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hi friends!
i will be out the rest of this week. we are flying to tennessee to spend some time with family and friends, and will be sneaking in few days at the beach in florida (really hoping that the worst of the tropical storm will be over when we get there!) and visiting more family in alabama.



i will be checking my email at least once a day, so if you have questions or would like to set up a phone consultation, please feel free to reach me at: autumnclemons@yahoo.com

deciding on pillows....

happy monday!
i am spending today packing to go out of town. isn't it funny no matter how early you start packing and getting things ready to go on a vacation, it seems that the last few hours are always spent scrambling around, packing + trying to remember everything you will need, asking neighbors to wheel your trash can out to the curb, trying to find pet-sitters, going to the post office to hold your mail, and making sure there is nothing in the fridge that is going to be too *scary when you return.
phew.
wish me luck!

i finally got around to tea-staining my holli zollinger fabric.
i had holli customize her "diamond circles" fabric to orange for grady's room. when the fabric arrived, it was a tiny bit "brighter" than i wanted, so i decided to tea stain it.
fast forward a few months...i finally got around to doing it!
it was actually a very easy process:

1. bring water to a boil.
i just filled up my largest pot.

2. put in your tea.
i used a generic iced tea bags, and put in one bag for every 2 cups of water. that might have been a little much, but i wanted fast results!


3. wait a few minutes for the tea to steep, then remove the bags, and put your fabric in.


4. let it sit in the tea water for **desired amount of time, then remove.
 i wanted to do several test strips before i soaked the entire piece of fabric, so while my water was boiling, i cut about 10 strips of fabric. i put all of the strips in at once, and then every 2 minutes, i took one out, and set it out to dry on some foil.
here are the results:
**here is a picture of the different strips and the time that each one was in the tea water:
(original fabric, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, 6 minutes)

5.wash the fabric.
i washed my fabric on the light soil cycle on my washing machine, and took it out to air-dry.

i was pleased with the results. i got exactly what i wanted--a slightly less vivid
i sent the tea stained fabric off to my seamstress, and will have the pillow back in the next few days.