Table Play Tent

I purchased this flowery sheet at the Salvation army, washed it and placed it on the table. It covered the front, back and side. I pulled in the sides and sewed up and made a "box" on one end. I then cut a square to cover the other side. 

 I then cut 4 "windows and sewed them on around each small pane and the whole window. I then cut the panes out.

I cut up the center and sewed a dart at the top so the door doesn't tear up any higher. Then sewed long strips and added one to the inside and one to the outside of each side to tie the door open.

 We've played in the tent a few times. It's great for enjoying some coloring and snacks!

Inspiration

Recently we heard that our little town had a Salvation Army store. We set out on our walk this morning to find it. We scored all of this for under $7 because unknown to me, the Lord smiled down on me and it happened to be buy one get one free on craft items today!!

Four classic books

8 zippers (2/.25)

a queen flat sheet and a TON of fabric. My plan is to make this:

Lace (I'm collecting it to make this 

skirt someday. I've already made the underneath skirt part. Now I just need enough lace)

Pillowcase Dresses 2

For $2.10 in pillowcases and some fun sewing time while watching Drop Dead Diva, my newest TV guilty pleasure, little lady now has 4 more dresses. She LOVES the silky one but they are all a bit large for her except the yellow gingham. That was a smaller pillowcase so I just moved the pattern around a bit as I cut to make it a bit smaller and cut it shorter. It worked!

 She looks so sweet and it is so thin and airy and summery.

The Pillowcase dress. I'm hooked!

Pillowcase Dresses

I purchased 2 pillowcases for 50cents each at the thrift store. See in the bottom left?

 Using this pattern made them into these sweet dresses/nightgowns! Aren't they adorable?

 I was so tickled with them, esp. since little miss likes dresses, we picked up four more pillowcases. 6 nightgowns/dresses for $3.00. 

Bed Skirt

I've seen some unique ways to add a bed skirt to your bed lately on Pinterest. That started the idea. I was tired of looking at our boxspring, our decorations and our food storage under the bed.

Instead of a new one for $10-15 at the store. I bought this one at the consignment store. Washed it. Tried to dye it black. and then got to work with some tan fabric I purchased there as well. 

Total cost = $3.00

 I cut this tan fabric into strips and sewed them together to make one long strip. Then hem one side.

 Attach the right sides together  (I measured from the box spring top to the floor and wanted the tan to go from the floor up to the bed frame so that's all you see most of the time)

It is not perfect but a fun project and the tans actually match better than it looks in these pictures so it will hopefully draw no notice. As if we ever have visitors in our bedroom :)

Dining Set

My mom and dad gave us these 6 dining chairs before we left Texas. These were our chairs growing up. There's even one with worn spots from a booster seat on one!

We left our chairs in Utah when we moved to Texas so for a few years we just ate on the couch. Then Hadley needed a chair so we used office chairs we'd collected.

Then my parents took pity on us and gave us these chairs. I love them. They are so sturdy. I sanded them down and stained them as show below. Mom also offered to swap tables with us, ours had cracked tiles and was too small for 6 chairs. Plus I want to be able to make forts with our table and our other one had a bar in the way. This table is WONDERFUL. Thanks mom. Oh, she picked it up free on the side of the road, by the way!

Dustin and I sanded it down before the move. Here it is sanded.

 Chair example, pre and post stain.

 The table all stained up.

 Our set.

 I love the "shineyness," it's so clean and bright.

 I love our dining set. Good things come to those who wait :)

Homemade Tees

If you know me, you know that I love these shirts from Shade Clothing. I can't find them online but I love that you don't need an undershirt of some kind. They're nice and light, long and comfy.

 Weird photo. But my first attempt at copying this shirt without a pattern. I cannot find a 50/50% cotton poly fabric here so I will keep my eye out. That will help with the comfort and stretchy-ness. 

 

 This is kind of an 80's fabric but a fun color.

 Oh, and previous dress with fabric added to bottom.