anna sews! and sara nails! {pillows and bed crowns}

Decorating post #2. 

Anna sews! 

On Monday the kids had off of school, and Anna wanted to do a project.  She is her mother's daughter!  

New "ruffle" pillows for the girls beds were the final product.  Oh, did we have fun!

Here's a peek.

See the pillow on the right with the ruffle running along the side?

Anna did a great job!  She made the ruffles all by herself, and sewed it on {I assisted by running the machine speed and helping guide little hands}.  

Isn't it cute?

She was pleased as punch!  

With herself.

With the pillow.

With the satisfaction of seeing her hard work sitting so prettily on her bed.

And my generous girl also wanted to shower the sunny yellow love on her sister...

She wanted Emma's ruffle to look unique.  So she sewed it to look like a sash.  A sash on a girl scout uniform.

She is so cute!

We really had fun together.  And the girls are thrilled with the new addition to their bedroom.

Tracy and Jenn, did you ever think Plastigirl {my el-cheap-o sewing machine's nickname} would last so long?!

Sara nails!

Does anyone remember this?

The "architectural element" I found with Tracy and Jenn in Virginia?  When we were "helping Tracy" fall in love with her new state via shopping. :)  

Sent two of these back home to Minnesota.  Because you know, we have nothing old like this in our state.  Riiiight. Keith still wins the award for keeping a straight face when we dragged these out of the back of the car!  

Wellll. Our bedroom.  The bed sits directly in front of a light switch that is so oddly placed.  When we closed two rooms off from each other upon moving in, the light switch that was next to french doors in one of the rooms now is located in the middle of the wall.  Smack dab.  

Our bed makes most sense on that wall.  

For three years I've rotated a variety of pictures over the bed, all of which cantilever off the wall at odd angles.  

I love the romantic look of bed crowns with beautifully tailored fabrics cascading off and cocooning the bed.  Bliss.

At least that is what I think it looks like it feels like.  

So lovely.

After looking at a lot of photos, and pricing some of the bed crowns, the needed fabric, etc., I knew I would not be buying and having made one in any near future.  

But as I sat nursing Emma through her palate surgery recovery these past weeks....inspiration struck.

Being home as nursemaid has its benefits.

And here is what I came up with:

I took one of the architectural elements and nailed two panels of burlap curtains to the back of it!  

Jim was aghast.  And totally admired my handiwork, such as it is!

Aghast turned to admiration pretty quickly.  Just don't look at the back of it, honey!

I used one panel for the center, and sewed half of the other panel on each side thus creating enough width and bulk.

Then I honestly just laid it out on the floor and lined up the center of the fabric roughly with the center of the wooden arch, used some small nails procured from Jim's nail store downstairs and started nailing away.

Ten minutes later...

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Makes me happy!  

And boy was that a fun distraction in a time of quiet.  Emma thought I was a crazy lady.  She kept laughing at me.  

And so ends posts documenting our home changes. :)

It is really fun to be able to show my dearest friends so far flung around the country the changes.

Hey, girls, despite the wretched snow and cold, you know you want to move back home!

Okay, you are home.  Right where God has planted you in your warm and southern and coastal and desert locations.  Just know how missed you are here!  

xoxoxo

Sara