Simple Tie-up Valance

I've been trying to figure out a way to dress up our kitchen bay window. We get such good light from this window that I didn't want to block out but it needed a little something on there. I found this adorable looking kitchen valance online ($40 for one panel! Yikes!) and thought I could duplicate it pretty well.

I bought a simple room-darkening curtain panel at Walmart for $7 and a couple of spools of ribbon for $4. I wanted the length of my curtains to be 18". The middle curtain is 54"x 18" and the smaller curtains are 23"x 18". I added 2" to the length so I could fold over the hem.

I read on a valance tutorial for this type of curtain to make the ribbon 2/3 the length of the curtain. I hot-glued the ribbon into a loop and attached a bow to the seam. Loop the ribbon onto the curtain and hang it up.

My middle window is pretty wide so I put three ribbons on it.

And here's a picture of the one from the store. Not  bad right???

Airplane mobile

For Christmas I got a Silhouette Cameo! I love it so much! I have so many more crafting options than I did with the Cricut. The Cricut was a great tool but very limited in what and how you create. My first project was cutting these 3D airplanes to hang in Brandon's room. I LOVE how they turned out!!! And it was so easy. There are so many possibilities for me now!

This is Brandon's view from the bed :)

Easy Tube Pillow Case

I have seen this pillowcase tutorial floating around Pinterest. The other day at Joann's I found some super cute airplane fabric and decided to make a pillowcase for Brandon's bed. I'm in the process of redecorating his room. I will post a video showing the process. It's so awesome! It goes so quick and it's so easy. I gotta make more. You can also find instructions here.

Fabric Ornaments

Loved this project. And I got to use some of my cute Christmas fabric scraps and cover some of our existing ornaments. This cost me a total of $1 for the ornament hooks. Found the tutorial here. She says to use a 13x13 square piece of fabric but I thought that was a little big. I think mine were 10x10 or maybe even smaller. I'm considering recovering my music note ornaments with music fabric....

Burlap Christmas Wreath

I've seen burlap coming up all over Pinterest for home decor stuff and I just love it. And I LOVE this wreath. I wanted to do a burlap/lace Fall wreath but I ran out of time to do that. This was such a fun, cheap project and I love how it turned out. I bought a moss/grass wreath for $5 and wrapped it twice with some burlap ribbon ($3.50). Then I added some white poinsettia flowers, pine cones, holly leaves, holly berries, and ribbon ($3) with lots and lots of hot glue. I couldn't wait until next week to hang it up so, yes, it's hanging on my door now before Thanksgiving :)

Bumble bee costume

Brandon chose to be a bumble bee for Halloween this year. My kids picked such easy costumes!! I bought a black shirt and black sweats for about $10. Also bought a pair of fairy wings, headband, and pipe cleaner at the dollar store. I had some yellow felt on hand and hand sewed strips to the black shirt. I spray painted the wings black, attached pipe cleaner to the headband and done!

Tinkerbell Skirt

Katy wanted to be Tinker Bell for Halloween. Yay! I found a green shirt for her to wear and made her a little skirt to go with it. I found a simple tutorial at Make It and Love it . I bought one yard of satin green fabric for about $2. The tutorial uses fabric that doesn't fray but my satin fabric wouldn't be doing that. I just sewed two pieces together and turned it right side out, made a casing for elastic and done! (Katy's waist was 22" so I made the width of the skirt 44" and 16" long since I would be folding over a casing.)