DIY project gone right!

even though "red rug" backwards doesent spell "success", it probably should. yesterday i was looking at my living room and decided that i wanted to take the purple out and instead focus on the green and yellow as accents. we have a huge purple shag area rug that just collects every single one of the dog's hairs and is nearly impossible to clean, and i have been more than willing to move it to the basement and replace it. so, i started online looking for a new yellow or green area rug and stumbled across this awesome DIY idea found here. i loved the simplicity of it and the open interpretation and how you can incorporate two colors in it. so, we ran to walmart, where i found not only green rugs, but red ones too!!! PERFECT! the bedroom finally gets the bedside runners that i have been searching for!!! i picked up six red rugs, nine green rugs, a spool of teal cotton yarn, a spool of brown cotton yarn and a big fatty needle. i decided to do the bedroom ones first since they were going to be smaller. it took me a lot longer than i expected, although i did a lot of unnecessary stitching. 

three rugs. $5 each from wally world.

soooo, i just stitched along all the edges of the rugs.

and it didnt matter if it was perfect, cause the imperfections sort of gave it personality.

then i stitched the rugs together, again imperfections encouraged. 

oh yeah, that spool is only $7, and it was more than enough. ive gotta think of more projects now!

and here is the final project!! :]] i love it so much!!!

and here is is in our messy bedroom.

BTW, we obviously added red as an accent color to the bedroom. i think the last time i blabbed about the bedroom it looked like this:

you can read more about that here:

...which isnt a whole lot different than it looks now, except for all the new red that adds some pizzaz.

scored those floral prints from ikea in a set of five. the other two are green and  are hanging on the living room frame wall.

fun fact: this scarf used to be my one of my favorite accessories. 

picked up this cute little treasure box at hobby lobby for $3.99. its the prefect hiding spot for my feather earrings so my cat doesnt destroy them.

so yeah, it was a complete success. now i just need to do the green one for the living room. ill be sure to post pictures when its done! 

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