More Martha Stewart Moments

We had bought a big black sheet to make into a couch cover but it wasn't quite big enough so I decided to use it to make curtains and cover the other 2 pillows. That way we'd have 2 white and 2 black. So we also got some white and black ribbon to go around the black pillows.

And here's what I made:




Here's the curtains hanging. You can't see real well but its the black sheet with white ribbon on the top and bottom, then I put red velvet ribbon on top of that.



Here's a close up of the top:


I bought rhinestones to go on the curtains also, but after putting them together I decided against it, so I blinged out our pillows instead.


I did each one a little differently, spacing the rhinestones out further or doubling them up just to make them all different.

Here they are all together on the ugly green couch that I'm hoping to cover soon:


Then I put them on the mantle for safe keeping until they actually match the couch and they actually look pretty nice up there!

CAN'T BEAT FREE!

So I've been spending more time on www.redplum.com and I found a bunch of really cool stuff.

Free fondue for 2 from The Melting Pot .. hello?!?! CHOCOLATE!!

Free Sub from Quiznos

Free books from Harlequin ..... LOL .. hey its free!

Anyway ... I was amazed how much I found today when I was bored at work and went HERE. I'm going to be print some coupons tonight and getting free stuff .. WOO HOO

Oh and since the site is owned by my company ... the more people that visit it .. the more secure my job ... SO GO!

FREE PANCAKES AT IHOP TOMORROW!!

HEY EVERYONE! CHECK OUT WWW.REDPLUM.COM AND FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET FREE PANCAKES TOMORROW

YAY!

More projects

So now that the ottoman is done I have to start making everything else in the room match. My couch and loveseat is dark green with black background. I'm sick of the green and I'm ready for something new so I decided to start with the pillows first.

Before:

After:


I only had enough of the white left over to make 2 pillows so the other 2 will be black with white accents.

Eric even got in on the act, he's making a cover for a table that's going out on the patio:




See my cute sewing machine? I don't know what happened to my big one, but I found this one at walgreens for $20. Not the best but it gets the job done. Next up curtains!!

Our latest project aka we make a good team!

The other day someone had left a table outside our dumpster. I'm not big on "dumpster diving" but my man talked me into it and we picked it up. It sat in our living room for a few days before we suddenly had an idea to turn it into an ottoman. It was too short to use as anything else so an idea was born. We had a big foam pad we weren't using and had already discussed using it for the patio bar stools so figured we could use some for this too. I forgot to do a before picture but you'll get the idea. First we cut the padding to fit the table and put it on with spray adhesive:



The pad that we cut up had a cover on it, that was in really good shape so I figured I better put my sewing skills to work and make a cover. The cover was white so we decided to make it removable so we could wash it when it gets dirty See I said when not if because I'm a realist.



Then I got out my handy dandy ruler to measure where to sew the trim.


Then it was off to Joann's, we found some really nice black satin covered elastic to go around it to help keep it on, and it was half price .. score!


Don't I look serious? Anywhooo then I made some bows with some more satin ribbon and put it on the corners to snazz it up a bit.



And here we have the finished project:


Since we "found" the table and already had the padding, the whole project cost us $12, plus we had elastic, ribbon, padding and enough of the cover left over to make matching pillows ... BONUS!

My Man's Got Skillzzzzz

When I moved into my apartment back in August, there was a guy moving out who gave me these bar stools.

They weren't much to look at, but they got the job done. A place to sit when I was out on my back patio .. which I didn't do much until I met Eric. As soon as he saw them he knew just what to do.

It took a lot of sanding


But I think they turned out pretty nice.

Now we're going to make some cushions and they'll be like brand new chairs.

Yeah .. my baby's got SKILLZ YO!

The best Valentine's Day Everrrrrrrr