Burlap Poodle Pillow

I had an idea swirling in my head to stencil a poodle onto some burlap, stitch the burlap to a pillow front and fray the edges.



I'm still not sure how I feel about it though. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but sometimes my ideas are different in my head. Here's the details on how I did it.

I "Googled" the words 'poodle clipart' and found this image:

Source

I opened the picture in the Silhouette software and traced the clipart.



One mistake I did was selecting the vinyl color to cut this out LOL. Originally, I'm thinking "pick a color that's not your favorite because you only using the negative space". So I picked orange. BUT- I still have the positive poodle space on the ORANGE vinyl... If I picked another color, like pink or even purple, I could have used THAT for ANOTHER project. I made a mental note to think further ahead next time...

My pillow form is a 12" square, so I cut a piece of burlap slightly smaller to zig-zag stitch to the front. The poodle is about 8" tall. I mixed some textile medium into some turquoise-y paint to stencil the front.

After that dried I stitched the burlap to the front and pulled strings to fray the edges. I added some colored rhinestones (purchased for scrapbooking) to the poodle's neck like a collar.



The pillow casing itself is a 12.5" square (I like them snug on the pillow form), made from cream cotton that looks like muslin. The back is an envelope to change it out for another pillow case when I want to change my mind... Because I'm a woman and that's our perogative LOL.



And of course my calico cat DANCER had to get in on the photography. Maybe she was checking out the pillow to make sure it's not a real dog?



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Quick and Easy Cat Bed

We're having a little bit of a problem at the Stein house:

My son bought a new Beyblade arena with his birthday money, and our cat April thinks it's a bed. I'm just glad she didn't think it was a litter box HAHA!

I've seen on a couple of blogs where ladies have taken an old suitcase and turned it into a cat bed. That was my mission for this past weekend.

After a little Mother's day celebration, Greg took me to the Peddlars Mall on Shelbyville Road to look around. This one has such great vintage and retro pieces, but their prices are crazy. It's like people are NOW catching on to vintage being hip and they're charging outrageous prices. I was lucky to find this suitcase at the decent price of $9.00:

I wasn't crazy about the color (I don't have lots of this shade of blue in my house, but the inside was very clean:

So as the post title says, this is quick and easy. Grab these extra two items: a pillowcase (in my case a vintage green striped on from the 70's) and an old pillow. I keep my old pillows because you just never know when you'll need stuffing.

Put the pillowcase on the pillow and tuck the open end under the pillow. Squeeze into the suitcase and fluff it up. Here's the end result:

Now I just gotta get the cat to use it LOL :-)

Update: I got a picture of our baby cat Lily using the bed!



Here's another one where Greg caught Lily using the bed. I have it sitting in our living room and the sun filters in through a window onto the bed:



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I wish I could sleep like this...

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