Bedroom for Luke & SamAsher

We are moving in bit by bit - but as the days go by each room that gets attention gets looking more and more finished!  Here is a peek at the younger boy's bedroom.  I had a fiasco-of-fiascos making these window treatments.

I bought the fabric about 3 years ago at a close-out fabric sale - so I bought the whole bolt of homespun and it was just enough to make these curtains. Upon completion I decided to perk them up before hanging them with some "homemade spray starch" [3 cups warm water and 1/4 cup cornstarch mixed well] and a good steam pressing. The fiasco hit when I had a "haste makes waste" moment and put my homemade spray in a very clean & thoroughly rinsed out "Windex glass cleaner" bottle. What I hasted to do then was to NOT rinse out the mister I attached to it - which DID NOT come from a windex bottle but was from a cleaner bottle that apparently had some bleach in it but was affixed to the empty Windex bottle...oh yes...one nice squirt from my make-do bottle filled with homemade starch turned these curtains a ghastly sunflower yellow!!
After a few Indian style war hoops coming from me - I took a deep breath and realized it was only the top 13 or so inches...so that was choppped off - and some little remnants of same fabric pieced and put together to make another panel -- all of that is now hidden under the pretty valance of John Deere Patchwork - and no one will ever know but me and all my blog readers! Shhh!!! Do not tell!
Their room is filled with cute farming Tin Signs! Oh I love them!

 Their dirty clothes hampers are wicker bushel baskets lined with natural canvas liners I sewed.  I also made this canvas from using a picture from our family album of my husband with a bunch of the children on our old John Deere (circa 1980) and changing it to a sepia tone and then transferring it to the canvas with Epson Iron On Cool Peel Transfer paper.

As you can tell - they are already curling up in their room and mussing up their covers - I've been trying to teach them proper bed making techniques [almost hopeless with a boy of 12 years old?]

I showed Luke - the way to tuck sheet corners in neatly "Military style" - he was impressed - he says "Wow! Mom! How did you figure that out?" ;)