Comforter/Duvet

I was browsing through an ad from Joann Fabrics a month or so ago and came across the most beautiful comforter I've ever seen. I dragged Eric to several local Joann Fabrics trying to find this pattern and was elated to find that it was just as beautiful in person as it was in the ad. Beautiful? Yes. Cheap? HELL NO. Very expensive. But, worth it. Later I found clearance fabric for the backing, which was a relief because this project was already getting mighty expensive.

After pricing it all out I decided that it would be easier for me if I just made this a duvet so that I wouldn't have to get batting, etc. for it. I went to Goodwill in hopes of stumbling across a really cheap (but warm and fluffy) comforter that I could use but wasn't successful. In the end ended up using a comforter that I had stashed in the closet, which was ever more cheap than I had originally planned!

What do you think?


And here's my own design for the duvet. I sewed in velcro across the entire width of the bottom end of the duvet so I can easily take the comforter out. This is what it looks like:

Kitty "eat and sleep"

It all started when I saw something on Design*Sponge (one of my favorite blogs EVA) a while back where someone reformed an older piece of furniture and made it into little kitty heaven. This Kitty Heaven included a kitty food station on one level and a little nook where they could take a cat-nap. Ever since then I've been looking for a piece of furniture to do that same thing but it's been near impossible. Oh, and I needed it to be kind of small and inconspicuous.

Well, here's what I got!I saw this cute little wood thing at Goodwill for $1.99 and couldn't resist.

Super cute, right? I sanded the top and painted it because it was in rough shape. Then I made a little pillow and stuck 'er inside there. There's one glitch, though- the cats wouldn't go in it. So then I swung it around so the kitties wouldn't feel so crowded in there. It now looks like this:


Guess what- they still won't go in :( Not even katnip will lure them in. I'm not giving up now, though, I'm determined to figure out how to get them to live in there. It's just too dang cute to give up on!