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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Leaving on a Jet Plane...

February 03, 2011 5 Comments
Ok, so another song is in my head. Leaving on a jet plane.....don't know when I'll be back again....
Remember that scene in Armageddon? Love it when Michael Clark Duncan and Steve Buscemi join in. :) In fact I'm going to share it with y'all. :)
There. Wasn't that nice? Don't much care for Mr. Affleck, but I do love that his oldest is named Violet, and she's about Dev's age. :)  Ok so I have majorly strayed from my point, but you guys are used to that aren't you? Ah well, at least the song has something to do with the content of the post. I was able to go get some more Cherry Red thread and finish up those curtains of Devlin's! Yay! It only took twice as long as it should have because I ran out of thread! Whoopie!

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

You know what they say....

February 02, 2011 0 Comments
So remember when I told you guys that I was working on an even simpler curtain transformation that I would show you guys today? You know....when I said that yesterday? Well you know what they say about the best laid plans....
Yea....It was that kind of day. I ran out of thread after only getting one curtain up. Hopefully tomorrow I can run out to get some more. Otherwise...well...otherwise you're going to see the ghetto pictures I had planned putting up until I remembered that I had yet to show off Bet's creation! My grandmother made me a roman shade for the window above my sink! Unfortunately I don't know how she did it, because I've never made one, but I do know that we went to Walmart and I picked out a chocolate suede thermal panel (for $15) and she created gorgeousness!

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

The Making of Eh to Awe

February 01, 2011 0 Comments
I hadn't originally planned on having this as 2nd post, but after thinking on it, and realizing just how photo-laden it was. I decided that it would be better. So without much ado....let's get going! 

The very first thing you need to do is decided how you want your finished curtains to look. I decided that I wanted these curtains to be back tab with the new fabric on the top. I decided this for a couple reasons: 1- because the fabric was on the heavier end of the mid-weight scale so having it up against the curtain rod would make it fold better and 2 - because its easier to alter the top of a curtain. Ok so the latter is not true, but it sounded really darn good. :) Before I did any altering I washed the curtain panels. The new fabric is Dry Clean Only....so it didn't get touched.