Fresh

Our bedroom is a disaster of laundry that seems to keep piling up and frankly is just feeling very dull right now. I typically shy away from warm colours like the yellows and reds and oranges but I found this amazing vintage table cloth on Sunday and couldn't resist turning it into pillows and art for the bedroom, just to infuse a little more energy and zest.

Table cloth

Pillows I found for the bed

Before the covers

They are a 70's chenille green colour.

After with the new covers made from the table cloth

I also made new pillow case covers from the fabric I found a few weeks ago they were a perfect match to go with the new smaller accent pillows and I used the table cloth fabric as a canvass piece as well.

Bedroom Before, very uninspiring

A litte more flare, now to tackle the laundry situation. Need to find dresser pronto!

A little crafty

So I feel like I hit the jack pot at the thrift shop today! I have had this idea to do a series of canvass pieces using mens old dress shirts for my little one's room and what do you know, I found a canvass for 1.99, lots of great material and a few mens dress shirts in the perfect tones for the project as well as tons of buttons. I started one and hope to find two more little canvass to do a total of three. 

All the great fabric and mens shirts I found. 

The shirt I used for this particular project

 I then cut enough of the fabric on the backside to cover the canvass, stapled it over the canvass, then I drew the bird on some scrap booking paper that I had and hot glued it on and used one of the buttons I found today for the eye. 

Voila a little canvass piece for the bambina's room


Before                                                                                                 

After

Two more to come.........