Simple, Clean Curtains

The dining room painting is done!  All the furniture is back to where it belongs, everything is clean, and on Friday I sewed up the little curtains I had been envisioning. 

The white fabric in last week's update picture was just muslin, and I cut it into long rectangles and hemmed the edges.  I was excited to find these gold-colored curtain rods left by previous home-owners in the "attic"!  My only thought is that the blinds are a bit of an eye-sore, besides being certain dust-collectors.  We hardly ever close the blinds in this room, so I may just take them down if I can figure out how to do it.  The blind on the window to the left in the picture above has been helpful in blocking the afternoon sun when we've had dinner company on Sundays sometimes, so I should probably leave that one up.

On another note, John and I were given a little flip calendar filled with love quotes as a wedding gift, and I usually read the day's quote to him before bed.  I thought I might share last night's exchange because it brought a smile to my face, anyway.

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to the big differences that we often cannot foresee."  (Marian Wright Edelman)

True enough, right?  Well, John saw it from a different perspective.  "Differences adding up?  Must be an English major!"  :-)