Peek-a-boo!

The real reason I make curtains for my house: so my kids can play peek-a-boo. You always knew it, right?

Sophia, peeking out from my new curtains

These are the same curtains I was working on in December, right after Doug installed our new sliding door. Well, I was getting tired of them looking like this:

Using blind cords to hold my curtains back: not so great. And the bottoms of the curtains weren't hemmed...oh man, I could go on for a while on the drawbacks of this situation. So I got some new curtain rods from IKEA (super cheap, and I could get the curtains very close to the ceiling - important with this dropped ceiling here).

Then Doug sprouted a wild hair and just decided to put up the new hardware. What?!? I was excited and so I headed down to the sewing machine and just slammed out the curtains for the side windows, as well as finishing the ones already hanging.

Hemmed and everything. Ha! Doug was a little impressed, I must say. There are still a few things to do here:

• Finish trim around new door
• Replace flooring (the tile doesn't go all the way to the door...and I wanted to replace it anyway
• Paint the alcove
• Raise the curtains just a titch so they hang just above the door

No big whoop, right? Except that I have to wait for Doug to get excited about installing trim...that could be awhile. S'okay - not like I don't have anything else to do!