and then you fall in love with America all over again.

It doesn't take much to entertain me.

I think this may by why I find lip dubs so freakin hilarious and also may explain why I watch such horrible television.

With all of this Chick-fil-a craziness going on, let's all take a moment to refocus and to remember why America is so awesome. Because we can dance and pretend to sing whenever and wherever we want. Mostly in thanks to these guys.

You got to love a good Call Me Maybe lip dub.

Straight lines are tiring.

True story.

I am tired of sewing.

Don't get me wrong, I like sewing because it produces pretty things but over the past week I have spent too much time in front of the machine. I need a break from mating one piece of fabric to another piece. Ha mating fabric.

Since last Wednesday I've sewn four 3 foot long curtain panels and 5 pillows. That's a lot of straight lines. But not so hard work pays off. I cozified our bed with new pillows!

Here's our bed before. Try not to fall asleep looking at this picture.

That's special. Not so much. Boring. So I went to Ikea this past weekend and bought 5 feather pillow inserts. Key: Buy the feather pillow inserts, not the cheap polyester fiber filled inserts. The feather inserts are so much more comfortable and you can actually lay, snuggle, pass out and touch them with out worrying about the pillow losing its shape and becoming a pancake.

The pillows make our bed look small but that's mostly because the pillows are big. Big and cozy. The big back pillows that are in the same fabric as the curtains are about 2 feet wide each.

and here they are all fabriced up!

I'm pretty in love with the fabrics. The 2 back pillows were made from left over curtain fabric and the gray fabric and purple floral fabric I found at Joanne's. The floral fabric mixed with the geometric pattern fabric does it for me.

Our bedroom is finally starting to develop a personality!

I'm definitely already scheming up some more ideas for this room.

"They are yellow, brown and creamish." "They sound really ugly." Thanks Aj

Curtains. Done. Up.

All I have of them right now is some iphones pictures because I got a little to excited and started on another bedroom project before I thought to take real pictures.

I'm a fan.

The room feels so much more cozy now. I really don't know how I allowed our bedroom to go naked for almost a year. Oh yeah, grad school.

These were the first curtains that I've ever 100% completely sewn and I have to say they aren't hard at all. Just a couple of long, straight lines.

The fabric for the curtains cost $55 for 7 yards from fabric.com. I made 4 panels (2 windows) and two huge pillows for the bed with the 7 yards. Good deal. Good deal.

I knoow what you should ask for for Christmas........

A sewing machine.

No more orange curtain goodness.

Sad news. I forgot to double check the width of the above fabric before I bought it. I got it home, laid it on the floor to start cutting it and it hit me, this doesn't look very wide. It wasn't. It was on 45" wide.

No go, no go.

I returned it. and after days of searching the world via the Internet I found some fabric online from fabric.com that I actually love even more! Jazz hands and star jumps (shout out Katie!)!

You're dieing to see it.

But I'm not ready to let it all hang out yet.

I have to make sure I like it in person first.

Dooo En My Hobbies

I'm on summer break. A 2 month break. With really nothing to do but whatever I want. For 2 months. Yeah if I were you I would hate me too. I'm pretty blessed to have 2 months of complete freedom and relaxation. I'm fully aware that I will probably never have a break like this every again.

Everyone keeps asking me what I'm going to be doing during this break. My answer is dooo en my hobbies! It's going to get crazy around here with crafts and decorating and watching Bravo.

Here's my goal list so far of projects to get done this summer break:

-Make curtains for our bedroom

-Make curtains for the kitchen

-Stencil burlap pillow in the living room

-Finish up the living room gallery wall with a couple more frames and fill up the empty frames currently hanging out on it

-Make pillows for our bed

-Make new wreath for front door

-Make the bathroom look cuter in general (new curtains, towels, rug, storage)

-Organize the guest bedroom somehow.......no guest can comfortably stay in there right now

Making curtains for our bedroom is the first thing I'm tackling. I went to Joanne's yesterday to get INSPIRED INSPIRED by fabric! I found some fabric I loved and decided to take a day to think about it. Here's hubbalicious with the said fabric.

He's a good man coming along to the fabric store with me. As long as we are spending time together he doesn't care what we are doing. Did you just gain five pounds from all that cheese?

Then today, I had a moment where I thought that I should just make curtains out of painter's drop cloths. Like below. It's a hottie tottie thing in the DIY world right now. Reasons for doing it would be that its cheaper (only $20 for two windows) and easier than making curtains from nothingness (3 sides are already hemmed for you) and I liked the neutralness and roughness of it.

from pinterest

but then after texting my stylish, crafty and smart sister about the idea this morning I decided that no, I'm going to go with the orange pattern fabric. Because my little heart loves it some color and pattern.

So off! Off I am to make bedroom curtains. Well tomorrow I am because a My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding marathon is on that junk is crazy.