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Tips For Adding Piping Trim To Pillows

Last week I shared with you how I created my own custom piping for our patio pillows. Easy right?? So, today I'm going to share some tips on how to add it to your pillows.

Lightening Up a Dark Couch With Pillows

Good morning friends! I'm here to say that living on a budget is sometimes no fun. We have been spending way too much on car repairs lately which has put everything else on the list on hold. Maybe you've been there?? So, as much as I would love to finish out our family room makeover with a lovely white slip-covered sectional from Pottery Barn today, I'm just gonna have to wait. So, what to do to make our dark brown sofa fit in?? Pillows, and lots of them!

Tween Boy Bedroom Reveal

I know it seems like it has taken me a long time to finish the kids' rooms!! In reality the majority of the work has been done for a while, just tough to catch the room clean enough for good photos!! :)

Pillows and More Pillows!!

There was a time when we didn't have many pillows in our home, but that will not be the case anymore. Pillows just say 'cozy' to me.

For our master bedroom update I made an easy change by replacing all the pillows and pillow covers. I replaced the red toile pillow shams with some DIY dropcloth envelope shams (made using this method) that I added some ribbon stripes to. I had just enough ribbon left to make two stripes on one end of each sham, but that works, because that's the only part that shows. :)

The blue fabric on the two throw pillows was one that caught my eye in the beginning of the update. I looked at a lot of other options, but this one just kept coming back to my heart, so I made it mine. The pillow in the middle is made with leftover fabric from the headboard. I had just enough. And, once again with the ribbon - only this time I manipulated it to look like a heart! It's not perfect, but that makes it perfect. (These three pillows were made using this method only with a regular zipper instead of an invisible one.)

I was really taken by the fabric on the bolster pillow too. This was one of my last projects, so I was at the end of my budget. I REALLY wanted a bolster pillow. I'm not sure why, but I did. But, since there was no money left, I wasn't sure what I was gonna use for a pillow form. Then I looked at one of the standard pillows that I took out of some old pillow shams and a light-bulb went off. So I did this.