Valentine's day will soon be upon us. I put up our one and only decoration yesterday, and now, I want to do more! Growing up, my mom would always dress the house from top to bottom in "love decor" for the holiday. It always looked like so much work to put it all up, and then take everything down. What about that is fun? Being in my own apartment, now, I realize how much I miss the fun decorations. Poor Justin. He probably thinks I'm so un-festive. (Is that even a word?)
Yesterday, mom and I made a curtain to hang over our little kitchen window (remember how much we love that one?). Jus and I have talked about putting one up for forever. We had some decorator fabric we bought at Ikea for a different project that didn't work out, and we figured we could just use it to make kitchen curtains. I was pleasantly surprised when curtain construction turned out to be easier than I imagined. (Really. Four steps and you're done!) I left my mom's house with high hopes that this would be just the thing to make our kitchen look better.
Let me tell you a little bit about our kitchen first. It's green. Green counter tops, and little green diamonds in the linoleum. The cabinets are oak. You get my picture? Don't get me wrong. The kitchen looks nice, on its own. It's only when I try to incorporate black and red kitchen towels that things start to look weird. Our curtain is a bold black and white stripe. At first, I thought it would work... Black will go with anything, right? But this optimistic thought slowly turned into a desperate plea for my misgivings to be wrong, just this once. "This curtain WILL look good, I say!"
Sweet Justin. After standing on the counter, twisting his arm upside down and sideways, and getting spiderwebs in his hair (with baby spider attached...) he got our curtain rod mounted on the wall. With feverish excitement, we shoved the rod through the little pocket of the curtain I had made, not three hours before. We stood back to admire our work. The rod was a little crooked. Fine. We could deal with that. But it was sagging in the middle. My shoulders sagged a little too. The stripes were too bold for our kitchen, and neither of us loved what we had worked so hard on. I was pretty disappointed. Jus tried to make me feel better... As of today, the curtain is in our Whatever Room, awaiting a different fate as a pillow or something.
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