So I haven’t been very good about making my bed lately…so I decided to make some new pillows, so it’s exciting and new again. I am really bad about putting away my laundry and every night when I get ready for bed I leave all my clothes in a heap on the bench at the end of the bed. Then after two weeks or so go by and the heap is really big, I put them away…and they are all mine, nothing of my husbands. I think I am just so tired by the end of the day, it’s all I can do to put myself to bed.

This is after I’ve fallen asleep on the couch and have woken up at 1am and drag myself up to bed. (These are the nights Heber’s at work)… because the nights he’s home, I still fall asleep while we are watching tv, but the difference is he gets up and takes my blanket away and flips the light on before he heads upstairs.

And I can say for the past week since I’ve had my new bedding…my clothes have gotten put away every night. My room is a lot cuter when it’s clean.

I made changed my euro pillows to a solid gray.. then I found just enough of this green stripe in my stash to do the front of the standard pillows. I backed them with some tan linen. Then I reused the front pillows from my front room. I love when I can go through my pillow covers and find some that I can reuse.

I am still in love with the mini white linen ruffle. But I am definitely in love with the Menswear look right now too…so I figured I’d do a little of both.

I actually like the tan linen on the back of the stripe. I also love the stripe going horizontally (good thing, cause that’s the only way it’d work with how much fabric I had).

Here’s the whole bed. I still need to make the new cushion cover for the end of the bed…but that’s for another day. The bench at the end of the bed was a coffee table.

Here are new pillows for the front room. The last ones I made (red ruffle) was just for holiday. I knew I wanted something different for the new slipcovers…so this was always the plan, I just barely got around to it. The stripe pillow was a homemade curtain from a thrift store that I got for $3. I cut it up and made pillows. The velvet pillow was from some fabric samples I got from Restore they were 10/$1….so I bought 50 different samples for $5!

This houndstooth pillow (turquoise/cream) was from my pillow cover stash that I had made a few years back.

Close up of the homemade curtain pillow (turquoise/brown)

The center of this pillow was from my 10/$1 sample fabrics

I pieced a bunch of the samples into a footwarmer for my bed…I liked it but it wasn’t completely me….so luckily I had sewn a solid gray fabric on the back (reversible). I ended up using that side instead.

 Close up of the footwarmer.

Side note ….here is baby Milo with 2 of my boys and the twins. My boys are begging me to snuggle, so I’d better get going.

Here’s another chair I did for a client. Luckily she had bought an extra 2 yard piece that she was using as a makeshift tablecloth. I took it with just in case we needed it to get the ottoman done. I used every bit of fabric!

Before muslin chair…ready for a new slipcover.

After tan/cream floral…

Another after shot.

I liked this black gingham pillow she had on the bench behind the chair. I always think everything needs a pillow on it to finish it off.

Close up of the front.

I just finished making new pillows for my bed and front room, so I’ll be posting those pics soon. I leave in 9 days to head to AZ to run the ragnar relay there. I can’t wait to be in 70 degree weather running in shorts showing off my tan (white skin with freckles)!

My sister is having her baby on Thursday! Can’t wait to meet baby Milo. I am taking her 4 year old twins for a few days while she has the baby. My kids can’t wait for all the sleepovers we are going to have this weekend. I am going to get to hang out with a little girl! Imagine that, I am not sure what little girls like to do. Angie is going to send lots of crafting stuff. I might even help her sew something.

I did this chair about 6 years ago for this client, and she was ready to change it up. She had gold/red before and now she’s going for tan and blue with a little bit of a Menswear look. Her pillows hadn’t arrived yet that were going to pull everything together. So I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get to see the full finished product. She had ordered a new couch as well. The pillows were actually a Navy blue medallion looking fabric….it was the same fabric as the red pillows in the Sundance Cabin post.

Chair before…just muslin covered ready for a slipcover.

After in a blue window pane plaid fabric.

Here you can see the fabric a little better. Of course I matched up all the stripes.

Close up of the back cushion.