I didn't mean to be a tease....

Okay so I didn't really mean to tease with a picture and then not post for days.  I ended up going to Atlanta with LB and the hotel wanted $15 a day for internet service.  Really?  This was a nice hotel and they can't provide free WiFi?  Even McDonald's has free WiFi.  But anyway...

So I took what was left of the drop cloth I used to cover the window seat cushion and decided I would make some pillows to jazz it up and bring the colors together.  Bear in mind I've never stenciled anything before, but I had never covered a cushion before either.  I used Martha Stewart craft paint and added textile medium and a Martha Stewart set of stencils.  A word of advice, start in the middle and work your way out.  Don't start on the edge and hope for the best.  Trust me on this.  LB commented immediately when he saw what I was doing that I started wrong.  Thanks so much big helper, where was he when I was starting?

 SO, here is what I ended up with.  And I used the remaining welting.  Go me!  Didn't want to waste that since it took forever to make.

 In the tease picture I only showed you the three patterns.  Once I sat them on the cushion I realized I needed another orange pillow or it would look wonky.  This is what I came up with.

 Then I had an even number of pillows.  That was never going to work and totally threw my chi off.  I dug through all the fabric in my studio, that's a lot of fabric, and found this oriental print.  I originally found Chiang Mai Draggon fabric by Schumacher online and wanted it for this space but the $ was WAY out of the kitchen budget.  Like there is no budget to work with so fabric that is over $200 a yard isn't even a pipe dream.  This fabric had all the colors of the other pillows and added a different texture to the whole thing so I made a pillow that was a little larger than the others.

I decided I want to make two more pillows to go on each end.  I'm going to make them from the solid I used to make the welting on the oriental pillow.  I hope to get them finished tomorrow and then I'll be done with this pillow business for a while.

So did you know there is actually fabric out there that cost hundreds of dollars for a yard?  I didn't.  And to be honest I doubt there will ever be any fabric that cost that much in this humble abode.  Although I'm certain the beasties that share our space would absolutely LOVE anything made out of fabric that cost that much.  After all they think we are their support staff and they would deserve something made from the costliest fabric we could find.

I went to one of my favorite places when in Atlanta.  I'll tell you about that soon.  Have a GREAT weekend!

Love, Love, Kiss, Kiss!

SNM

Rumors of my demise are not true...

I just realized it had been FOREVER since I posted anything.  I've just been busy as a beaver.  I don't really know what all I've done but it must have been something since I haven't been here in days.  Here's a little recap of my last week.

After much cutting I ended up with this.

Which then turned into this.

 Over 40 feet of this.  Let me tell you by the time I was done it seemed like 40 million feet.

I just finished playing working with all that and now have this.  Doesn't look too impressive does it? 

 Can you see the awesome inset zipper?  No?  Trust me it is AWESOME!

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to show you what all this fabulous hard work is going to be.  I'm hoping it turns out since I have no idea what I'm doing.  It's called flying by the seat of your pants.

 This sweet box came in the mail Friday.  I waited patiently to open it after I worked on the above items. I did manage to get one little thing done with this.  I promised myself I would do the one thing I've been dying to do then go back to the above nightmare project.  So maybe tomorrow there will be two things to show you.

I did manage to slip some quality time with LB in.  I have quite the story about that to tell.  We also tried out a new church this weekend.  It's a smaller parish and I think we are going to like it.  SO what fun fabulous things did you do this weekend?

Love, Love, Kiss, Kiss!

SNM