I made curtains!

I made some curtains. They are lovely and are a nice addition to the mostly white room. They look crazy and bright, but they soften up quite a bit when the sun is shining through them.

They aren't the same length because I bought of the sheer fabric was what was left of the kind I liked at the fabric store, but I'm okay with that. I'd probably be ok with just the opaque layer of curtains, but there's some rule at the apartment complex about not having any color besides white in the window, or something like that.

I'm not a pro at sewing by any means, but I managed to string these together. They are lovely enough for me! :)

Hot Air Balloon Festival: Version 3

Okay, so this will be my last set of hot air balloon pictures, I promise! {In case you missed them, here's the first set and here's the second set.} I didn't get out and take many pictures this weekend, so I figure that's just fine. I keep wanting to share a recipe or two, but I don't want to forget about these pretty balloons either. :)

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We had a fun, relaxing weekend without doing too much.  We watched the ISU vs Texas game...which was pretty ridiculous...and not in a good way.

This balloon was starting to deflate by the time I walked over there to take his picture. The poor guy's losing too much weight, for a panda bear!

I was in a cooking and sewing mood this weekend, so I started making my second (of six) pillows. {The first one is here.} The Mr. and I also made Jell-O filled citrus fruit and a candy-corn style cheesecake, which is hard to explain so I'll post pictures later. 

OH!! And don't forget to check out and enter em's giveaway here!!

Back to studying for me. Hope everyone had a nice weekend, and happy Monday! 

Pillow #1

I recently bought fabric and pillow forms to make pillows, since I figured the living room could use something new. Most of Friday was spent trying to figure out how to get the sewing machine threaded.  Once I figured that out, the thread kept bunching up on the bottom. So, I'm pretty surprised that I finished it this weekend. It didn't take too long once I sat down to do it.

Here are the four fabrics I'll use- there will be 6 pillows in total.  The hues look kind of weird on my computer screen, though. I kind of sketched out what I was going for... and then pretty much just eyeballed it.  I would have run into less problems if I were "fancy" and used a "measuring tape".  You can see that I recorded dimensions, but I pretty much just ignored those and started cutting. 

The Mr. thought he was being sneaky and took a picture of me sewing. I must have not noticed him. You can see that I'm wearing awesome slippers with my awesome headband/ponytail.  This is why I do not generally write about fashion. :P

Here's a close-up of the blue ruffle that I put on. I think it could look a whole lot better, but the Mr. was nice and complimented it.

Here is the finished product.  I definitely need to learn a better way of stitching the last part closed, once the pillow is stuffed inside. I'm mostly happy with it...1 down, 5 to go!

Other than pillow-making, the Mr. and I went out to eat Saturday and had a pretty relaxing Sunday. It rained all of Saturday and all of Sunday, so we only spent a little time outside. And the weirdest part about the weekend? We saw a clown entering the apartment clubhouse as we were leaving the gym Saturday- I didn't know really what to say. It was awkward.  There must have been a kid's birthday party going on, or something like that.

Happy Monday folks!