Window Makeover #2--Playroom

I finished the window treatment for the playroom (once was my dining room, the boys have too many toys, LOL) these were harder than the kitchen for the obvious reason, there was more fabric to work with. Nevertheless, I was able to finish this project in about 8 hours that includes lining the fabric, making the window seat cushion, making the throw pillows and hanging them. Total cost was:

Drapery Fabric--$32.64

Checked Fabric--$8.48

Drapery Lining--$15.24

Buttons for seat cushion--$1.00

Hooks--$8.97

Total Cost--$66.33

Screened-In-Porch Sneak Peek

I finally have started decorating the screened-in-porch, yesterday I found this great bird cage at KMart marked down to $12.00, I found the ugly pink cushions at Goodwill for $1.00 each (there are 3 of them), I already had the fabric so I thought I would cover two of the cushions for the porch and save one for the playroom. Take a look and let me know what you think of the colors. Have a great day!

Window Makeover #1--Kitchen

I'm so excited, I have finished my first ever window treatment and I love it!! I have learned a lot today and I see several mistakes that I will avoid on the next window treatment. In the word's of the Nester, It doesn't have to perfect to be beautiful. I will post more tomorrow on the playroom treatment, I thought that I would start in the kitchen and work my way around the downstairs. The total cost of this project is $9.00 ($1.25 drapery lining, $2.75 Waverly decorator fabric, $5.00 rod). Take care and have a great evening.

Summer Days

My DH had to work all weekend so the boys and I decided to spend all day Sunday by the pool, we went out about 10:30am in the morning and stayed out all day with the exception of eating lunch and taking a little break in the early afternoon. I'm so thankful that we have a pool, it is great exercise and the it passes so much time for the children seeing as there is so little to do in our very small town. I really needed the down time, so I gathered a few of my favorite magazines, my cordless phone and tanning oil (I know, I know) and I was a very relaxed lady. I hope where ever you are that you are having a bright sunny summer day!

Shopping

I have been a shopping fool this week trying to gather the things that I will need to redo what once was the dining room and will now be known as the game room/playroom. I have found fabric to "mistreat" the window, spray paint to rehab the the furniture and a great rug for $39. The things that need to be done in the room are:

change the light fixture

paint the furniture

make a mistreatment for the window

make a seat cushion and pillows for the window seat

find a new place to store ebay things (YIKES)

I will post pictures of the transformation and in all fairness I am posting a before picture today, keep in mind that I have cleaned the room out since the photo was taken on Tuesday. Any suggestions for the room will be greatly appreciated.

Also, I want to say thank you to the Nester, Melissa and Meredith for the advice on my screened in porch, I'm working on it and I will post pictures of the progress soon.

Have a great day!

Sunday Supper

We had a beautiful day yesterday so I decided to cook supper for my husband's grandparents, they are such dear & wonderful people. Papaw loves anything homemade and often talks about things that his mother made for him years ago. So I took my sons blackberry picking, we have enough wild blackberries growing on our little country road to feed a small village and our neighbors seem to ignore them, I can't stand to watch them dry up on the vines so we loaded up in the trusty mule and off we went! What a great experience for my sons, they had never done anything like this before, when we got back home we washed the berries and ate a few but I had plenty left to make an old fashion cobbler for Papaw. These are the kind of memories that I wish for my sons, to know that their mother was crazy enough in 90 degree weather to pick berries for a cobbler instead of going to the grocery store to buy them, some things in life are priceless and this was one of those moments, the questions that they had for me and hearing the laughter from their sweet little boy voices when I climbed on the seats of the mule with my BBQ tongs in hand trying reach the ripe berries at the top was worth more to me than anything in the world!

What Would You Do?

Okay bloggers I need help with my screened in porch--what would you do with this space, keep in mind that I need to do this on a budget, I have about $100 for this project. The things that I have for the porch are: a white rocking chair, a yellow serving cart from the 60's, 3 yards of yellow floral fabric and 2 yards of a sage green gingham fabric and a sewing machine. I can't wait to see what you all come up with.