Green Ruffle

I decided the window needed a ruffle in the girl's room, since I recently took down the curtains. They were too hard for a four year to wielded. (Come summer when the Colorado sun come up at 5:30, we might go back to heavy curtains.)

This tulle ruffle was about the easiest thing to ever make. I bought a roll of tulle and measured 5x the window, the cut two pieces that size. Sewed two straight lines. I didn't even gather, because it bunched on the rod.

In case you couldn't tell the room is pink and green. (The quilt my mom made.)

Here are some other pink and green diy-s for her room.

Lace Ruffle Lampshade

Temple Frame

Clippie Holder

Girly Clock

Thankfully we repainted the room from that awful hot pint.

Kitchen Valance

I really really hated the valence over the sliding glass door in the kitchen. Turns out my husband wasn't too fond either, so he didn't mind much when I changed it. Now the style matches with my window two feet away. I love it! Turns out its a lot harder to sew curtains when your mom doesn't do all the work. Now all I need is a new stove. Oh and counter tops.

Valance

I made a valance for my laundry room.  I have absolutely no practice in making valances, but I saw a cute one on pinterest that I never could find again, and I realized that is what my laundry room was missing.

I hated the window and especially the honeycomb blinds, but that is when I realized a valance, I didn't want full on curtains since a laundry room is so dusty and linty.  I think its perfect, although I do know it would look better if I knew how to make a professional looking valance.  I love the material, I love toile, I love green and since had the material waiting for a project, it was perfect. The project was only the cost of a cheap curtain rod, and it matches my wreath, sort of, the greens do match.

Circus Flags

For my five year old son's room, I sewed circus flags or bunting for his window.  His room is a light yellow, then his window well and corresponding wall is the darker yellow. The window forms this little nook/ cut out from the rest of his rectangle room.  Anyway I thought circus flags would be a fun thing for the room to make it juvenile without making it babish or girly. If you have a beef with the material bring it up with the 5 year old, he picked out the fat quarters himself. I bet you would never guess his favorite color is yellow.

 Then while we were at Jo-Ann's getting interfacing, he saw a mini quilt on display.  He wanted to buy it, so I made him one with left over material from the flags.  

Kitchen Curtains

All of our windows came with these weird blind things, that actually work great with open windows, which we always have since we have no A/C.  All except our kitchen window. It was suggested I use a roman shade, but I have no modeling around the window so that was a no go.  I watched a lot of Clean House episodes on Netflix before me moved, so I really wanted to have curtain rings, because the designer uses curtain rings on every episode.  And even if I didn't like them before, after two seasons of seeing it, I wanted it.  Just like that Big Mac.

 So obviously I made these curtains, I wanted a light airy material, I was thinking like a white seersucker stripe with maybe a little bit of silver thread in it, but I found these material instead.  I think I love it, I love the material, but I didn't want a bold print that was too in your face.  My mom assured me this was not a bold print.  I love having a kitchen curtain. I think it matches quite well with the rest of my kitchen, I think it helps pull everything together.