Being Intentional. Make do and a CAUTE Pillow!

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Today I thought I would talk a little about a goal that I listed for 2011.  Well actually several of my goals for this year seam to overlap.  The one goal that I was originally thinking of for this post was what I listed as “be more intentional”.  For me here in this context it means to think and plan before doing or BUYING.  Goal number two is to declutter and goal number 6 is to put $50. dollars a week into savings and goal number 8 is to pay down debit.

By remembering to be more intentional I can begin to work towards these goals. 

You may also remember that goal number 4 is to start finish my living room redo.

So the first thing that I have begun to do is to take inventory of what we have and what we would like to replace.  As I have begun to do this I am trying to be more intentional as to what with some changes could work in the new space.

So today I began to go through my stash of fabric.  I have wanted new pillows for the couch and have planned to recover some others.  In fact the only reason that I have not come home with any new ones yet is that I am waiting till we are able to get the new couch.  Well while going through the fabric I came across some things that I thought would be a good start.

This is a dollar store dish towel that I got at the thrift store a while back for .50 cents.  It was brand new.  I just loved the little pom pom trim and the red color.  Red is one of my accent colors for the living room. 

Of course I did not want a pillow or a towel or anything else that said “naughty”.

I also found this small scrap of a sweater that was left over from several other projects.  It was originally given to me and never fit right.

I also had this tank top that either came from a yard sale for .25-.50 cents or was given to us.  I love the print but it is not the right size for me and is not  the right cut for my girls.

The teal/turquoise/blue color is my other accent color in the living room.

So I used a paper cup and traced a circle onto the sweater.  The top of the cup made big circles/flowers and the bottom made small.  I found a great tutorial that used felt here.  At a new blog that I just found yesterday called Life in the Thrifty Lane.

For the print fabric flowers I used the tutorial here.  After adding the flowers and playing around with their placement I added some white rick rack “stems”.  This was from my stash but I originally got it from our church rummage sale last year. 

I felt that the brown flowers were still a little bland so I got into my stash of vintage buttons.

This is still before I glued it all down.

I started on the left and with the rick rack.  After getting the first two pieces of rick rack glued down I added the flowers that went with them.

Here it is all glued down.  I then added red pom pom fringe to the sides, but forgot to take a picture . 

Well here she is from naughty to NICE.

I really love it and I stuck to my goals YEA!

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