Fancy Felt

So while I wait patiently for my bedding from Urban Outfitters.... okay patiently is not how I would exactly describe it buuuuut... 

Just a reminder and just another reason for me to look at it again

I have to come up with a good way to introduce some color to my new fabulous new room... so I have been googling again and found a new love.  Felt pillows.  Now I know there are the fabulous DIYers that will be creating their pillows from scratch - sewing, stuffing, adding fancy zippers and stuff but I plan to just cheat.

Yes I am a cheater, and I cheated on my senior calculus final - but I promise that is the most major thing I have ever cheated on (god I feel so dirty sharing that - go ahead and judge - the guilty feeling is already flooding back).  So yes, if their is a short cut in life that might just make mine a little bit more fabulous (but is not illegal) I am going to take it.  I have a two year old after all and I am not super mom, super woman or flat out super...or even famous...sigh.

But back to next weeks project....(shhh don't tell Bryan he is starting to catch on to my trend of a project a week).  I am going to try to make/knockoff/replicate some of the following pillows:

 

 

Deep dark secret, I do have a sewing machine that I haven't visited in ages...

 

 

This one will most likely be by hand...wish me luck

May or may not make the cut...not sure

Love the texture

How can I not?

Soft grey background, with light yellow waves?

And this one, just in case the pillows don't quite end up finished ... at least I can have this one for my lovely husband.

But, I am sure you are thinking - really Megan, you really think you can do all that?  This is where my short cut comes in.... Ikea.  I will be buying the pillow inserts from them and hopefully some pillow covers that I will then add my fabulous-ness to. TADA. EASY. I just have to cut felt and sew them on!

So I think this is one way I am going to add a bit of girly-ness back into my bedroom... and crystal knobs on my dresser and nightstands - already got the okay to do that - I know I know this may not seem like a major win but it is.  I have a husband who said the duvet cover at the top looked too girly... uh huh.  It was about the most ungirly thing I could find...


I have also decided to start cleaning out the office which is going to have to play double duty as a guest bedroom once our second one arrives.  The "office" should actually be renamed as the "storage" room... any who... gathering ideas on that... and still going back to a plumb colored desk...Bryan threatened to paint the office back to Miami Dolphins Teal if I did.  I don't know who is going win this one.

So I hope everyone has a great start to their week, hopefully Bryan and I will have some good news to share early this week (no, no, still just one baby boy on the way...don't go thinking ridiculous thoughts...)


Kisses, Meg