Piping Ain't Easy

Ok, I'm cracking up over my blog title today, blame it taking care of a newborn and getting little sleep last night. Anyways I love how  tweaking a song title, works for a blog title :) Today I'm finishing up a sewing project that's taking a little longer than expected. Remember my beloved { to me } Key West print lumbar pillow covers I made for our armless chairs in our living room? If not here's a reminder. I'm still loving the print, just wanted to add a twist.

So I've been sewing new pillows with left over fabric I have and adding an unexpected pop of color to this already colorful print. Yup, I'm adding turquoise green piping to the pillows!

The turquoise green piping looks works well with the new fabric I bought for living room. I'm loving how the piping is looking so far and I'm sewing invisible zippers to, so its requiring a whole bunch of extra work. Piping ain't easy, lol. Hopefully I'll be a piping pillow master by pillow # 2 if so, I'm so adding piping to the cushion I'm making for our outdoor dining room bench.

Hopefully I'll have these pillows along with the new ones I just finished up, can't wait to share the amazing { to us } fabric I just bought and turned into pillows.

What do you think so far of the color combination?

A Household Must

Recently we installed a Carbon Monoxide Detector in our home, and just got around to blogging about it now. I think Smoke Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Detectors are a MUST in every home. In our small rancher we have five smoke detectors { 4 inside and 1 in our garage } Yet we didn't have a Carbon Monoxide Detector until recently, because it was on our 'To Do List'

It was put on our done list asap, when California passed a law requiring Carbon Monoxide Detectors in home and rentals. We bought a First Alert Carbon Monoxide Detector from Lowes for $ 17.99 and included batteries and is good for seven years.

We installed the Detector in our hallway next to our Thermostat. It took Mr. CLH less then three minutes to install it, and I like how easy the batteries are to locate and replace.

If you haven't installed a detector remember this is a household MUST { they even sale plug-in detectors } because they call Carbon Monoxide the silent killers, meaning many people die in their sleep from the poisoning or don't recognize the symptoms of being poisoned before its to late. You can read more about Carbon Monoxide here

Do you have a Carbon Monoxide Alarm in your home?