Home Improvement, "Caravan Style"

I took a day off from sorting family mementos and organizing things here at my mothers little home. Deciding I would play with fabric all day, found some of my fabric stash in my suitcase that was perfect for one part of the room.  Mother lives in a trailer, but in Australia it is called a caravan, which sounds a lot better to me. Who wants to say they live in a "trailer"?

The first thing I made was a no-sew curtain and valance, using office clips and clothespins I found around here.  I will be trying to disguise them all with fabric.

The window sill ruffle is made with needle and thread by hand, as is everything else.  I take good short cuts by using the selvedge of the fabric at the hem end.

The matching lawn chairs, four of them, were brand new, still in the bag. I spent one evening making a pillow to fill in the back, for better comfort.  I plan to add more of those torn muslin roses..

These place mats are supposed to look like daisies and were very much needed for hot plates of food.  I did not have a pattern so I guessed.

One lone yellow cup and a vase of potato vines seem to match the yellow of the fabric.

Have a look at the little bird on a swing.  I could not get it to balance on the stick facing forward so I had to put it sideways, which makes it a different sort of bird,  Mother had a collection of brass cats that sit on the sill. 
The tablecloth has a wide white muslin ruffle.

We enjoy the clear plastic over the table cloth.


A neighbor had pity on me and lent me her old sewing machine, so I might be able to fix up the rest of the caravan a little faster.<!--

In my bag I had packed some of those led tea-lights, so I used them to make a bigger candle by sewing containers, stuffing them with fiberfill, and nestling the led-light in the top.

Above, you see what the led-lights look like in the dark, inside those white muslin bags. They have a more impressive glow than the camera reveals.

This is what the battery tea light looks like sitting in the bottom of the muslin cylinder, without the filling, in day light. The tea lights costs a dollar for a package of one or two, at Dollar Tree. I enjoy putting them in clear glass goblets or crystal jars in my china cabinet.

whimsical teacups on the cup hooks.

 made with scraps of the daisy fabric

I was able to get closer to the rainbow lorikeet today because he was interested in a piece of food on the ground.

Mother got him to stay awhile by talking to him while I took pictures.