Busy Hands Homestead

A little over a month ago I spent hours staring at Joanne's fabric selection.  I had a difficult color pallet to match.  Our bedroom floors are sage.  Adam and I have a two toned yellow bedroom, and Ivory and Sylvan's walls are orange and lilac.  We purchased all paint as partially used cans from Home ReSource .  The result is colorful and fun...  but oh so difficult to match.  I found a great orange fabric that happens to have a very similar pattern to our dining room drapes, and I was searching for a purple based fabric to hang against the orange walls.  The patters were just so full of bright purple butterflies, flowers and birds... not what I had in mind.  After a while I grabbed an unbleached muslin off of the rack and purchased 5 yards of it with the plan on stamping my own lilac pattern.   Every window in our house finally has curtains. I finally marked that project off of my list today.  How to make your own stamped...

We have one giant kitchen window.  It happens to face our neighbor's yard.  It also happens to be across from the bathroom door and thus makes running through the house in our underwear, well, a little too public.   Friday Adam came home from work early, and while my two little ones were asleep, I took the opportunity to run to our local YWCA thrift shop Secret Seconds .  I scored! I found a brand new curtain rod and a dark green, sheer curtain for $16.   But, after hanging the curtain, it was a little to dark and bland.  I took it back down and headed into the garage to see if I could find the left over kitchen paint (light yellow and orange).  I found it and decided I was going to use it to spruce up the curtain. So, here is what you need if you want to sponge paint a curtain: 1 large sponge (or more) scissors latex paint  a plastic plate big sheets of paper (to protect the surface you are working on) a cu...