a new use for a shrunken sweater

really i prefer to think that i grew and that's why the sweater doesn't fit. however, a more likely scenario is that my stellar laundering skills shrank this grey scallop-knit sweater. i've been working on downsizing my STUFF so that i have less things to move to philly, which means that stuff i no longer wear or use must be sold to a consignment store, donated, refashioned, or tossed. this was on its way to being tossed.until monday morning, when instead of helping mom and dad pack the car for the trip back to ct for the week, i decided that my bed lacked throw pillows and that i needed one in a neutral color to go with the new vintage white bedspread (is that an oxymoron?) that i got for my bed for philly! grey is neutral! so, i took a cheapy ikea pillow that was too big for how little stuffing it had (and thus it was super flat and lumpy) and sewed the pillow shut down the middle. then, i sewed the sweater shut across the armpits and zigzag-stitched right next to that to prevent fraying. along the bottom ribbing of the sweater i sewed an invisible grey zipper leftover from one of my numerous ambitious sewing projects that never got started (since my list of MUST SEW items is longer than my list of completed to-do items)! i stuffed the newly poofy ikea pillow into my new sweater pillowcase, and voila, one pretty scalloped throw pillow for the bed! it's still a little lumpy. mom claims that after some tossing around, it'll be flatter... we'll see about that. ikea pillows suck. never buy pillows from ikea unless they're of the memory foam kind! note: this is not my new old white bedspread. i'm saving it for philly. oh, and did i mention that i painted this bedframe from ikea? i decided i NEEDED a bedframe and it came in natural untreated pine. however, i decided it should be white. HAD to be white. so now it's white. add that to my list of random apt crafts and completed to-do items!

this weekend, for 4th of july, i baked blueberry muffins with fresh blueberries! i doubled the recipe, and we probably had 40 or so muffins! i used minimal butter and sugar since mom and dad are freaky health nuts. bunks benefited from many blueberry treats! no worries, i didn't spill any "soft scrub" into the muffins. mom was cleaning my stovetop. apparently i'm a "filthy filthy girl," in mom's own words! *blush*