Craftiness

Ok... I'll post some pictures.

As promised, the dust ruffle/bed skirt for the crib matches ours. This is very exciting to me. I am also in the process of creating some "bumpers" for the crib (thanks, Jodi!). Please note that these are the "safe" kind of bumpers that won't suffocate a baby should he fall asleep with his face pressed up against it. But it will keep his arms and legs from getting stuck between the slats.










And as you can see, Elmo likes it already (even though I haven't finished the second piece of the bumper set yet). I still have more of the red fabric left, so there *will* be more added to this set before I'm all done. Hehe...

By the way, the fabric came from a set of twin sheets (that matched our bedding) that we bought to make curtains for our bedroom in Green Brier. They of course don't fit anything in our new apartment, so I've been using pieces of them for Elmo's bedding. Perfect.






The other project I was working on (and finished this weekend) was for the living room. A few weeks back we picked out a fabric for some throw pillows and a coordinating fabric for the window... treatments. (Mostly Matt's choosing... he wanted *gold* but was quite particular about the gold that was to be used and did NOT want real curtains or anything that would block the light that comes in these windows) I made the pillows the next day, but had to wait until we could get down to IKEA to get the rest of the parts we needed for hanging the window things. We were planning on using a curtain rod, but we ended up using curtain wire instead. I actually like it quite a bit and would definitely do it again. It works much better for this project than a rod would have.