New pillows for the family room

We bought our couch and red chairs in the family room about 3 1/2 years ago. When we were at the furniture store something came up about the pillows and I said, "I don't care what the pillows look like, I'm going to recover them anyway." Since the red in the pillows matched the red chairs, they still looked like this until a few days ago:

I finally got sick enough of them to make covers. After lots of searching, I finally found the perfect fabric.

The third pillow is from one of the red chairs, I got over my love of symmetry and put the blue flower pillow on the couch too because I love how it looks with the floral.

Our living and dining rooms are red and gold (as seen here), and so was our family room. The kitchen has blue and white, which is what we've always had. I have been wanting to tie the kitchen and family room together better since they are one big room--thus the red, gold, and blue in the new pillows. I am so happy to have blue in the family room now!

Crafty details:
All three pillows have invisible zippers and are fully lined. I got to use my serger which made me happy. Tutorial here. The flower pillow was made using felt and this tutorial.

Kaylin's room: nightstand and lamp

I just finished another part of Kaylin's room--a nightstand and lamp.

The nightstand was originally a light birch color. We have two, they used to be Eric and my nightstands. I thought about painting it white like Kaylin's other furniture, but then decided a pop of green (I used Krylon celery) would be fun. I'm so happy I decided on the green.

I bought the pink lamp base at a consignment sale. The white shade is from Target. I sewed a ruffle using the pink and green fabric that I used on the curtains and pictures on the wall. I hot glued the ruffle onto the lamp shade.

Here's another post about Kaylin's room if you missed it.

And in the spirit of full-disclosure, here is what her bed looked like minutes into my photo shoot:

Kaylin was VERY upset that her quilt was on her bed. She tore it off and got the pillow pet and fleece princess blanket from her closet where I hid them for the pictures. Then she cried for awhile. I'm a mean mom. The good news is that she loves the nightstand and lamp.

Kaylin's Room: Pictures and Pillows

I FINALLY finished a set of three pictures for Kaylin's room. I'm not sure when I started them, but it's been a long time. Kaylin saw me working on the last one (the flower) one day and then kept asking for her flower picture. That was just the motivation I needed to get them finished. Here's a peek:

I appliqued the shapes onto the backing fabric. Then Eric (with help from the fabulous Brandon!) made the frames. After that I stapled the fabric with a layer of batting to the back of the frames and attached a picture hanger.

For the butterfly and lady bug I used a pattern for pillows from Amy Butler's Little Stitches for Little Ones. I made a template for the flower petals.

I also made a lady bug and butterfly pillow from the Bed Bugs pattern in the Amy Butler book. I finished these quite awhile ago, but hadn't taken pictures until today.

Original quilt post here.

Original curtain post here.

New curtains

Eric and I decided that our living and dining rooms needed curtains. I looked online for curtains and had a hard time finding the length I need in a style and color I liked. I didn't want to make them. So I compromised. While at Target alone one day (it was supposed to be a quick trip, Eric and the girls were in the car), I stopped to look at the curtains and found 4 panels in a color I liked that were on clearance! They were the only 4 left in their longest length, while they were only 30% off, I didn't want to risk waiting for 50%.

The longest length available at Target is too short for our windows. Enter the compromise.

I bought some special order fabric and after lots of seam ripping, measuring, cutting, ironing, and sewing... we have curtains!

dining room

another view of the dining room (do you see the snow?!)

living room

the best shot I could get of both rooms with the new curtains

I'm really happy with how they turned out. I think they tie the two rooms together nicely and warm the rooms up a bit.