Envelope Pillow Covers

Hi friends! Today I'm doing to things that I don't do often. Sew. And show some pictures of my house.

My husband and I have done a LOT of house projects since we bought our house three years ago. We've torn out a 12 foot library wall, opened up a wall with a beam, replaced our kitchen, replaced all our windows and doors, painted walls, loads of trim, etc.

Now that our house is finally looking more finished I get to start decorating. I am NOT a decoratory kind of person, but I'm watched lots of HGTV and read lots of home blogs. The tricky part about decorating here is we live an hour from any kind of decorating store.

A couple of weeks ago I braved Hobby Lobby with all four of my kiddos. I bought some random lengths of fabric and decided to recover my couch pillows.

I've been wanting to recover my pillows since the day we brought the couch home, but other projects have taken priority. Can you see why I want to recover them? Aren't they lovely?

I stayed up late last night and cleaned my house. I didn't have anywhere to go this morning, so I decided to sew. I watched this video from Teal and Lime and then got to work sewing.

Several hours later and only a few seams to rip, I finished making six envelope pillow covers. Now I can wipe them out fast, like in 15 minutes, but that's after a lot of unpinning, etc.

Middle pillow from IKEA, I made the other two.

I like to sew, but I'm not a perfectionist or very patient, which makes sewing kind of hard. You can check out a few of my other projects that I've made on my "Crafty" Tab.

I'm excited that these pillow covers can come off easily to throw in the washer. After all, I've got three boys who like to wipe their noses on things and step on pillows, etc. There are a few things about boys that I don't understand...

These pillows should be pretty sturdy too. And if I ever want to replace the pillow inside, I can easily change the size of the pillow cover.

All righty...better get this mess cleaned up before my family gets home.

What about you? Have you made pillows for your home?

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

What is on your menu this week?

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