Freshening Up a Bit

In the midst of all my Christmas preparations I squeezed in a sewing project -- just didn't squeeze in the blog post about it.  Our house is bright and fun.  Well, bright at least.  I like a lot of color.  I've been feeling the need lately to add some more feminine touches, hence the mermaid blue furniture and chandeliers.  I decided my old throw pillows covered in t-shirts needed to be girl-ified, too.  Enter the ruffles:

I wasn't sure how freezer paper stencils would work on burlap.  Turns out it works great!  For the burlap ruffles on both pillows I cut the selvage edges off of my yardage of burlap (the stuff left over from the bedroom floor) so that it wouldn't fray.  Brilliant, huh?  {Also, burlap is really scratchy so the dog keeps off of it.  Bonus!} So, it's still bright and fun, in my opinion, and not so girly as to offend the male sensibilities in the room.  That's my kind of design!