Check out Elizabeth's easy Roman Shade

My friend Elizabeth has great taste, wonderful things and mad skills with her fabulous embroidery machine but she is scared of cutting a piece of fabric. You heard me, scared. This week she looked her scissors in the eye, declared "you are not the boss of me" and cut some fabric to make some fabulous Roman shades made from ~~~mini-blinds!! She found the tutorial over at the Little Green Notebook blog. Look at the finished product! Pretty wonderful, right?


Considering a try myself.

"Candlelier" OR Really Strange Jewelry Storage

Candlelier (pronounced like "chandelier")

Lots of broken jewelry pieces, bracelets, earrings, watches, plus random beads & crystals.

Do you have broken shiny stuff?
Don't throw that away!
Send it to me and I'll add it to the candlelier!

The window? Kay gave it to me after a failed patio table project. I reverse painted* it for a faux window in the bathroom.

*Reverse painting - painted from back of glass instead of top surface of glass, meaning the white clouds were painted first then the blue sky.

Check out more window tricks at
Country Chic Cottage
on June 14th!