Girl's Room, Revisited

 I finally got a couple of things done in the girls' room!

Okay, by "finally" I mean that ever since Olivia was born, I've wanted to get her name print up. So, "finally" as in, "not even four months".

I'll get to the print a little later, though.

The one big thing I haven't been satisfied with are the curtains.

What was in there was a simple white liner from the old purple curtains, and I sort of tacked on a pink ruffly thingamabob.

 

 

 Can we all agree they were sort of blah?

Okay, maybe it's just me and my brain. 

I really have a hard time leaving things one way for too long.

(My husband has learned this very thoroughly.)

So, I started looking at curtain ideas and came across these from Pottery Barn Kids:

But OOF-DAH! $90 for a curtain panel?

My brain kicked into gear.

I had two goals:

1: Make ruffly curtains on the cheap.

2: Make one curtain fit perfectly on the single odd-sized window.

All started well. It was cheap because my white fabric was in a bundle, given to me for free.

(Love free stuff.)

I measured very carefully so I had perfectly sized, perfectly customized window coverings.

Then I cut strips for ruffles, and started working from the bottom up.

I pinned the edges first, then eyeballed my way toward center.

Yes, I did repin this at least once.

I also probably called it stupid more than once. (Don't tell my kids.)

 Once I had it fairly well pinned I stitched it down and sort of shoved the loose fabric into bunches as I went.

It worked pretty well, and I got two lovely rows on 3 curtain panels.

Then a few things happened:

1: I ran out of fabric for more uniform ruffles.

2: I have 3 small children that make it...um...complicated...to get projects done.

3: I actually really liked just 2 ruffles.

So, here is how they look now:

 Can you imagine those slathered in ruffles?

It might still happen, but I have so many options!

Finish in white ruffles, do an ombre of pink shades, or just put some lovely pink trim along the existing ruffles and call it lovely. 

(Whatever I do, I got a whole lot of "wow", "pretty" and "OOOH" from my girls over them!)

So anyway, here is what they look like:

 And here's the updated wall:

So, between butterflies and ruffly curtains, I'm keeping it totally girlie.

 In case you're wondering, that teal paint for the frames is my own cocktail of colors.

I typically get inexpensive frames from someplace like Walmart, so then if anything gets knocked down and broken I'm not out a chunk of change. (and yes, I have hung things as securely as possible because I also take the safety of my children into consideration. Thank you.)