skinflint
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|  Subject: Recycling attempt!!!  Sat 26 May 2007, 7:55 pm | |
| Well....DH has been complaining that when daylight starts to break around 5am it wakes him up leaking through the bedroom window around the timber blind! He asked me to put the curtains back up....but I donated them to a thrift store a few years ago when we bought the blind  They'd been originally here when we'd bought the house and I'd already altered them to split in the middle (used to be one curtain which opened to one side).
I've been pricing them the last week and the cheaper ones are very lightweight and won't make much difference at all. Then I remembered I have an old cream coloured blanket which I was going to donate...I don't much like the material as a blanket(throw) but then I thought to myself....hey....it's pretty heavy....I wonder if I could use it to make curtains for our bedroom.....wish me luck! 
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Donna
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| | Subject: Re: Recycling attempt!!! Sat 26 May 2007, 8:36 pm | |
| | Let us know skin,,,sounds creative. |
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Vicki
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| | Subject: Re: Recycling attempt!!! Sat 26 May 2007, 9:02 pm | |
| Oh Skin, you are so creative. Can't wait to here how they turn out! GOOD LUCK!!
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Dancing Feather
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| | Subject: Re: Recycling attempt!!! Sun 27 May 2007, 6:21 am | |
| | Good for you skin. My mom always used sheets to make curtains so why not try using a blanket? Let us know how they come out. |
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gayla50
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| | Subject: Re: Recycling attempt!!! Sun 27 May 2007, 11:46 am | |
| I have the prettiest curtains in my Bed room .. they are twins a yard sale find and easy to take care of I take them down wash them then hang them for right back up they dry hanging .. I have them al over in the house except on the kitchen windows those have wood blinds .
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kim
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| | Subject: Re: Recycling attempt!!! Sun 27 May 2007, 7:16 pm | |
| | I have done the balnket window covering thing as well! It works well as blankets are much heavier! Good luck! |
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