Sweet Vintage Linen Pillows

It all starts with a snowy day....

You're a bit board

{and don't want to do housework...which is what you should be doing...}

So you decide to 

start a project!

You know...those projects in your project room you haven't started yet ;)

So...you grab those nifty vintage linen napkins you've been saving...

and that old chenille bedspread and you cut

and cut

and cut

Then you sew those two together

and sew

and sew

and sew

and stuff....

{you get the point...we're making a LOT of pillows here!}

 A little slip stitch at the bottom....

and put them in the

FINISHED

pile

{did you hear that...FINISHED!}

 Well...

finished with this project at least!

Join us this week over at Ivy and Elephants for What's it Wednesday!

{where there's always something fun & creative going on there!!}

You guys got any fun projects you are starting or finishing today?

~Karla & Karrie

The Embellishment Factor

When you look all day

at a ho-hum pillow, 

you might think that there has 

got

to be something you could do to take it from this.....

to This....

So, I took some old fabric we had 

cut it into strips, and fashioned it into a bow

I then put one of my vintage pins 

on it to hold it in place....

I sat it on top of my pillow...

already it looks better :)

I dug through the ribbon drawers and found 

a ribbon that would work!

I tied the ribbon around the pillow and after I knotted it

 and tacked it into place with my needle & thread.

Of course, 

I had to add a few more loops 

to make a nice full bow.  

Then I pinned the pin on top of it....

Voila!

What an exciting pillow I have now!

What will you Embellish?!!

Join us for some fun with 

Paula & Patti from Ivy & Elephants 

for their What's It Wednesday!

Pillow Toss

Isn't it grand to decorate for Christmas?

{Neither of us have had a chance to get our own decorations out yet

because we've been so busy at the store!} 

One of our favorite things to do

is to switch out some of our throw pillows in our house

 for some Christmas pillows!

Here are some of our new ones we have in the store....

We love mixing these vintage inspired pillows

with our quilted holly and striped pillow...

it makes a nice mix!

How about you....

what kind of decorations do you like to toss in the mix

of everyday to create your Christmas look?

Have a fantastic Monday!

[RED] Bird is the Word

A present!

To: me

From: me!

For quite some months, I've been admiring pillows from

Red Bird Vintage Home on Etsy

This is the first pillow that I needed to have....

mmmmmm......this will be perfect on my porch....not that the porch is quite ready for it at the moment (I need to finish painting the furniture & the cushions are almost all done!), but give me two more weeks & this pillow will be setting pretty on the settee!

This is the second pillow that I needed....well, I didn't need it, but my son's room needed it! He's got that Army theme going on...and what better to pull it together, than to put a Swiss army blanket pillow on it?!!

I just love my Red Bird Vintage Home pillows...

I love details that Kay puts into every one of her pillows.

Of course, I think its great that she repurposes things to make such delightful things.

Thank you Kay!

Keep on making those fabulous pillows!

Pillow Power

So...these Pottery Barn sweater pillows are just really cool - we love the texture & that cozy look that it gives....but we've found sweater pillows that you can make yourself that are far superior to these (we just love it when that happens!)

image from potterybarn.com






The first pillow is from Country Living - the new issue just came out and we loved all of the ideas for old sweaters - the flower embellishment is just too cute!

image from countryliving.com

The next two pictures are from Martha Stewart - we love the details in these pillows - how the sleeves are even used in these - very clever Martha!
Image from Martha Stewart

These puckers are so adorable - can't you think of a million places to put these pillows? We can!

image from marthastewart.com

For a basic sweater pillow, we found instructions on the cutest blog Make It and Love It - cute, cute things over there!

So, what are you waiting for? Get some sweaters & make some pillows....go on....what do you have to loose?

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." ~Edwin Land