Saturday, July 10, 2010

I am no good at this

No matter how many hours of HGTV I watch, I will never be good a decorating.  I have managed to do things in my house little by little, but now I am stuck on my master bedroom.  Other than move furniture in and out, we haven't done anything with this room since we moved in 3 1/2 years ago.  My mom made us a beautiful quilt when we got married that was the one bright spot in our room. 
In my redecorating planning, I decided that I want to go with some different colors for our room.  I wanted brown walls (we get TONS of natural light) with green accents.  I found a bedding set I thought was perfect so I bought it.
While I still like it, now my lack of designer-ness is causing me stress.  Since I have taupe bedding, can I still paint my walls brown? I was hoping to do tan walls with a dark brown accent wall around the bed.  Would that be too many colors of brown?  Would I be better off painting the room green and going with brown curtains for this window?

Can I paint it green, even if 3 other rooms in my house are green (1/2 bath, laundry, nursery)? Or should I stick with the brown paint and do green curtains? I bought some off white curtains with the intent to sew a band of green fabric at the bottom.  Of course, when I went today, the store no longer carried the fabric I wanted! 
I think once I have the paint and curtains figured out I'll be able to do the rest.  But for now, I'm wishing David Bromstead could swing by and give me some tips!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Latest projects

Lately I've been giving my sewing machine a good workout with:
  • blocks for my block of the month class at a local quilt shop. I love going to this class! I love spending the morning with my mom and looking at all the fabric.  And I love pretending I understand all the terms everybody uses!


  • Working on ornaments for my tree this year.  I've made good progress in getting the background stars cut, most of the pieces traced and cut out of the fusible web.  Still need to fuse to fabric, cut them out again, then piece together on the star.  Think I can finish by November?
  • An awesome project for a friend who just had a baby which I can't share yet, because I haven't sent it yet and she may read this!
  • Happy thoughts about the project I bought the last time I went to the quilt shop....guess what I'm making!