Rainy day project!  Poor Stevie was feeling sick anyway with a fever and some barfies.  So he took a nice, long nap to sweat it out. While he slept, I had time to work on a project that I’ve been wanting to try for awhile; new curtains for our dining room/office. I found the look here.  I sure wish I was creative enough to come up with this stuff on my own.  But I loved these so much, I thought I’d give them a try.

The curtains (including the pretty scalloped lace panels) are from Ikea. The red tassel fringe is from Joann’s.  I hemmed the curtains first with Stitch Witchery, magic I tell you! And then hand-sewed the fringe on.  I could have used my “sewing machine” – I use that term very lightly, as it’s so ridiculous.  More like a toy sewing machine than a useful piece of machinery.  Plus hand-sewing was cathartic.  It worked out.  But if you have any form of OCD, do not look at the back…

I almost wanted to just leave these lace panels up because they are so darn pretty.  But too much light comes in and we can’t see our babies…errr…computer screens.

I forgot to take a before picture, but you can imagine – they were just sheer-ish yellow panels.  When I took them down to wash them, Paul said “Uh, please don’t put those back up.  Get some new curtains.  Those are disgusting.”

Happy to oblige, honey!