Crafty CFriday

{Welcome to the third installment.}

You might think that after my husband told me, “I think you have a problem…” on my third straight project one afternoon OR after my sister-in-law called to tell me she had a dream where Tyler died and my method of coping was to just start doing a thousand projects {probably true, but hopefully not prophetic}, that I would scale back on all my DIY projects.  But no dice.

I guarantee if TGrass saw the cost difference between what is and what could be were I not so thrifty, he would definitely opt for the Crafty Cfridays {and Saturdays and Sundays…}.

So, here we go.  My latest projects

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My favorite as of late are my pillows for the living room sofa.  I initially made a solid burlap one.  I liked the look, but not the feel so I remade it with a burlap back and linen fabric on the front.

I found simple instructions online, cut all the pieces according to size, pulled out my sewing machine, and spent approximately 86.3 hours trying to thread the bobbin. 

I called my mom, who asked, “What kind of relationship do you have with a glue gun?” when she heard I was working with burlap.  When the Queen of All Things Sewing recommends a glue gun, you listen.  So I glued and there you have it.  I made two of them and it cost less than $10 in total. {Burlap = $3/yd and green linen = $7/yd, but I only needed 1/2 a yard.}

But I wasn’t done…

The point of making my own pillows is to save money so I can afford to have seasonal pillow covers.  And to make them seasonal, I wanted to paint leaf silhouettes on them.  I ended up going another route, but here’s what I came up with and how I got there…

I made my own stencils using blank stencil paper I bought for $3.  I printed a big “g” and a pear silhouette from the computer, traced it onto the stencil paper and cut it out with a craft knife.

I chose a “g” when I saw this and a pear once I found the pillows behind them. {I scored at PB—they were on clearance, baby.}  And there you have it!  My $5 pillows…

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My next project, I SWEAR I did yesterday, before The Nester posted this today.  I’d seen the vinyls she featured and decided to do it myself using black contact paper (shelf liner).  I google image’d “bird silhouette” and found one I like, printed it, cut it out, and traced it backwards on the contact paper.

     And there you have it!  It literally cost pennies to make… (I already had the candle jar.)  And I have a ton of contact paper left so the possibilities are endless…

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I also made that runner for my coffee table with the burlap left over from the pillows and painted on the design with a stencil and white fabric paint.

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So that’s it!  My next project is paint stripes on white curtains since I’m so into painting fabric right now and since all I seem to do these days is straight copy learn from The Nester (and I can’t seem to find fabric like this to safe my life…)

Coming soon to a window near my kitchen table…