part! IRONING! (Seriously! If it is ironed wrong it will look crazy!)


After sewing the 15ft curtains they had to be reversed to put the right sides out. Easier said than done! Thanks mommy!!!


I don't have a pic of it on my camera...but I painted that on the curtains. They were ivory silk. Then I painted the damask print going down the center of them. That is 60 yards of material painted!


Ty put the rod up and I put up the curtains.



The finished product (Well almost. I need to get ivory tassels and pull them up a bit. I will post a pic of that as soon as I do it.) Also there is our chandelier. I don't think it made it on the blog. Ty taking down the horrible gold fan was posted, but the chandelier never was. Well there it is!!!


PILLOWS! I sewed the pillows on my own. I had a 3 minute edging tutorial with mom as she left after working on curtains for 10 hours. Left to my own devices...I think I did pretty good. (The white pillows I painted when I painted the curtains. There is a close up of one of them.) I made all of the pillows except the 3 with large circles on them. Those came with the couch. Mocha had to hop in one picture of course. She always comes around when a camera is out. She is a natural model! :)




Our coffee table is an antique trunk that mom and dad had. I cleaned it and stained it to match the wood floors and Voila! Coffee Table! (We are going to get a glass top for it later this summer.)