Pottery Barn on a budget

Missed me?  I have been super sick, but thankfully I am much better.  I have been confined to the parsonage for weeks and thought I was going to lose my mind!  I feel like I had decorating withdrawals with no projects going on, so I got a quick fix Saturday morning by hitting a few garage sales. 

I found a few treasures…a set of rusty tin tiles, a Pottery Barn wall shelf, and a super cute set of placemats and napkins.  The Rev hung the shelf for me yesterday…love it.  I have shared that our master bath is tiny and outdated, so any extra storage is welcome.  The picture is from a great vacation at the beach…the shell came from my Grandparent’s house…the silver cup was the Rev’s baby cup…I am on the lookout for something to lean in the back of the last cubby – will shop the house.

I am linking to Today’s Thrifty Treasures at Southern Hospitality.

Ruffled shower curtain

It has been a busy weekend! I have been working on a little master bath spruce up. When you live in a parsonage the bathrooms are usually very low on the update list. So, this often makes you work with what you have and make the best of it.

Looking online for ideas, I came across this blog and instantly became inspired – love that! I loved the shower curtain and was brought back to the day when I was standing in Anthropology trying to decide whether or not the Rev would kill me for buying a very expensive, but very fabulous ruffled shower curtain. After deciding that groceries and gas were priorities {I hate being a grown up sometimes!} I just walked away…so sad…fast forward to last week. I was inspired…I was motivated…I was scared to sew and cut fabric. Then my sister decided to visit for the weekend – hallelujah! She has recently caught the sewing and quilting bug, so it was not hard to enlist her help. She did all the cutting and laying it out and I sewed. It is not perfect, but I love it!

We used 90” bleached muslin from Hobby Lobby. The whole project was under $20!

Just folding and sewing random ruffles

ruffles – ruffles – more ruffles

taped to the floor with painters tape to hold in place

bottom of curtains

That is an antique ceiling tile above the towel hooks.

can’t fit it all in the frame!

If I can rope my sister into doing the bulk of the work – so can you! Thanks Sister.