Crappy before and after pictures

I mentioned in my previous post that I bought valances for the whole apartment at the cost of eleven dollars.
I took some pictures today and they turned out just awful.
What's really bad is that I think some of the before pictures look better than the after.

Here is the before picture of the bathroom window. My bathroom is so small I had to stand in the bathtub to take this picture.
This blue cloud print valance was originally in Vet Tech Girl's room at my old house. I'm going to give it to Baby Girl for her apartment.









Here is the after picture. It looks better in person and at least now I can have the window up and not worry about scaring our neighbor in the apartment just across the driveway.



















The before picture of the living room.












After. Once again, they look much nicer in person.










I couldn't get decent pictures of the shower curtain because the bathroom is so tiny but anyway it's cream with a thick brown satin stitch border around the sides and bottom. It looks a lot like something from pottery barn and it was one dollar.
These are all the pictures I'm going post but you get the general idea. Since we just rent this apartment, and we have no idea how long we'll be here, I can't justify buying enough fabric to make them.
I already made that mistake when I made curtains for Baby Girl's apartment and she moved shortly after I made them.
Ouch.

A finished project

I mentioned in a previous post that I was making curtains for Baby Girl's apartment. I finished them a while back but I didn't have my camera with me the day I put up the last panels. Today I went over to her apartment and this time I brought my camera. Since Hans is out of town I asked if I could go over and hang out with her for awhile. Surprisingly, she was fine with it and I refuse to believe it had anything to do with my offering to make white chicken chile.

We had a nice afternoon and when I left, she and one of the other girls were watching and criticizing Sunday afternoon football.

The bottom panel was the missing piece of the curtain puzzle.

The other panel is on an opposite window but the TV is in front of it and I for one was not about to risk the wrath of football fans in order to get a picture. But anyway, it looks just like this one.

This is a broader picture. I also made tie backs for the bigger curtain so that during the day they can yank them open and let some sunlight in.

I came home and after my run I jumped back into my current sewing project which is the Amy Butler Messenger Bag. I'm making some changes to it so it's taking a more time than normal. And as I've mentioned before; this is a very time consuming pattern.

I decided to use some of these. So far so good.

Here's something I've been wanting to try.

This is quick fuse.

It's for transferring photos or images onto fabric.

Supposedly all you have to do is download a picture to your printer and print onto one of these sheets. You then place the picture (right side up) onto fabric and press with dry heat.

There are sooooo many different products that offer to do the same thing and I had no idea which to buy. I really don't know why this one won the lottery.

I guess it just seemed to be the easiest. It was a bit pricey in my opinion. 3 sheets of paper for 9.99. But I used a coupon.

I'll keep you posted.