Just received another nice email today…just thought I’d share.

In the meantime, I just got back from the “Blue Water Rafting” tour in Maui. Just think of a big raft with a motor on it exploring the lava fields and lava caves on the south end of the island. We also saw whales and dolphins that were about 20 ft away from the raft…CRAZY!!! They stopped at a couple corals reefs for us to jump overboard and snorkel. Then they had lunch ready for us afterwards. I highly recommend them for a tour if you are coming to Maui. It’s a smaller group size 24 max, I think we only had about 15 people.

Anyhow… onto the email.

Shelley,
This is Christiana. I just wanted to say hey. I can’t tell you how helpful your video and sources have been in getting my business going. I’m pretty happy with how things are going….have a long way to go though! And I LOVE stopping by your website from time to time to get inspired again when I am feeling discouraged, it always motivates me to keep on going when I am thinking what in the world am I doing?!?
Hope you and your family had a great Christmas.
Thanks so much for everything!

This job was for a cabin up at Sundance Ski Resort. The cabin has an amazing view…a whole wall of windows with the fireplace. There was no snow the day I came to pick up everything, and a week later when I came to drop it off there was tons of snow.

 This is a picture of the before…it’s purple, I know it’s hard to tell

 Another shot of the before for the chair, it’s purple as well.

After of the whole room, I did a couch, 2 chairs and 2 ottomans and some pillows. The couches were out of a chunky grey linen. Heavy weight and thick…it was BEAUTIFUL! The pillow were out of a charcoal dark grey and the red of course.

After of just the couch.

Pillows turned out great too. I loved all the colors and the cabin feel.

Close up of the chair and ottoman

Here is a shot of the whole room….check out those windows!!!

WELL Ladies….I am off to Maui tomorrow for a week, a condo opened up really last minute (5 days ago) with our timeshare. So I am leaving behind this 7 degree weather for 80 degree weather and some sunshine. So if I don’t answer your email right away this is why.

 With my time off I finally got to finish my $10 bench for the cabin that I picked up at the thrift store.

Now on to my real post….MY NEW SLIPCOVERS!!!! I am in love. I picked up this grey/brown/menswear looking fabric at Home Fabrics in Orem for $4/yd. I bought 25 yds and gave my room a new look. I had my other slipcovers on for about 5 years…I was ready for a change.

 Here is the couch…I eliminated the gathered skirt and let the legs show. I also made the cushion cover a little bit looser, so the down would look squishy and comfortable.

 Here are the loveseat legs

I made some new pillows for the white chairs. The other day I stopped at REstore, which is a habitat for humanity thriftstore for building materials. They happened to have a shopping cart filled with fabric samples from Hancock Fabrics. They were 10/$1 so I bought 50 of them. The center fabric is one of those samples. I have plans for some turquoise/brown menswear, cream/ turquiose herringbone, and cream velvet pillows for the couches to go with the chair pillows. But with the new slipcovers I am actually loving the red more, so I am going to leave them this way for a little while.

In the meantime I am making a footwarmer for my bed out of 24 of those samples…I already have it pieced together, I just need to put a back on it and sew some piping around it.

Another shot of the loveseat.

I am loving the darker fabric compared to the tan I had before…hopefully it will hide more of the kids foot footprints.

I am loving my pillows more now.

White linen napkin pillow.

 Couch

 Here is a close up of the fabric…tiny specks of tan woven in with the brown/grey. I love it, kind of adds some texture.

 Front of the arm

Here is one of the owl pillows I made for my boys out of my grandpas old shirts. I utilized the pocket for the front…they write notes to eachother and they can put their lost teeth for the tooth fairy in the pocket. You can get the pdf pattern here.

My grandpas name was written in the neck of all his shirts, so I used it on the bottom of the boxing. More nostalgic for me than my boys… my oldest was 3 when my grandpa passed away.

Whole room put together. I also found a lap quilt that Hebers Grandma made for each of the grandkids before she passed away….and draped it over the couch arm…it had the greys and reds in it. I decided to use and display it rather than leave it tucked away nicely in the trunk. She made it out of her husbands old suits.

Front room before

Here is a shot of my old set of slipcovers and pillows. Still cute, but I was ready for a change. See how different the couches look without skirts???