The LIST

  I am a list maker. I come by it naturally....both my parents. But over the last 14 months, I have been learning how to not get much done on my list. Everyone "knows" how much time and energy and attention children are but I'd still like to get something crossed off my list daily. I now have modified how I make my list. My list BC (before child) would have said "get new duvet cover and pillows". Now, it is broken down into small tasks that I might be able to manage and eventually get crossed off.  Hey, I really do like to cross things off the list.

 The list now reads-
Go to Joann's
Find coupons
Find material
Buy pillows
Buy pillow forms
Unpick pillows when you realized they aren't exactly what you want
Go to another fabric store
Buy more material because you decide to make pillows reversible
Buy buttons
Buy thread
Put on new sheets
Buy mattress topper for bed
Have Bart sew all my ideas
Go back to fabric store
Buy Bart new scissors-since he is the tailor
Take old stuff to the DI
Find new pillows that I bought 2 years ago
Take pictures of bed
Blog
Tell Bart how grateful I am that he sews

 

I bought the square European shams from JCP, but then decided to unpick them and have Bart sew different material on the back, so that they could be reversible and I could have different looks to the bed.

 Moral of the story: It would have been cheaper and easier to buy a duvet and pillows, but I couldn't find anything I liked and so I am in debt to Bart for helping me make a duvet and pillows that I love!