Curtains, Coffee and Peanuts

It's Monday. For some reason the boys don't like to nap on Mondays. Yes, I said Mondays. Not just this Monday. Every. Single. Monday. I don't get it. Monday in our house is a nightmare. Case in point. I just ran upstairs to get Jack's clothes so he could stop running around the house naked and I found a pile of hangers on his bed and the clothes in the closet on the floor.....some Mondays I find all the shoes in the closet lined up on his bed. Porter naps in the guest room with tons of pillows. The bed usually turns into some sort of secret fort with pillows piled high and his body not in sight.

Of course since it's Monday, that meant that the things I wanted to get done would not. Although I did get the dimmer in the kitchen installed. And then I broke the plate. And I also installed some curtains that I scored at Goodwill for $6.99 each. And replaced the ugly brown curtains in the family room with drop cloth curtains. It looks awesome!

So, here's the deal on these. I got a 9x12 drop cloth for $19.99 from HD. First I washed it. I had no idea how I was going to cut a straight line, but I figured I would just use the laser. Well, that didn't work, so I just used the seam down the middle of the drop cloth.

Then I folded it in half and cut as best I could along that seam. It seemed (ha, ha) to work.

Then I folded the tops over a little (cause they were too long) and hung them up. No, I did not sew the sides. I didn't even use stitch witchery. I just left them. I think it looks fabulous. I love the tattered edges and the wrinkles.

Before: (This used to drape across the top and I cut them apart. I used stitch witchery to make a hole for the curtain rod. It didn't look terrible, but then I found these hooks at GW for .99 a bag, I got three bags. It looked better, but not great. It's just too dark.)

 After:

 

(If you look closely you can see tape on the second window. That was a car/train table/window mishap. I did that last year, about this time. Good thing Tom doesn't read this or I would be in trouble for posting this for the whole internet to see!)

Now, if I could just figure out a way to remove the carpet without Tom noticing. He did do this on Saturday morning:

COFFEE!

I snuck up on the boys on Sunday night stealing peanuts.....

For next time:

Goodwill purchase. $9.99. I think I'm going to turn it into a bench.

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