Finished by Friday - Not My Usual

Since I didn't get much sewing done this week I thought you might like to see what I've done while I was visiting my sister. She wanted a little "redo" on one of her downstairs bedrooms and the bath. Her downstairs is a finished basement which includes mother-in-law quarters plus two bedrooms with a bath between. As is usual in basements with few windows, it's dark in those rooms and our main goal was to lighten things up. We found some Shabby Chic curtain panels on sale at Target and because roses are her absolute favorite flowers we grabbed two of those. I made one a shower curtain and cut the other off to make a curtain for the window. That window is a deep set one so I put the curtain at the back and put pictures in front. I used a lot of stuff I found while wandering through other rooms but some things we bought at the junk/antique shop. The picture and the lamp in the top picture were two of those finds. I had some fabric left from the curtain so I have it wrapped around a cushion on the chair. She will cover a cushion with it later. Right, Sherry?


The vase with roses in it was in her sunroom and so was the vintage picture of our grandfather.














This towel hanger that I put behind the door was stuck in a cabinet with the tag still on it. It was another sale item, this time from Hobby Lobby.














I think this little butterfly may be something her youngest daughter left at home after she moved out - I found it in a drawer with a few of her things and thought it would be perfect up above the cabinets.











This picture is almost a repeat but I wanted you to see the little shoes that I hung on the cabinet. We found them at the antique shop - they have tiny ribbon roses on them.
This stencil is from Hobby Lobby and was so easy! It's a peel and stick - I've never seen those before but it was perfect here.
This picture of roses was another find at the antique store. The lamp is reflecting in it so it's difficult to see but it's perfect for this space.

At K Mart we found this bath mat as well as a rug that is in front of the sink and a toothbrush holder and lotion dispenser. One of them says Sing As If No One Is Listening and one says Dance As If No One Is Watching. The mat and the rug both have a variety of inspirational words on them. And the colors worked well in here. That's about all I had time to do in here so I moved to "my" bedroom.
The first thing I did was slant this bed in the corner and move a couple of other pieces. The rose picture was another antique shop find and the quilt is one our Mother made, but this is the back side of it.

The balloon shades on these windows came from Target and are part of the Shabby Chic line like the bathroom curtains. The lamp my sister had and the frame came from Hobby Lobby. As did the greenery which I just stuck in a glass vase that was in the room.

This lamp was in the room already but I took a crocheted collar mother had made and slipped it down over the shade. I love it! The saucer was an antique shop find and is very unusual - it has a handle on the top. Not sure what that was for originally.

Besides getting the cushion covered my sister still needs to put some pictures in the new frames, find something else to put on the dresser, maybe add a rug in the bedroom and also some rose sachet. But I'm calling my part done!