Master Bedroom Bedding Continued...

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Martha had a great idea on her site to make a {duvet cover} by sewing together two flat sheets. What an easy idea! Now I just need to find some sheets I love. Then, I might add ribbon or other embelishes to fancy it up. To be continued again...

Nursery Curtains

I bought my crib set from Target when it was on clearance so not all of the collection were there. I got an extra crib skirt and sheet to make a curtain out of and maybe some other things later. Since then, I've been trying to decide how I want my curtain to look. Here are some cute ideas I've found.
WeeBabyStuff.com had this idea from Scrapbooks Ect. I think the buttons are so cute! I want to do just a valance, and I found a pretty good tutorial, HERE except I'll do the straps and buttons instead of a gathered casing at the top.
Ehow knows everything I love that website! The fabrics I have are one that's brown with white pokadots and one that's blue stripes. I think I'm going to do the straps and a strip at the top out of the pokadots, have the stripes in the middle, and then to a strip of pokadots at the bottom. Or just the opposite. What to do...

Necklace Rack

I've tried many things to store my necklaces. The problem is they always get so tangled up. A little while ago, I noticed my sister keeps all of her necklaces hanging on a belt rack in her closet. Inspiration!! I don't have space in my tiny closet, so I'm on the lookout for a nice looking hook rack I can hang on the wall in my bedroom. To be continued...

Master Bedroom Bedding

I'm a Potterybarn junkie. I love looking at their room designs. Lately, I've been entertaining the idea of getting some nice bedding for our bedroom. I've tried several color schemes out, but I'm coming to realize that I like a crisp, clean feeling in my bedroom where there aren't many colors involved. Here are a few of my inspirations for what I'd like to do.



Here is a lovely I saw on Marley and Lockyer. It's really pretty, and has that light bedding but with dark walls. I like it. I think it would feel comfortable in both warm and cool weather.
I also love this episode of Divine Design. Candice Olson does a great job redesigning this huge bedroom. Of course, mine would never look like this, but I really like the overall feeling of the room.

This one is from HGTV Canada's show Pure Design and I really like the bed. I like the colors used and that duvet cover is awesome! I guess I like a lot of texture in bedding.
And this one is just lovely!!

Lately, I've been thinking of just making my own duvet cover and pillow shams. They're just rectangles, right? So, I'm off to the Home Fabric store to see if they have what I'm envisioning. To be continued...as almost all of these posts are. :)

Nursery Letters

Potterybarn Kids sell these cute letters to use to put your child's name on the wall. I think they're really cute in lowercase as shown.
It's hard to find lowercase letters anywhere for a bargain so I began searching online. I found a golden website:

{Wholesalelettering.com}

They will make letters for you in almost any font, in many different sizes, three different thicknesses, out of many different woods. They make them for use indoor and outdoor, and they'll paint them for you if you want. It's all very inexpensive. It took me a while to find a font on their website that I liked, but I just got my son's name in the mail and could not be more pleased. I decided to paint them, so I'll need to do that, and then I just need to figure out how I'm going to hang them on the wall. To be continued...

Bookshelf

I found some bookshelves that stack the books so the cover is facing out and I think that's a great idea for little kids. Then, they can see what each book is and stacking doesn't have to be so precise. This put me on the lookout for bookshelves like these. I found this one at Land of Nod for a pretty reasonable price:
Walmart sells this taller one that I thought would be more practical because it would hold more books:

As I browsed the Walmart site, I found this one:

I love the idea of storing books in canvas! It got me thinking that I should make a bookshelf with canvas fabric and a wooden ladder. I'd use neutral canvas, and sew fabric to hang as swags between the ladder rungs. Easy to make, the books are front facing, and it's a soft and quiet solution for storing books. Future project!

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