The Cheap Sheets

I'm finally addressing the OTHER guest bedroom. Its had the same white walls, dated curtains and a lonely twin bed (sometimes some boxes and other unfinished projects) since we moved here in Jan 2010.

A few weeks ago I painted the walls barely light blue (Behr Rain Water) to try and make sense of the very medium blue trim. The same night I was perusing craigslist and found a sleigh-trundle twin bed that I really couldn't get my mind off of. It wasn't particularly craigslist cheap but it was perfect for the guest room that already had one twin bed in it and was a little too narrow to fit a queen as well but I still wanted to sleep more people. (breathe) I couldn't sleep I wanted it so bad, but it took some convincing to get sean on board. We picked it up on Monday (in 2 loads) and it came with 2 mattresses and a box spring. Well when we put it all together I started to question WHY we got a box spring.

Also pictured new wall color and curtains. 

So its a little bit hard to tell how ridiculously high the whole set up is WITH the box spring. The lady who sold it said her daughter didn't like it because she was too young. I think she didn't like it because it was so high she would DIE if she fell out. Now Sean says we have to keep it this way... Silly silly boy.

Because we now have 2 new beds in the guest room I was kind of on the lookout for sheets. I love eyelet lace but was hoping to not break the bank on sheets. Conveniently, TJ Max had plain white twin sheet sets on clearance for $16.00 yesterday. I got 2 sets, but they were pretty basic.

My kitchen island with a towel over it is also my ironing board. I don't iron much :)

So I got my sewing machine out and played with the decorative stitches. It took me some time to play with the tension, stitch length and anything else I could adjust... I wanted it to look like embroidery not just decorative stitches.

Once I got my stitch picked I did a decorative border in navy blue on one set and medium/light blue on the other. I think they turned out looking like very expensive sheets (even though I didn't always pay very close attention and the line on the flat sheet might be a little wavy) :)

I hope to have the whole room put together this weekend. I'm in the process of painting all the furniture bright white. I think it will be a very pretty room when its done. This is my first time ever decorating with blue!