A New Year, A New Look

John and I have been wanting to redecorate the living room for a while.  It's always nice when you find one piece that gets it all started.  We found this trunk at a local antique barn.  We decided to take the TV off of the mount on the wall and put it on the trunk.

That way I could decorate the mantle.  I have changed my mantel so many times already, I love it!  This is how it looks currently.  I'm sure I'll piddle with it again.  Everything was complete except our pillows.  We couldn't find any anywhere that were the color scheme we wanted.  Finally one night I ran up on one on Etsy and had to stop my self from buying a $30.00 pillow.  Yes.  It almost happened.

I called mom, and we discussed what we could do.  The next weekend we left for Hobby Lobby and spend about $30.00 on fabric and created all of my pillows.

The smart part was we just sewed envelope pillow cases to cover the ones that were in there.  Very resourceful.
These are the finished products!  A special thank you to my mom for being so fabulous and figuring out the logistics of this project and for teaching me so much about sewing.  Because of you our living room is bright and cheery and just the way we wanted it!