Ruffled & Felt Pillows

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Has it hit you that were all ready into November! Wow! I'm not that much of a fall decorator, (Christmas is my thing), BUT when you have a little girl who is already into decorating you kinda have to. So I put a few pumpkins on the mantel and a small "fall" candle ring on the candle stick. Gosh, I sound like a party pooper. (Sorry) Excuse the poor lighting, seems like summer may be over finally.



Fall Mantel 2011

  

Fall Mantel 2011



Fall Mantel



 I also changed the rug in my dining room. After I posted my pictures in my last entry I decided I needed color, so I changed the rug and the position of the table. And I'm pretty happy with the results. Along with the rug I added my glass candle holders, where I layered a few fall leaves. 





Fall Dining room 2011

(after)

  

Fall Dining room 2011
(before)



I wanted to share a little trick with you. We all pretty much own at least one apothecary jar, and if your anything like me you will most likely fill them with just about anything. (You can see my apothecary post here). Well I decided to fill one up with dry bow tie pasta, only thing was I didn't have quite enough to fill it up. SO, here's what I did...

Apothecary sitting by the rooster



Fill it up about a third of the way depending on size



Stick empty water bottle nozzle side down

Add your pasta and WALLA!!!!

One of my other latest addictions is pillows. With my recent change of decor, I thought a fresh pillow update was needed. So with fabric I had on hand I went to work. With my left over shower curtain fabric seen here, a summer visit to my mom (small houndstooth fabric) and left over felt from my small felt flower business, I was able to make 3 different pillows. I used the pillow inserts that I already had which saved on having to buy new ones.



Here's a small tutorial for the felt pillow. I started by folding the pillow case corner to corner to find the center. Then I pinned the petals along the outter part of the flower.



I pinned them about an inch apart folding the sides in while pining. Once I had a whole row pinned I sewed them on with my sewing machine then continued to the next row by pinning and sewing.  



I did two rows of the biggest and medium sized petals. Each new layer I placed them between the exsisting petals.



Upclose shot.

I was going to post a tutorial on the ruffled pillow on here but found this great one on Pinterest... I tried to find out where it came from but it kept taking me to a deadend. So by all means, if you know who made this great tutorial let me know!

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2 of my 3 babies on Sunday morning

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