We have curtains over here this week. One fun curtain and six necessary ones.

My friend needed a curtain for the Kidspace Pumpkin Festival – for one of those game booths. I think for this game you throw the fishing line “into the witch’s brew” (over the curtain) and fish for a prize. Anyhow, they needed a 10′ x 6′ curtain. So…we fashioned a little one for her.

It was kinda impossible to get a good photo since I don’t have a floor spot big enough to spread it out. Imagine trying to sew that  cauldron on in the middle of the 10 foot long material. It was tricky to get it all through the machine, believe me.

Added a little spider…

And a witch peeking out, too…

I think it turned out really cute. I’ll have to get photos of it in action, though.

And then I turned my attention to much needed curtains for our dining room.

When we moved in, we had…well, some very lovely wrought-iron hardware. But no curtains. (Look how little Emmy is!!)

And, four and a half years later…still no curtains. Mostly because I didn’t want to put money into something we didn’t really need, or might not be in the house later to enjoy. And also…I couldn’t quite decide on a color. Oh, and also…curtains are expensive! I really loved these at PB, but do you see how much they are?? Even on sale. And we need the very long ones (high ceilings) and SIX panels (big window + 2 french doors!). So since I didn’t have $850 to drop on drapes, we were doing just fine without them, thank you very much.

Then a few weeks ago we stopped into a The Great Indoors store that was closing and I found gorgeous silk drapes that look suspiciously like the ones from Pottery Barn marked down from $89 a panel to $16. $16!! Yep. $96 for all the drapes in my dining room. Sold.

Of course I did need to hem them, hence the other half of the curtain edition today. I know it isn’t really crafty, but it is all the action my sewing machine got this week. And I’ll have to take a better photo of the room in better light – they are really pretty, kind of a cross between a spun gold color and a butter yellow. I think they are neutral enough to go with whatever we decide to do in there. It may take us another four years to paint and rearrange the artwork, but baby steps…baby steps.