New Pillow Covers

A little a while ago I recovered a chair that turned out like this...

Part of the reason for choosing this particular fabric is that I have two dark blue wingback chairs in my living room. They are in good shape so it doesn't make sense to pay to recover them or even slip cover them. Instead, I decided to use dark blue as the accent colour for my living room. I made some pillow covers to tie into the recovered chair fabric. Here's how they turned out:

 

Organized Spice Cupboard

I recently organized the spice cupboard that is beside my stove. I thought that it was looking a bit too busy. Here is a picture of it before:

Mini Blind Turned Roman Blind Tutorial

Let me apologize in advance for the length of this post, but I didn't want to leave out any of the steps. Basically, I used fabric glue to attach fabric to a $10 mini blind from Walmart to create roman blinds for the window at the top of my stairway. It's simple, cheap and turned out as a good looking, fully functional roman blind.

Chair Makeover Tutorial

I showed a sneak peek earlier this week of a chair that I had made over. Here is exactly how I did it.

An Old Chair Makeover

Here's a quick peek at an old chair that I recently made over. I will post a tutorial about exactly how I did it later on this week. For now here are a few before and after pictures. So this is what I started with:

 

And here is how it turned out:

 



 

Revised Kitchen Artwork

A little while ago, I added some vintage labels as artwork in my kitchen. I liked how they turned out as a project but in the end, I thought they made the kitchen walls look too busy. I also tend to want to change my artwork frequently so I adjusted the pictures frames that I already had to make these:

A Few More Halloween Ideas

I just wanted to show a few more pictures of the Halloween decorating that I have been doing. I hung some orange-coloured Christmas balls from our front entry light fixture. I drew faces on them with black sharpie. I also took a branch from my yard, spray painted it black, and hung dollar store spiders from the branch with black thread.