I love to be creative…when I was helping a friend recently paint her guest bedroom, we were discussing a shop I absolutely LOVE…Simple Things at the University Shopping Center in Fort Worth. I so love to go in there and browse…see what new ideas they have and just be inspired…someday, I want my house to look just like that place! For now, it is a dream. I wish they had a website, I would post a link so you could dream and be inspired too, but they are just as their name states in the mode of “Simple Things” which means that they keep things very simple and they do not have a website. Anyways, Alisha was sharing with me that she wanted the bed to have lots of different shapes and shades of white pillows but that throw pillows were so expensive. My mind immediately got to thinking of what I could make to start her collection for the guest bed. A couple days later, I dug thru my plastic box of fabric stashed under my guest bed and here is what I made her: two throw pillows, one 16″ bolster pillow out of white silk dupioni and one 12″ square pique pillow that we may add some buttons, monogram, or other handwork to if she so desires, for now it is plain. Both had invisible zippers so that the casings could be cleaned if she needed to.
“We Can Do It Cheaper” breakdown of the cost for this project:
Both pillow forms were down fill. The square one I obtained from my big stash of pillow forms and I simply do not remember what I paid for it, but lets just assume it was $5.99 as I always try to get these things on sale. The bolster was $8.49 from Tuesday Morning. The fabric was $0.00 as I used scrap pieces leftover from previous projects. Total Cost: $14.48 before tax.