My kitchen now has curtains!

So today I decided to do a few things around the house.  I have been wanting a new couch for a while.  Evan and I have picked out what couch we want, but as always things keep coming up that we need to pay for so the couch keeps getting put off.  A couple years ago I bought a slipcover for our couch, but Evan is so staunchly against slipcovers that it got taken off and disappeared to somewhere in the garage.  On a whim, I pulled it out of hiding, washed it, and then stuck it on the couch trying to get it as tight as I could.  It looks OK, but not great, and I'm sure Evan will come home and immediately pull it out of the couch, but it's kinda fun for now.  I then took an old sheet from my fabric stash and recovered a rocking wingback type chair that used to be my grandmother's.  Like the couch, it looks OK and it'll do us until we can buy some new furniture.

The thing I am most proud of from today is that I made some curtains for my two kitchen windows from an old tablecloth.  We never have put up any curtains in the kitchen partially because they are really big oddly sized windows and partially because we've just been lazy and haven't wanted to spend the money on hardware to hang them.   I had a cute flowered table cloth I had bought at Target last year I think that was pretty big and fit our old kitchen table.  Obviously when we switched tables the tablecloth was hidden away in a closet.  I figured out today that it I cut the fabric in thirds I would have three panels perfect for two long ones on the big window by the table and a little runner curtain (I guess it's called a valance) for the window above the sink.  It only took me about 30 minutes from start to finish for me to cut it into thirds, hem the cut sides, and make little pockets at the top to encase the curtain rod.  It was super easy and they look great!  The only problem is that I didn't have any curtain rods to hang them on!  I scoured the house and garage trying to quickly work something out so that I could just see what they looked like on the wall.  Finally I found some hardware for cabinet child lock things and some twine, so I screwed the hardware into the wall and strung the curtains on the string tied to the hardware.  It's not a permanent fix, but it works for now.  OK so here's a peek (excuse the messiness of the kitchen -- Ry and I had just finished dinner and I hadn't cleaned up yet)

Oh and as an added bonus you can kind of see the skate ramp through the window haha!