She's Crafty: I made a pillow!

Poochies modeling

This summer I went to bring home my friend Phippsy from the Outer Banks and I got to stay at the house she was staying in all summer. This house was owned by a lady she worked with and it was FAN-TAS-TIC. Everything was pink and yellow and covered with roses and peonies. She had found the plans for her adorable cottage in a magazine and it was a wonderful floor plan. It had a huge kitchen filled with light, a master suite upstairs, a homey porch and it was decorated with tons of vintage details. It was the epitome of shabby chic which is like my favorite thing ever but unfortunately I live with this guy who doesn't want our home to look too girlified.

I knew I wanted to thank our hostess with a little gift and peonies seemed like a good jumping off point. I looked on ETSY and looked for note cards, knick knacks and doodads for a while and then one day I realized that I had a bunch of fabric that would be perfect and I whipped up this pillow.

The back of it is this supersoft, white, nubbly fabric called, "minky" that is really nice to have on a pillow but kind of a bitch to work with. The back is not a pretty as the front.

Sometimes people ask me why I don't put my stuff on Etsy and the main reason is that even though I am crafty, I am not a perfectionist, and I tend to create what I like to think of as "mullet projects." A mullet project looks good in the front but it an absolute mess in the back. It looks professional from a distance but don't get too close.

This fascinator is a really good example of one of my mullet projects:

It is super cute in the front but it's mounted on the lid from a poster tube, smothered in hot glue and propped up with beads. All of that is hidden when it's on but I don't think anyone would want to pay for something like that.

It's cool though. I craft for myself and to make things I can use, not really for artistic purposes. It just makes me happy!