And the Craziness Begins...

Just starting the plan for the transformation of my spare bedroom into an office/sewing room/grandma's nursery.  After painting the walls a dusty marble color (gray/green) I spent a few hours searching for fabrics for a window seat, pillows, window treatments and chair cushion.  Big thanks to hubby who always does the rolling after I cut in around the woodwork.

 I did buy a new, small 1" angled brush which worked great for me.  I also found that the blue tape at The Dollar Tree worked just as well as the more expensive tape we had bought elsewhere.  After all, you just use it for a few hours, and then toss it!  I had absolutely no leakage of paint on the edges of the tape -- great job.  We used paint that had a primer built in -- one coat easily covered the walls. 

This project will be an ongoing series of smaller projects.  We'll have to see how that goes!

I have furniture to paint, including a desk, chair, book shelf and crib.  Several sewing projects need to be completed as well.  All this before I start on my daughter's crib set for her nursery.  

First on the agenda is a window seat cushion!  I've never attempted this before, but figure I'd better dive right in to get what I want.  The palette will look something like this:

The colors are a bit muted in these photos... The polka dot is more of a dusty light gray green, not khaki, as it appears. 

I'm using the stripe for the box window seat with the polka dot cording.  I love the paisley -- but will reserve judgement for exactly where that will fit in.  I'll probably use it in some throw pillows for the window seat.

More later as the I get into the sewing of the cushion.  I'm not using a pattern for this -- just putting it together from multiple articles on Pinterest and the Internet.