Maybe I Have Oppositional Defiance?

Saturday it rained. It was gloomy & grey & it rained. Alot.

Guess what I did?

I ran errands. Almost all day. In the rain. (Wearing flip flops.)

Sunday it looked like this:

Sorry my cell phone pics are less than stellar...

Guess what I did?

I stayed inside. Almost all day. And sewed. Admiring the sunshine from inside my window. Well, except for the morning jaunt above to snap a pic of the sparking water.


My life appears to be a pattern of irregularity.


On the upside ~ I was productive!

I made a curtain for one of the dormer windows upstairs. We live in an old Cape Cod so we have 3 dormer windows - one in each of the upstairs bedrooms & this one. No one ever really looks out this window because its to your back as you go up the stairs to the older boy's bedroom's. There is a small landing where you can stand but it's not exactly "accessible" unless you are a cat or use cat-like moves to shimmy over to it. The only people who will really ever see this awesome, amazing, fun window covering are my boys who live up there and their friends. And the two cats. Also? It already had a sheer panel. So really? I made this curtain just to keep from making my bedroom curtains. 

After scaring my husband into thinking I was going to fall off the tiny landing if I didn't "just hang the curtain & get down already" I felt very accomplished and inspired to finally get started on my bedroom curtains decorate some...

Baby Onsies??

For a kid that is not due to enter this world until JULY. 

This morning I woke up and the first thing I laid eyes on were our semi-nekkid windows. I yearned for another day off to finally get started - but who am I kidding? I was better off heading to work, where we finally learned our department has survived the takeover & we are safe! 

Dear Facebook Friends - sorry for this repeat of weekend events! 

Curtain Call!

We’ve been in our little haunted cape cod by the beach for two years now.

I’ve had a sewing maching for one year now.

One would think that is ample time in which to produce some window coverings, wouldn't one?

Apparently not for me.

I made curtains for Max's room and AJ's room and Gunnar's room and the kitchen and even the laundry room for heaven's sake! But despite all my best window-covering-intentions, our bedroom remains plain.

We have plain white walls and plain white mini-blinds and a plain white down comforter.

But before you conjure up images of straight-jackets - know that I have lots colored sheets & blankets!!! 

Admittedly, I have changed my mind way too many times on how I want it to look so it's probably a thing of luck that I haven’t gone hog wild with every whim thus far…otherwise I’d have a real mess.

I have the kind of husband who doesn’t care what colors I use. His only requirements are that it’s comfortable and that he gets to sleep with me. Sweet, right? Yeah, well...don’t go getting all impressed because let me tell you, he is also the kind of husband who tells me all the different ways different home-improvement projects I want to do won’t work.) 

I have to tell you though, having the freedom to choose any color scheme I want? It's way more of a burden than a blessing. 

I can’t make up my mind because there is no one saying “oh hells no!” to the idea’s I come up with. 

If he would just tell me no one time, then I would know for certain that that is EXACTLY what I want to do. 

Instead, I have enough yardage of discarded fabric to hang myself. 

True story: I once came acrossed a purple velvet Buddha at Marshalls and decided to build a scheme around him. That’s when I bought the white down comforter too. I had this airy, lavender & white, bohemian beachy look all conjured up in my head with pops of purple.

HE DID NOT SAY NO.

Then I decided I wanted something still beachy but more Cape-Coddy so I decided white with shades of blue & gray & maybe even cream. I found gorgeous fabric for window coverings on the clearance wall at the Fabric Hut in Norfolk. But guess what? There are three windows in our room and I bought enough to cover 2. I ignored the first rule of the clearance wall: BUY THE WHOLE BOLT DUMBASS. To be fair, I have plenty to make valances for all three – but matching those shades of blue, gray, and cream are not happening. I’d need to make a duvet too.

HE DIDN’T BLINK AN EYE AT MY DILEMMA.

I tried to tell him how if our bedroom was a beautiful sanctuary I would go in there & pretty much float in bliss and probably be more prone to bouts of silence instead of pillow chatter…I did not work. He reminded me that A. I am not a fairy nor in a fairy tale and B. He has zero hope in me ever talking less.

So now I am on to this "chabby-chic meets Betsey Johnson in a Jane Austen goes to visit Alice in Wonderland" feel. Black & white & pink & roses & rabbits. I went too far with the rabbits, didn’t I? Come on, I told you about the purple buddha! Besides, I don't mean actual live rabbits or even stuffed toy rabbits – and I certainly do not mean rabbit fur. It's just I happen to have a beautiful framed print of a rabbit that my Gramps gave me for Christmas years ago and for the first time ever, it’s going to have a prominent place. 

When I told my husband my idea’s, you know what he said?

He said I need a check up from the neck up.

Finally! His ever-so slight annoyance was all the confirmation I needed to proceed. :)

THIS is the fabric I bought from Fabric.com and it arrived as beautiful as I had hoped:

Michael Miller Savannah Black

Michael Miller Charlotte Rose

Now I just need to figure out what the heck kind of curtains I want! Off to Pinterest...

Labor Day & The Pink Slipper Project

All bbq's are off in this neck of the woods today. It's raining - the cats & dogs variety. But you know what? It's not disappointing at all, because the truth of the matter is we need the rest more than we need the burnt hot dogs!

How about spending your Labor Day laboring with love over a pair of pink slippers? Maybe you've already heard of the Pink Slipper Project, but I just found out about it today and I couldn't wait to share. I'm in love with the rag slipper pattern they provide, but since I am way more adept with a hook and yarn, I'm planning to put my pink fiber to good use today.

Learn more about The Pink Slipper Project