"Oh Happy Day!" It's March 1st and that means....

It's time to start celebrating a month of Green!

Wahoo!! My favorite color, for a whole month -- what more could a girl want?

So the project for today is to take down the Valentine's Day decor. The theme this year was pink. And honestly, I'm not sure that I've even taken photos of what I did this year. Well, except for this one:

 
This the collection of jars in the center of my kitchen island. I started decorating with jars of candy about 4 years ago. It was the only way I could think of to keep clutter from accumulating on the island instead. Which was what was happening. And it drove me nuts! Nowadays, instead I have no clutter and a reputation in the neighborhood as having the "good stuff" out on the counter all the time. What can I say? I know kids & how they think. [Big & small, by-the-way....]

I'll go take some pics and post tomorrow. I got pretty darn crafty with my Cricut this year.

So moving right along to March and GREEN, I'm sprucing the place up with some bright green touches. The one that I've gotten done so far was making slip covers for some couch pillows.

This project came about because:

1. I got some new Christmas decoration this past year and didn't want to buy another storage bin to store. So something had to give and not get packed up. After some selective purging -- the best I could figure was that the Christmas pillows that usually live on the couch would get to stay.
2. But it would be totally weird to have Christmas pillows out after December, right?
3. "Sew simple solution" was slip covers. I've done this before and even though I've got sewing skills, this is just super easy straight lines.
4. Then when I happened to be combing the remnants at a nearby fabric store, I found the most striking remnant of green upholstery velvet. I've used this type of fabric before and it holds up well to abuse. And Baby - can my kid & critters pass out abuse? Oh Yes they can! Besides it was cheap and really wide.


So voila!

Before:

 

After:

 

Not too shabby, I think. So now I'm off to work on the rest of the house. I'm feeling a trip to Michael's or Hobby Lobby coming on. Oh -- and then I need to find some bulk candy in green....

Comments

[Mom Erwin]

alright I like the green pillows, but green candy??? hmmmm will have to think about that!!!