This was a 2 piece sectional with attatched back cushions. I cut off the cushions and “boxed” them. Which means 2 rows of piping like on a box cushion instead of the single row of piping (pillow style) that was there originally.

The back cushions looked a little saggy before…but once I boxed them they filled out better, also the cushions can be flipped which helps distribute the wear.

Before…gingham was getting a little bit worn.. you can kind of see where I cut the cushions off, and notice the single row of piping on the back cushions.

See how the front of the arm tapered down…I wasn’t sure how to make it look good, I played around with pleats and then chose to seam it…which worked really well. We also made the skirt taller and dropped it from the decking.

After…see the back cushions are now “boxed”. She went with a solid tan twill/denim, that way she has a neutral base and can switch out pillows.

Here is the front of the arm where I seamed it to taper it out instead of doing pleats. I thought it would look cleaner that way.

Another after…I love how it changed the feel of the room..more calm and serene with her gorgeous blue walls.

I ran 9 miles on Friday to get ready for Del Sol Ragnar Relay next weekend. They changed the legs again…. so now my longest is 9.2 miles instead of 7.6. We all (12 people on a team) take turns running three times each. The whole race is about 200 miles. I am so excited to go and get myself another medal for my collection!

So I haven’t been very good about making my bed lately…so I decided to make some new pillows, so it’s exciting and new again. I am really bad about putting away my laundry and every night when I get ready for bed I leave all my clothes in a heap on the bench at the end of the bed. Then after two weeks or so go by and the heap is really big, I put them away…and they are all mine, nothing of my husbands. I think I am just so tired by the end of the day, it’s all I can do to put myself to bed.

This is after I’ve fallen asleep on the couch and have woken up at 1am and drag myself up to bed. (These are the nights Heber’s at work)… because the nights he’s home, I still fall asleep while we are watching tv, but the difference is he gets up and takes my blanket away and flips the light on before he heads upstairs.

And I can say for the past week since I’ve had my new bedding…my clothes have gotten put away every night. My room is a lot cuter when it’s clean.

I made changed my euro pillows to a solid gray.. then I found just enough of this green stripe in my stash to do the front of the standard pillows. I backed them with some tan linen. Then I reused the front pillows from my front room. I love when I can go through my pillow covers and find some that I can reuse.

I am still in love with the mini white linen ruffle. But I am definitely in love with the Menswear look right now too…so I figured I’d do a little of both.

I actually like the tan linen on the back of the stripe. I also love the stripe going horizontally (good thing, cause that’s the only way it’d work with how much fabric I had).

Here’s the whole bed. I still need to make the new cushion cover for the end of the bed…but that’s for another day. The bench at the end of the bed was a coffee table.

Here are new pillows for the front room. The last ones I made (red ruffle) was just for holiday. I knew I wanted something different for the new slipcovers…so this was always the plan, I just barely got around to it. The stripe pillow was a homemade curtain from a thrift store that I got for $3. I cut it up and made pillows. The velvet pillow was from some fabric samples I got from Restore they were 10/$1….so I bought 50 different samples for $5!

This houndstooth pillow (turquoise/cream) was from my pillow cover stash that I had made a few years back.

Close up of the homemade curtain pillow (turquoise/brown)

The center of this pillow was from my 10/$1 sample fabrics

I pieced a bunch of the samples into a footwarmer for my bed…I liked it but it wasn’t completely me….so luckily I had sewn a solid gray fabric on the back (reversible). I ended up using that side instead.

 Close up of the footwarmer.

Side note ….here is baby Milo with 2 of my boys and the twins. My boys are begging me to snuggle, so I’d better get going.

Here’s another chair I did for a client. Luckily she had bought an extra 2 yard piece that she was using as a makeshift tablecloth. I took it with just in case we needed it to get the ottoman done. I used every bit of fabric!

Before muslin chair…ready for a new slipcover.

After tan/cream floral…

Another after shot.

I liked this black gingham pillow she had on the bench behind the chair. I always think everything needs a pillow on it to finish it off.

Close up of the front.

I just finished making new pillows for my bed and front room, so I’ll be posting those pics soon. I leave in 9 days to head to AZ to run the ragnar relay there. I can’t wait to be in 70 degree weather running in shorts showing off my tan (white skin with freckles)!

My sister is having her baby on Thursday! Can’t wait to meet baby Milo. I am taking her 4 year old twins for a few days while she has the baby. My kids can’t wait for all the sleepovers we are going to have this weekend. I am going to get to hang out with a little girl! Imagine that, I am not sure what little girls like to do. Angie is going to send lots of crafting stuff. I might even help her sew something.