Stamped Inset Covers

• Dress up plain sheers with stamps and then use them to cover interior doors. If you have interior doors with glass insets or windows, this idea will give you privacy and some style. First, lay a towel or a couple of towels on your kitchen table. Then one at a time lay down your sheer right side up. With a leaf motif rubber stamp and some ink, stamp the sheers with a leaf imprint. It's a good idea to give your stamp some test tries on a paper plate. If you are nervous about free-stamping on to your sheers, stamp some leaves on paper and then cut them out. Place the paper leaves on your sheers and arrange them where you'd like them to be. Then carefully remove the paper leaves and come behind them with your stamp. The key is stamp straight up and down, not moving side to side. Do both or as many sheers as you need. Then use tension rods to mount the sheers into the windows of your interior doors. If a stamp motif doesn't go with your room's theme or the flow of your home, choose something else. Homes with a nautical flair might look wonderful with seashell or sailboat stamps. Homes with more rustic appeal could use horses or wheat stamps.
  
  

Decorative Shower Curtains

• It's not always easy to find just the right shower curtain for your bathroom or guest bathroom. Decorating on a dime may also be a factor when shopping for a nice curtain. Save yourself some time and money and make your own decorative shower curtain.
  
  Start with a pair of sheers and several yards of pom-pom fringe. You'll need enough fringe to go along the hem and sides of the shower curtain. Lay the curtains flat on a work table or kitchen table. Use your hot glue gun and lay about 2 inches of hot glue on to the left side of the shower curtain. Attach the pom-pom fringe to the glue, poms facing out. Keep going until you've come to the end of the row, working a little at a time. Cut the pom-pom fringe. Then do the right side of the shower curtain the same way. Finally, attach the pom-pom fringe to the bottom of the shower curtain. At either end of the curtain, leave an extra 2 inches of fringe. You'll cover the ends of the curtain by gluing the excess to the back of the curtain. This should hide the seams and make your pom-pom decoration look finished. Slide the curtains on to a rod and you're done.
  
  If you need to, combine two window sheers together to make one large one before you get started. Just use hot glue to bind the two together.