Here's A Trick For You! Thin Curtains! What To Do?  

Oh yeah!! You bet!! LMBO!! There's nothing like real privacy in the bedroom! Especially when married.....

I can't sew worth a toot and damn but I'd sure love to learn how! I had a sewing machine once and tried sooooo many times to get it to work right and couldn't so I ended up selling it before it went out of my window. LMBO! I want to take some classes on how to run a sewing machine some day and say I am but haven't gotten around to it yet but I will..... eventually. But when I got the curtains, I picked my brain silly for an idea and finally came up with the sheets idea and thought, what a neat idea! And I ran with it and it turned out right nice!!

Thanks Hatley! I bought them from blair.com at a very reasonable price although the curtains cost a bit more than what I would normally pay for them but thought, what the heck because put the whole thing together cost and all, it comes out to be a rather decent price. I wish I could afford those slats type of blinds but they're so expensive!! Whew!! Maybe when I get rich, I'll get some. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

There's not a thing wrong with that! When I married the first time, we didn't have any curtains at all so we had to use blankets. They were just plain ole blankets, not cut out or anything. Luckily for you, your mom knows how to sew with a machine whereas my mom HATES to sew and doesn't so I made do with what I had. Curtains are so darned expensive! Even the non insulated ones.

I have a pile of clothes on the dresser that need sewing..just goes to show ya how enthused I am about it as well. lol There's also a few fleece dog toys in there as well whose seams need tending to. Yeah, my mom knows how to use her machine and my bro and I would always take things over for her to sew. Sadly, her right hand no longer functions like it should so she can't use her machine anymore or even sew by hand. :-(

For the most part, I don't sew to repair either. I did HAVE to last night though because well, I love my sweat pants, they're so comfortable and the other night I had my black pair on and they HAD a ripped pocket. The other night I had put my hearing aids in my pocket when hubby went to bed. (I like my peace and quiet times! lol) I went to get a few other things such as my coffee, night meds, cell phone (just in case) and headed upstairs to watch one of my late night tv shows and won't bother hubby. Well I went to get my hearing aids and couldn't find them and thought I must've dropped them on the way up so I went in search for them and couldn't find them anywhere! Scared me mad!! I got so upset and angry at myself. Whew! Hubby and I searched and searched for 2.5 hours and couldn't find them. We went to bed, boy was I ever so mad at myself! Woke up the next morning and went searching yet again and I got overheated and went outside to cool off and felt this string at the bottom of my sweats, only it wasn't a string at all but my hearing aids!! I liked to have come unglued!! I screamed for hubby and showed him the aids hanging out of my pants leg and knew exactly what had happened, I missed my pocket altogether and it went down my pants leg!! I felt like such a fool!! I vowed never again will this happen for once I wash them, I'm going to sew the pocket back and I did last night so no more incidents like that again! Now to explain the hearing aids dangling, mine are in the ear type and both are connected by a wire which goes under my hair. It's called a bio cross because I'm deaf in my left ear and have maybe 40% in my right so any noise on my left side gets transferred to my right aid so I don't miss anything. I don't have any sense of direction when it comes to the noise but I do get to hear it and not be left out. So that's why it was dangling out of my sweat pants leg, from the wire. Other than that, I very rarely sew by hand.

Sorry to hear that about your mom! How sad! Life can be so damned cruel in old age. They say, "Getting old isn't for sissy's!" I have found a lot of truth in that too!

Thank you Abbey!! We like to have things that match whether or not they're the same pattern or not, one plain and the other with a pattern is good and that's what we had before I painted it but the walls were getting chipped here and there so I knew it was time to do something. Everything we had was of a darker color which constantly was fading because I wash our comforter once a month if not more and in cold water but they continued to fade and I got tired of having to replace it and go through the same thing again. It got to be a bit costly. Hopefully this won't fade so quickly.

Is it dated 2008?! Oh shoot! Make me a liar, huh? That damned camera of mine, it eats batteries because of having that part on the back where you can see the picture before you take it, that's the cause of eating the batteries and when we change them, the date goes back to the original date and well, I guess I goofed when setting it. I didn't have my reading glasses on. Oh la la! lol

Wasn't complaining but for some reason my old investigator job still has me paying attention to details. BTW I did not know that is why my camera batteries do not last very long. Thank for the tip!

Oh no no no!! I didn't take it that way!! lol I was just making a joke out of it. We didn't know that that was the cause of batteries not lasting so long till someone at the store counter told us. You're welcome for the tip!

Anybody that can sew by a machine is very lucky lucky indeed!! I had a sewing machine once and tried time and time and time again to sew on it but it was always either loose on top or on bottom and no matter how much I turned that tension dial, it still kept doing it. My ex neighbor in Texas could get it to work just fine but not me. I finally had to give up and sold the darned thing but I do want to take classes on how to use the machine..... some day. I love to sew BY A MACHINE, never by hand, I did it when I was in home ec in school and just fell in love with it but then many years later, when I got the machine, it just didn't work out. Maybe once I take a class on it I'll get another machine and say a prayer before I open the box.

Oh those miniblinds are about as thin as paper and our shadow casting on it, the neighbors can see a silhouette of us. I'd love to get the wooden type but by golly day! The price for those are EXpensive!! So we have to do the next best thing which is get thicker curtains or make them thicker. We don't mind the sunlight during the day which is when we open the curtains but not at night or so early in the morning .

Awwwwww Jo!! You're so sweet!! Thank you!! I can't say I'm all that talented but had to learn to be. I made my own flower arrangements for my wedding and that's when it all started. I have to see other peoples work to get the ideas of how to do it then I try to do it myself but with my own colors. The sheet idea was something that came to mind after a few weeks of wondering what to do and I thought to myself, why didn't I think of that before?! lol I have made some flower baskets, one for the spring/summer time and another for the fall/winter and both are really pretty! I made one for mom too with a basket she already had and she really loves hers so maybe I am a wee bit talented? LOL Mom says I get it from both of my grandmothers because both did a lot of crafts.

I think u do great. One of my problems i don't have any imagination how something will look till it's setting in front of me. I admire people that can make pretty things. U did good.

Guess what Jo..... I don't have any imagination either!! No kidding either!! I just see something and I'll look at it and see how it's put together and I'll go find the stuff that I need to make one for myself! Crazy, yes but that's how I get my ideas.

I think we all have a bit of craftiness in all of us, we just have to find it and pull it out! lol I've had some hit or miss times till I got it right and even then, it was never perfect but who has to know?! lol Like you, when hubby and I cleaned my parents old place and it needed painted something awful, my dad told us where the paint was put and told us to mix it altogether and it should have a nice color to put on the walls. My oldest brother got there before we did and mixed it for us and it turned out to be right pretty! What a shocker it was but it turned out right nice! Now my parents have a renter and hopefully they'll buy the house before too much longer since they want to but can't right yet because of the credit problems that they need to fix are supposedly they're working on it. Now when we got the paint for our bedroom, it was waaaay too light and on the yellow side which was not what we wanted so hubby took it back with one of the pillow shams and got them to darken it a little bit so the brown side would come out and they did a wonderful job at it so it was custom made too. Thanks for your kind words!!