Grandma Barton

Things I will always remember about my grandma

• She taught me how to sew. 
• Eggy french toast. 5 seconds on each side and it was ready to go. 
• Handing out lifesaver creamies to all the neighborhood kids and I. She would roll down her window, and the kids would line up. I'm pretty sure the candy was at least a year old.
• Her fuzzy steering wheel cover. 
• Her letting me drive her car when I was about 13. 
• Coming over to her house after elementary school to help her "organize", clean, or vacuum up her crumb collecting car. 
• Sleep overs watching Shirley Temple. 
• Notes taped to our front door. 
• Her asking me to paint her toenails. 
• Me gagging at the state of her toenails. 
• Her taking my brothers and I every Saturday to the Great Steak to get breakfast. This is where I fell in love with biscuits and gravy. We also go hot chocolate each time. 
• Her mortifying me, picking me up from my 7th grade drama class, her head bobbing in the window. 
• Telling me I looked like a "movie star" with my new haircut. 
• Pot roast that had been roasting for several days. 
• Her ambition to make any container a Tupperware. 
• Post it notes galore. All over her house and car reminding her of things. 
• Her playing card games with us as a family. My dad turning to her and animatedly saying "wild!" It scared the bejeezes out of her. 
• I remember her telling me that lipstick could also be used as "rouge" when necessary. 
• The orangey tone of her lipstick. 
• Her animal print shirts and dresses. 
• Her reddish hair color and pouffy hair style. 
• The way she would mover her hand up and down when she was saying something important. 
• Her paying half the money for my guitar. 
• The way her perfume smelled perfectly of old lady. 
• Use jumping on her mini trampoline. 
• Most importantly, I will remember her love. She loved us dearly. 

I love you Grandma! I am so happy you are free from your dementia. I can't wait to see you again. 

DIY Envelope Pillow

Hey howdy hey!

So now that our main construction is done for our two rooms downstairs, I have decided it is time to decorate. Which is a double edged sword. Pinterest makes it look so easy, real life makes it way harder. I'm new to the whole decorating stuff, so I'm sure I'm going to change my mind many times. I did find a place to start, recovering my throw pillows on the sectional. The old ones didn't match whatsoever. I have made quite a few envelope pillow covers. I learned out to do it from this tutorial on youtube...

I can now make one start to finish in about 15 minutes. They are really easy! This would be great for a beginner sewer (hopefully you read that in the right context) as well because it doesn't deal with any zippers. Then you can jazz it up by adding ties, or ruffles.

Anyway, I started these pillows last night and just cruised through them. Here are the before.

Oh hey finger. 

As you can see, the long pillows already look worn. Even though I keep telling Jeremy to PLEASE not lay on them while he watches TV....

And here are the after

I tried to make sure I kept it simple (K.I.S.S). I'm usually one to through ruffles, fabric flowers, etc, on everything. Then I get too overwhelmed and end up disliking it. I tried to choose big print patterns and little print patterns to balance out all the miss matched fabrics. Who knows, I may end up not liking it. But for now I do.



The only thing I'm a little "eh" about right now is the grey pillows on the brown couch. It looks better if you look at it standing from the kitchen, because you can see the brown of the palette wall. I would prefer a dark grey sectional. But, you can't have your cake and eat it too (is that saying even applicable right now?)

I was able to cover 7 pillows for about $30. Not bad if I say so myself! Now off to the next project, that will more than likely involve succulents...