One Thing Leads to Another

This is supposed to be a post about some pretty pillows that I made for the Kitchen/Hearth Room 

but it's really much more than that!  

It's also a post about how whenever I start on a project it ends up being a MUCH bigger project than I anticipated! 

 How does that happen?  

I just wanted to show you my PILLOWS!!!  

I made the pillows last weekend and I was all ready to blog about them.  In the back of my mind I knew that I wanted to finish my Fall decor in that room.  I honestly must have caught some kind of bug or something because I had NO energy all week (and a bad tummy). 

 I am still working on my remodel project for my clients so

 I have been busy with that too. 

 So I set out to at least take some photos 

of the pretty pillows on the sofa.  

I looked at the photos and thought "Sheesh" 

my sofa looks wrinkly! 

 I wish I could have used the Pic-Monkey wrinkle remover

 (Oh yes! I HAVE used that wonderful feature) 

on my sofa!  

SOooooooooo, long story short- 

This is a post about my pretty pillows on my FLUFFED up sofa without showing you the rest of the room because I'm wiped out!!!  

Here we go!

 These are my old pillows- 

Underneath the Hound Dog that belongs to my son. 

 We watch him every day when my son goes to work.  He works nights so it's not like he can take him to Doggie Day Care.  Besides, he's one of the pack.

 Miss Beaux scoots the ottoman up to the sofa to make a large Lounging space. 

 Hey, we LIVE here!  

They had squished the life out of these pillows.

 I found this fabric at the same Great Estate Sale where I found my wonderful drapes.  She had already cut the fabric for pillow and had the trim all ready to go.  I felt like I had to buy the pieces and finish it for her.  And, it was only two dollars for the fabric and two dollars for the trim!

I pinned the trim to the right side of the fabric and taped down the fringe so that when I did the sewing it wouldn't catch.  I should have used masking tape but it was too far to go into the garage so I grabbed the scotch tape in the kitchen drawer.  I sewed the right sides together and stuffed the old down insert inside.  These pillows are slightly smaller than my old pillows.

Pretty pillow Number One.  Don't you love this fringe? 

I glued the fringe onto pillow Number Two.  I just used Tacky Glue and left it overnight.  It was easier to glue it and I'm not a professional so I didn't want to mess up the pretty pillows with my inferior skills.

So here's what happened when I went to take pictures.

  I SEE THIS!   

Well, that's what you get when EVERYONE wants to hang out in the Kitchen/Hearth room. We have a wonderful sofa in the basement that no one ever uses!  I have had this C.R. Laine sofa for three years.  When I ordered it I made sure that I upgraded to the best cushions that they had.  But, I have family members who are Ex Football players.  They sit hard!  So I'm gonna fix it since I can't seem to keep them off of my sofa. 

I went down to JoAnn's and bought some Batting.  It was 40% off.  I get so lucky sometimes.  Plus I had a 20% off coupon that I had them scan on my phone.  I love technology when I leave stuff at home.

 I wrapped the batting around the cushion and stuffed it back into the cover.  It was that easy!

Wrinkle Free!  Now let's see those Pretty Pillows!

Much Better!  I must have tried a million pillow combinations before I found this pillow at an Estate Sale today for $6.00.  Wait til you see what else I found Estate Sale-ing this week.  I shared it on Facebook so some of you might know already.

Until Next Time

Beaux R'eves

XO Cindy
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