Project shmoject

(Alternate title: Look, Ma, I'm crafty!)

I was talking with my dear sister a few weeks ago about blogging. She was showing me one of her favorite blogs she reads, thefrugalgirl.com. It's chock-full of useful information on baking, budgeting, repurposing furniture, household chores, and general thrifty living. Incredibly practical stuff for my sister, a newly married woman who is currently learning to build routines into her home life.

Well those thoughts got me thinking about this here blog space, and I wondered what I offer. In the end I figured I offer a little inspiration...perhaps. Practical tips? Rarely. I guess it's not really my thing right now.

That is...until today. Get ready for this:

I crafted today. (I know, I know!)

I found two packages of kitchen towels, each containing 3 different towels, by DwellStudio at Target on clearance for $2.48 each. I loved the designs, though I wasn't sure how the color scheme of brown and aqua would go with my current kitchen colors of red and white. But they were so cute and such a good deal that I figured if I didn't use them I could, at the very least, give them away.

True enough, they didn't go with my curtains and the color scheme I'd already established in the kitchen. So they sat on my counter for a few days, and I mostly ignored them, pouting because they wouldn't work. And then it hit me. They would make great curtains to replace my current ones. Sure, the current curtains were great, but these were looking fantastic, and I would always have my former curtains to return to if I wanted to change back.

A little ironing of the fabric to remove the creases...

A few packs of ring clips I purchased at Wal-mart...

And Voila!...new curtains!

And get this...the curtains were the perfect size! I turned the striped pair on their side to make them into cafe curtains for the window. And with the polka-dotted pair, I totally got lucky because they were just the right length to cover the random hole in my cabinet. They are nicely sewed on three sides with a cute strip of aqua ribbon on the fourth side, giving them a finished look. Long story short, people: Not a single stitch sewed! (contented sigh)

Ok, so maybe this project doesn't exactly qualify as crafty, in the sense of skilled sewing and general making of things with your hands. But I'll settle for the other kind of crafty, meaning cunning and tricky. Because I think getting two pairs of curtains, sans sewing, for the low price of $5 is both cunning and tricky.

Oh, and look who also got her a new pair of kitchen towels after all?!