Joining the Mistreatment Club...

We interrupt the current blog hiatus to inform you of my new membership status: the "Mistreatment Club". What is a mistreatment you ask? The Nester explains in her own words...

Mistreatment: (n). covering for a window that is quick, cheap and pretty. may or may not need hardware does not require sewing. a real designer's worst nightmare.

Mistreating: (v). the act of treating a window with dignity and respect without use of the following: hundreds of dollars, sewing, time, crying, divorce, child neglect...

Unfortunately, I can't say this entire window treatment is a mistreatment but at least half of it is. So, I'm pretending to be a full fledged member of this club even though this probably only constitutes part time status. I guess the Nester will have to decide.

The cast of characters:

-Two wooden plates from Hobby Lobby, 5/8 dowel rod, one Handy Manny (um, I mean hubby), a big power drill and some fancy drill bit that hubby just HAD to have to make this work
-10 perfectly fancy drawer pulls from Hobby Lobby (on sale 50% off)

-left over pink paint, a strong arm to push in the drawer pulls, a little Sumo glue to fix the drawer pulls that Handy Manny broke while using his strong arm and TAAADAAAAHHHH!!!!

-10 mistreated ties (cut, folded, ironed and ends snipped after they were tied...why sew something that is going to be on the ceiling?)
-2 of my FAVORITE flat sheets from PB Kids (pretty and pink with a touch of Asian inspiration--the girls will share a room), the girliest fringe I could find, and a friend named Stacey who loves to sew

**This is the part where I become a part time MC member...they are for the girls room and needed to be lined with blackout. If you are going to line them you might as well make them beautiful, right?**
-The window before (with a crazy haired, blue paci sporting baby girl and an ugly ladder because I didn't want to ask Handy Manny to move it for a photo op--by this point he was OVER my mistreatment)
-The finished product. Isn't it a great feeling when something in your mind becomes a reality? They are EXACTLY what I envisioned. I double knotted the ties around the dowel rod, hooked the drapery hooks into the tie and cut the ends of the ties into a "v". Don't they look precious with the crystal chandelier?

I can't wait to finish this room for my girls. Some day, I'm sure they will want a room of purple and yellow fluorescent stripes but for now they are going to have the prettiest little girl room I can dream (on a budget, of course). When I'm finished, I hope they love it as much as their Mommy.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my mistreatment and remember...

It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful!