Craft Journal: Bedroom

I have slowly over the last year been pulling elements together for my bed room. I found this super cute bed spread at K-mart for $30. It came with the spread, 2 shams, and a little accent pillow. The soft turquoise blanket goes under the spread,$30 at Wal-Mart. I went to the cloth store and bought 4 yards of cute cloth that I thought would compliment my bed spread. The old cute cloth ladies usually have the measurements for queen, king, twin, etc. I used an old top sheet that I no longer use and cut it to the size of the box spring. I measured the amount of cloth for the dust ruffle by starting at the top of the box spring and going to the floor. I didn't want it to rub on the floor so I did an inch or two above the floor, 15 in. Cut the cloth accordingly and sewed it to my old sheet. Put the old sheet on the box spring and the dust ruffle hangs just perfect off the side. My body pillow did not coordinate with my bed, so I covered it with the remainder of the dust ruffle cloth. No Zipper, just sew up the side, because I still can't do zippers. I made a little accent pillow out of an old living room pillow and 2 more coordinating rectangles of cloth(the stores do sell just little rectangles) and tied a bow with the dust ruffle cloth. I made simple curtains out of the dust ruffle cloth and folded two strips of cloth and sewed them to the top of the strips of the dust ruffle cloth. SO EASY!!! The head board is made out old fence planks from my in laws house. I sanded, painted the flower, sanded again, and in the holes that once held the planks to the fence with a nail, I tied some strong wire together to keep the planks from separating. I plan on hanging this art project behind my bed as a head board. Cost $40 for the cloth. Comment you questions. ENJOY!