Last night I made a pair of curtains for my kitchen. I found some material at Joann that looked almost just like my beloved Dwell studio napkins (and the reverse side of the quilt on my bed). I snatched up a few yards and some iron on hem and went to town.

How pretty is this pattern? See how well it matches my napkins?

I could post a how to, but you really just hem each edge with the easy to use iron on tape. Then for your top tab, make sure it’s big enough for your curtain rod to go through.

I’ll be making another pair for the other window in the kitchen. And I should probably go ahead and make some for the main bath and guest room in the house. I used almost an entire roll of hem making just the one pair though. And these are short curtains. So buy extra hem if you’re making long curtains.

I love me some Pinterest, and I pin a lot. I just don’t end up doing most of the things that I pin. One thing I did end up doing was some art work. I’ve learned in the past that when I take a brush to canvas, things don’t end well. Thank God for vinyl letter stickers and spray paint!

I took a square canvas I had purchased for cheap at Big Lots and spray painted the entire thing green. Then I used masking tape to give me diagonal lines. Then I sprayed the entire thing again in this lovely persimmon color.

I spelled out what I wanted to say with my vinyl letters and then sprayed the entire thing, again, in purple this time.

Once the paint I had dried I carefully removed the vinyl stickers and voila!

I liked it so much I did one for my sister too.

I bought my vinyl letter stickers at Michael’s. I love them, but I wish they offered more fonts. Or some in all lowercase. I don’t know if that exists or if I just can’t find it here. And if you’re careful enough, you can use the stickers more than once.

Have you done any fun or new crafts lately?

I love a nice, easy DIY project. And when I read about how Holly made the side tables of her dreams, I knew I had to do one of my own. The timing was great since my cousin in Austin has an IKEA a mile from her home. She’s super crafty so I thought it would be a fun project to do together.

Except that when I got to the IKEA they were totally sold out of the RAST mini dressers.

I had a feeling that might happen to me. I would imagine these dressers are very popular for those who like to create their own cute, cheap furniture. Then it just so happened that my cousin remembered a friend of hers had bought one and maybe she would sell it to me. It turns out her friend didn’t mind selling it to me at all. She was about to move and it would be one less thing she had to move. And the bonus was that she had already put it together and primed it. How lucky was I? Putting it together would have been the hardest part.

Then my cousin cut me out a cute stencil from some fancy little machine she has and I bought some paints. We ended up only having time for me to spray paint the entire thing before it was time for me to come home. Once I got home I started the stenciling process. Except that didn’t go too well for me. I’d never stenciled before and apparently I suck at it.

So I had to scratch the stencil, sand and repaint, and come up with a plan B. I went to Hobby Lobby, bought hardware (50% off), and found a peacock feather stencil. The I opted to use paint markers instead of actual paint. Here’s how it turned out.

I put it in my entryway, since I’ve needed something there for awhile now. I have plans to take down the rug hanging on the wall and paint the entryway and also the hall. But for now, it looks like this. It was a pretty fun project and I think I’d like to do another one in the future.