New Bedding

So, Jeremy decided we needed a king size bed in our room... I was sure it would not fit.  I was wrong.  So, I went shopping for new bedding.  I am in love with gray and yellow right now.  I saw a set that I L.O.V.E.D., but it was 300 dollars (of course it's on sale for 200 today lol)... :(  Then, I found something similar... a duvet cover and shams for 41 bucks... I didn't have a duvet... but that was only 50 dollars from amazon, so for 1/3 of the cost I got a similar look (I actually like it better).  So, now I had the gray bedding, I needed to add the yellow.  I was initially going to make pillows out of an old yellow sheet I had (Jeremy bought them... at that time I thought he was crazy, it felt like we were going to bed on the yellow brick road!), then I was at the DI and found some lovely yellow burlap.  I've seen lots of cute pillows around blogland and have been anxious to make some of my own.  I took a cheap pillow, cut it in half to make 2 throw pillows. 

I had to hand ruffle the burlap as the thread kept breaking when I tried the machine method.  It was totally worth a bit of work.  I really love the shabbiness of the burlap.

Next, I made a big yellow burlap pillow with a monogram.  I cut the monogram out of dollar store shelf liner/contact paper with my silhouette, stuck it to the burlap and used gray acrylic paint... Easy peasy and I LOVE it!

Finally I found this adorable bow pillow tut over at Say Yes to Hoboken and fashioned some gray bow pillows.

I really like how it all came together... Whatchu think???

I so LOVE the monogrammed one... I want to make some more!!!  Now for the rest of the room... Is it too depressing to paint the whole thing gray?