No more bird poop on these

Another project undertaken over the last stretch was to recover some of our couch pillows.  I used to have a nice lovely arrangement of pillows on the couch and then came kids.  Two little girls (ours and my friend’s daughter who watches Mazie while I’m working) have successfully transformed the once beautiful pillows into some weird science experiment that I’m sure have made all of my guests’ stomachs turn as we suggest they sit on the couch.

So I’ve decided in general our house needs a bit of freshening up but I didn’t want to spend any money.  So I had this old cashmere sweater that had seen better days and turned that into a pillow cover.  I’ve also had excessive amounts of this rather bland beige linen and I’m struggling to find uses for it.  Truthfully, I don’t really like this fabric, but I had lots of it and it’s clean, and it’s better than the ones before.  I kid you not, I think one of them had some residual bird poop on it from when the girls dragged it outside with them and then in a freak incident it was pooped on.  No matter how much you clean I don’t think all that stuff comes off.

So here they are.

I now hate the two pillows from the original arrangement that were not nasty and disgusting.  They just don’t work with these so I’ll have to find something else in my stash to recover them, but that’s for another day.

My bedroom is the next item on the list.  I think once you have kids your room is always the last to get any attention.  Still have the same comforter from before Robbie and I moved in together.  It was mine immediately following college and was the nicer of the two options we had — mine from post college or his from college.  His swiftly went into the trash.  I couldn’t even donate it.

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