A funny thing happened...

It all started with the cat.  You know, the cat that we thought was a girl, turned out to be a boy?  The one that my in-laws accidentally (suuuuure) left outside overnight and completely destroyed the weather-stripping around their door?  Yep. That one.

This weather-stripping-destroying-animal was the reason my MIL and I found ourselves at Lowe's yesterday, after a quick trip to Michaels to get supplies for the family room CORNICES!! Woooohooo!!!

And a funny thing happened as we were walking down the curtain aisle.  We saw my fabric!!! It was being used as an example for window treatments- both curtains AND cornices!! Hoooooly C! This totally reaffirmed my confidence in choosing the right fabric. Obviously some high end designer person also thought it would look good on windows!!!

Check it out:

From the Lowe's Display

Curtain with Red trim

The back of the display (giving ideas)

What a cornice would look like.  Mine will not have the red curtain, and will have red trim instead of gold.

The first one has been made! Well sort of...

Fabric and matching thread

After our fun field trip, we put together the first one with some foam board. It's actually disgustingly easy, even for someone like me who is def craft-challenged.  I managed not to cut off my finger with an exacto knife, and cut a relatively straight line... the worst part was actually just measuring everything tediously.  After cutting all the foam board, we stuck it together with T pins, and then hot glued that mother together.  Next step is to cover the whole thing with batting, and then pin the fabric down and voila!! Dunzo.

Other noteworthy house updates from this weekend:
-Bought and (Joey) installed new locks on all doors.  Desparately needed. Don't have pics, sorry.
-Realized we need to paint our front door BAD.
-Bought a pretty mirror to hang in the dining room.
-Framed our new artwork we purchased at Disney. (It's beachy! It's bathroomy! Pics to come!)
-Acquired some knick knacks for the family room.
-Got some "pet stairs" for the dogs to use to get onto the bed instead of their current plastic-crate-stepstool.  Which would be great if they werent both terrified of it...

Other updates:
-Joey's birthday is tomorrow!

That is all.

~SG