I love to decorate but like most people I have a budget (most of the time a rather small one). I think even if I had a larger budget I would still be a bargain shopper thanks to my mom. My latest project is my 8 yr old daughter’s bedroom (details of the new decor will be in a future post). The last time her room was decorated was when she was 3 yrs old and moving from a toddler bed to a full size bed. I was lucky to find a quilt for her new big girl bed at Wal-Mart at a great price. So to accessorize I started with a bulletin board, covered it with batting and fabric purchased off a remnant table at a local fabric store. I finished it off with ribbon to create a custom memo board. 
I used the same fabric to cover the seat cushion of an antique rocking chair passed down from my grandmother.
I had also purchased a coordinating fabric from the same remnant table and decided I would try my hand at sewing custom window treatments. At this point I had only dabbled, very lightly, at sewing but was confident that the treatments I wanted were very simple and didn’t require darts, gathers or anything complicated. The treatments consisted of a rectangle piece of fabric stapled to a 1×4 cut the length of the window. I then used scraps of the fabric used for the seat cushion and memo board to make ties. Again, the sewing required straight lines and nothing more. A heavy duty staple gun attached the curtain/fabric to the 1×4, a man with a drill and brackets to hang the board and wah-la!
Since the curtains went so well I decided to make a few throw pillows. Again, straight stitching and you’re done. I had learned how to make a neckroll pillow from a “no-sew decorating” class I attended years ago. Take a roll of batting or you could even use a roll of paper towels, a rectangular piece of fabric with the raw ends turned in, then tie at the end of roll. This one is a little hard for me to explain but I think you can look at the picture and see what I mean. I actually sewed the ends of the pillow fabric and sewed ties using the same fabrics as before. 
Now on to wall decor. The pictures on either side of the dresser mirror are poster prints I bought at an art supply store for next to nothing. The picture frames probably came from Wal-Mart or the same art supply store. Then for the pictures over the bed, I re-used pictures that were in my room growing up. They were colored by my granddaddy while he was sick with cancer. My granddaddy died before I was born but I felt like he had done them just for me. I’m glad to see them hanging on the wall again…
It has been several years since all this work was done and it’s time to do it again. So far it hasn’t been that hard or costly. I am recycling and repurposing most items but all the detail will come once we get it all fixed up!
