Ahhh...finishing things is just wonderful!

I finally finished our living room curtains!!!

My goodness...it feels so good to have them hanging

and to have them finished.

I'm just so pleased with how they turned out...

just the right amount of toile border

on the drop cloth fabric panels.

We don't have a frou-frou living room ~

it's very "cabinet of curiosites" and I just wanted to keep

them very stream-lined but elegant as well.

Now. All I need is a gorgeous new leather sofa and I'll make

some soft feather pillows to go with!

I sewed this beautiful skirted table about 12 years ago from a wonderful old

matelasse (Bates) bedspread and the topper

is the exact same fabric (Waverly cream and tan toile)

as the borders on the panels!

I even re-purposed the trim from the old bedspread

and added it to the edge of the topper!

I had this skirted table in my very first antique store "Red Rooster Antiques"...

Noah was about three or four years old....

Sept. 11th happened and my first little store was history.

The table has endured though and followed us as I love it so much ~

More art...the one nearest the window I put together from wonderful found objects.

I don't know if you remember the two bubble glass ovals we found recently

while out junkin' but I want to add them to either side of the lamp

filled with amazing old things!!!

My motto is that a wall is meant to be filled with 

things that you LOVE.

The shot below is from the doorway of our foyer ~

Not all is perfect...

but just perfect for us.

Thank you always, always for stopping by to see what I'm up to

and especially for your precious comments!

Wishing you a WONDERFUL Tuesday my sweet, sweet friends....

hugs and love,

Dawn

Enjoying the creative process...

I just love being able to whip something up fast!!!

Something pretty that I think you all will love too ~

But sometimes I think I need to rush through,

 just to get that sweet finished product, you know?

These living room curtains have plagued me for a while now it seems but

today I tried to get back to them!

I'm finally on the last set as we have three very tall

and narrow windows in there.

I keep telling myself as I'm working on them to slow down,

and try to enjoy the process of creating them.

Curtains are not fun to make to me.

They are necessary and ultimately pretty

but just not fun to create.

I truly do think it's important for us all to remember

to enjoy the creative process, each and every step though ~

Here's a pretty bad pic I took late last night of one window:

Anyway...enough about those things :)

I wanted to share a quick photo of a few magazines that

I've purchased lately.

I've gotten so picky but each one of these had

some wonderful features!!

So we have a sweet little girl's birthday party tomorrow at

a local state park...please pray for sunny, mild weather for us ~

It's turned off cold here in Georgia and we just thought for sure

it would be a gorgeous Spring day and perfect

to have her party outdoors!!!

I still can't believe our baby Clara is turning four years old...

Wishing you a beautiful Friday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Feeling a bit loser-ish ~

Yes. I know loser-ish is not a word but it's just how I feel as of late.

I don't know why, but the creativity is just not flowing freely right now!

Maybe I need someone to take me and squeeze me....

I don't know.

I've been in a funk and that's just how it is.

You can't change it, you just have to deal with it and let it roll off of you, right?

I did manage to get sweet Noah to hang my one lone panel in the living room

so I could check the length and see if I liked the clip on rings and

I LOVE THEM!

You can slide the drapes open so easily and slam them closed as well ~

So then, I head to W-mart to buy a few more but of COURSE

they don't have all that I need.

So what did I do?

Bought brushed nickel or something and some bronze spray paint.

Yes, I did...

I will spray them all the same color so they will match!

Of course it would help if I'd also finish the drapes....

I will.

I just know it.

Here's a baby peek at that one lone panel:

Is it OK to have a blog post with one little, sorry photograph???

Well, by golly, I guess it is....

Wishing you a wonderful and very productive Wednesday dear friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

The chaos of this little studio ~

I am always, ALWAYS trying to clean up this sweet little room!

Of course I had to choose the ONE room in this old 1925 farmhouse
that needed to have a little extra support from underneath...

so thank goodness our son Brent

knew how to do that, but truthfully,
I think he needs to come back and do it again!

I have piles of stuff everywhere!
Beautiful baby clothes that I need to find a home for...
lavender sachets piled up here and there ~

Beautiful fabric piled up and of course my fav...seam binding!

A baby bonnet hung on my tripod? Yeah, I'm nuts but I so love this little bonnet!

Ahhh...I'm loving my new iron and ironing board cover!!!

But look at the piles of lace and fabric stuck in the crack ~

Oh my goodness...

A simple makeshift photo booth ~ as this has to be the darkest room in the house.

Remember that I'm working on new living room curtains????

I've bought three giant canvas drop cloths, washed and dried them and now split

them each in half to create two panels for each of the three windows in our living room.

Well...now I've had the bright idea to add my favorite Waverly toile to each panel

as an inside border!!! I already have this toile fabric in our living room

as a table topper to a large skirted table

so it will be wonderful to have it on the windows as well ~

Oh look!

The sewing corner doesn't look too bad....

Here's the pretty toile...they will be 4" bands in the inside edges of each panel ~

I managed to finish one panel...only five more to go!!!!

Thank you always for stopping by to see me!!

If you see an extra ad at the top of my post

please know I'm just trying to earn extra money

for my family ~

Wishing you a beautiful Friday and weekend as well!!!

hugs and love precious friends,

Dawn

I so love drop cloths ~

First, I have to share this beautiful image with you ~

I knew you would love it the minute I saw it in my gift package from Linda!!!

Click it a few times to enlarge, then save :)

If you've read my blog any at all,

you would know my fondness for drop cloth canvas and

the wonderful fabric that it is!

Well, this weekend I did it again.

I purchased three drop cloths to make curtains for our living room.

I know I will love them though because I love drop cloths!

I've already washed each one with detergent and fabric softener...then dried each one.

They do shrink a little but it so, so softens the fabric!!!!

I don't have any photos to share with you yet but

I do have these pics from a few years back in our last home ~

These were casually hung on wire that was wrapped around nails...

I hung them in the bay window of our dining room.

I loved the way the wire swags across the windows!

Plus, I just have to share these beautiful photos that Emily took of her gorgeous babies,

our beautiful grandbabies,

this past weekend!!!!

I'm also working on a few orders for friends....

Wishing you all such a wonderful Monday ~

hugs and love sweet friends,

Dawn

For the love of drop cloths!

I do love them you know....

I wash them with fabric softener and then the fabric is this

amazing nubby, speckled goodness that's sturdy as all get out!

I just finished two more flea bags.

Created from, you guessed it...drop cloths!

With a little bit of antique lace, toile lining, watch faces and button ~

these sweeties are ready to FLEA!

And you know what would be wonderful??
Add a few more goodies to these bags!!!
Buy a vintage rhinestone pin...as a sweet reminder of a fun antiquing day!
Or maybe a cluster of old millinery?
These bags are blank canvases and would be great to adorn
with little treasures of your fun antique jaunts ~


See more here....

I guess I love creating with this fabric because it's so sturdy.

I have this wish that years and years after I'm gone from this earth,

that the things I've made will be those treasures that are lasting and that

others will find at flea markets and antique malls....

new treasures to them but that have stood the test of time!

Have a beautiful fall Friday dear friends!!!

I treasure each and every one of you ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

Morning light ~