Easy Envelope Pillow Covers

This past summer we traded in our old hand me down couch from my parents and did an adult thing and bought a new oversized chocolate brown couch and matching chair. Our new furniture came with some tan and brown throw pillows which might have suited someone with western tastes but definitely not ours. However they were big and plush and if you have ever priced out throw pillows you might find yourself wondering how they can charge so much for some stuffing and squares of fabric.  I used this incredibly easy envelope pillow cover tutorial and some fabric I picked up from Ikea to transform these big plush pillows to match out style.

Feeling Crafty

(the view from yesterday's evening walk)

Warm fall days are definitely over in Colorado and winter has set in.  I have been trying to take walks after work but it is so hard since it is dark by 5!...I can never decide how I feel about daylights savings. So I tend to gravitate to crafty projects and sewing more this time of year. Today I finished my wreath I have been working on for the past few weeks. I have had this idea forever.  It has just taken a little bit to get around to it. I also ordered these lights to eventually wrap around it but they are on backorder because just look at them! They are too cute!



 

On a side note I figured out where all the leaves go when the wind kicks up in the neighborhood. My house.

snow snow snow

This is what I woke up to this morning after I slept in. I received the automated phone call from the school I work at last night stating that school was cancelled so I stayed up late reading. Some of the snow has melted but there is still a nice blanket of it everywhere else. Like most people I am totally over it but I know it is almost April and snow this time of the year melts quickly.

Most of today I just hung out, did some laundry and read a little. We were supposed to have parent teacher conferences tonight from 3:30 to 8 and even though I would be perfectly capable of driving to school it was cancelled since school was cancelled. Needless to say I am perfectly fine not doing 4 1/2 hours of parent teacher conferences. I also started looking up crafting ideas that I can do while I am not mobile after my surgery on Friday. My biggest flaw is my inability to sit still and do nothing. I can't hang very well with it. So I found this super easy way to make paper rose. I think I am going to make a bunch of the flowers and take some of the branches that broke from this snow and put them together in a vase.