Thrift Store Marriage

It’s DIY day at Kimba’s!

I regularly show you my thrift store finds and tell you that I’m going to do this or that with it.  However, it is often so long before I do anything, if at all, that you may wonder if it ever gets done.  I’ll be honest, sometimes it doesn’t.  But sometimes it does, even if it is months later.

Back in February I found these Pottery Barn panels at Goodwill for $4/pr.  They were only 63”, so I said I’d do something to fix that. 

Then in September I got this fringed bedskirt for about $7, and said I had plans for it.

The two came together as one.  Here is the “before”.  (The thing on the wall which appears to be a large lizard is artwork made of leaves that Skippy gave Pinkerbelle for her birthday.)

And here is the “after”.

And yes, I’m only showing one side because that’s all I have done so far.  The point is, I did something.  So, $11 for what will be a pair of custom curtain panels.  I could make all kinds of excuses, like I know it looks a little heavy on the bottom, and I wanted to put the ruffled bedskirt part at the top but it was much, much easier this way, and that I know I should try to find some kind of fancy trim to put at the joining seam.

But you know what?  Sometimes it’s okay to be content with “good enough”.  I don’t call  myself a lazy seamstress for nothing!