{"id":3700,"date":"2009-02-16T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2009-02-16T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T00:55:26","slug":"new-curtains-and-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/new-curtains-and-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"New Curtains and Clean-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since our weekend trip was canceled we decided to make the most of our extra time and work on cleaning the kids rooms. The boys wouldn’t let me take pictures of their room, but the girls were excited about their mess! I am not sure why their room gets so messy as they usually spend most of the day playing downstairs, but I have a feeling there is a little nap time mess making going on in the afternoons.<\/p>\n

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One my my biggest issues in this room are the blinds. For those of you familiar with military housing, you know the blinds are extremely cheap and break when you look at them. The girls’ blinds were a mess because they like to move them out of the way to look out the window. I was tempted to buy some cheap blinds to replace the really cheap blinds, but decided that they would probably just break those too.<\/p>\n

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The girls helped me with their room on Saturday and we were able to get it looking nice and clean once again. Now I need to be more diligent in making sure it gets picked up before they go to bed each night.<\/p>\n

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After Christmas I picked up some nice decorator fabric at JoAnns on clearance for $3 a yard. I was planning on using it to make curtains for the girls’ room. After tripping over it for almost two months in my bedroom I wondered if perhaps I should just purchase some curtains at Target.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I looked for curtains and I was amazed at the prices! Most panels I saw were at least $20 and those weren’t the cute ones! I looked for some in the clearance area and they were about $13 per panel. The absolute cheapest curtains were still going to cost over $26 dollars. I decided to head home and get out my sewing machine and start working on some curtains.<\/p>\n

Curtains are my least favorite thing to sew because it involves lots of measuring, cutting, and long straight seams. Curtains, however are very, very easy to make and can be made by someone who doesn’t even own a machine. Years ago I would use fusible tape to make curtains and it worked very well.
\nFor the girls’ room I used about 4 yards of fabric to make these curtains, and spent about 2 hours making them, with lots and lots of interruptions.<\/p>\n

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I had this ribbon leftover from a gift we received.<\/p>\n

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I am so happy I took the time to make the curtains. To buy similar ones in the store I would have paid at least $25 a panel, so this is a huge savings. The girls love them too and have been calling them their birthday curtains.<\/p>\n

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For more spring cleaning visit Biblical Womanhood. <\/a><\/p>\n

This post is linked to Tackle it Tuesday<\/a> and I am Blissfully Domestic. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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