Anthropologie inspired pillows

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Baby Shower Gift {in a jiffy}

Someone help me, I saw on someones blog... at some point in time... a baby blanket that had something like: "eat. sleep. play. repeat." I'd like to link to it, but for the life of me, I could not find it again!

Anyways, I thought it was so cute. And when my {entirely awesome} good friend had a baby shower, I wanted to somehow recreate it. Me sewing it would probably be a disaster, but I thought I might be able to make something cute to hang on the wall. I always save "left-overs" from previous projects. These left-overs came from the backing of an armoire, and the scraps from a faux beam. 

I used to {with every project} print out on normal paper the words I wanted, then exacto them out and use the cut-outs as a one time stencil. Well that gets old really quick. So my husband talked me into making my own stencils. I have 4 different fonts made now {I just make them as I go} and they are so nice to use. It takes about 2 sheets to do the entire alphabet, along with 1-9. Get your own set from Amazon below.

   

While I was having fun on my {home made} craft table, my  husband decided he wanted to do a project along side me. He broke out a computer he is fixing for me and wanted to "share" my craft table. He slowly overtook my craft table until I had a small corner to work from...

I still think it turned out okay. It is hard to tell from the picture, but the words alternate white and light blue {hopefully to match her nursery}.

Dear Home Fabrics,

I love you.

Love, Sommer

In need of curtains and some extra color in our bedroom {see here} I went to Home Fabrics to look for some fabric. Lets talk about TONS of fabric, and all of it is under $20 a yard {at least!}. Me? I stay with the under $4 a yard section, and theres A LOT of it.

You see over there on the left? The darker brown fabric? That is going to be my curtains. $3.50 a yard, good I know right?!

There in the middle with the 50% off tag on it? Yeah, that is going to bring some gold to our bedset {to offset all the green}. Want to guess? $3.00 a yard. 

 
I've never seen anywhere like Home Fabrics. They have SO MUCH to choose from, and you can always find just what you are looking for. I found almost the exact dark brown fabric in the first photo for $7.00 a yard {not too shabby in the first place, but I knew I could do better}. After searching for 10 minutes I found almost the exact fabric for 50% off... equals $3.50 a yard and one happy Sommer.

If only I was the seamstress that could really take advantage of all that wonderful fabric. I've started on the pillow shams and curtains and hopefully will get pictures up soon!

{Just so you can see some upholstery fabric prices, here are some from Amazon, keep in mind Amazon prices aren't too shabby either}