The creative dilemma

Remember this? For the last couple of weeks, I've been bouncing all over the place on what should be my first project. I know I should just start somewhere but I'm savoring the fun part, tossing around ideas and picking out fabric.

After some hefty research, I've reached a decision: curtains for the master bedroom. (This research may or may not be heavily swayed by the gorgeous fabric sample I've been glancing at every five minutes since last weekend.)

Now, crafty Katie says curtains would be a great first project because I just have to make a straight stitch. But this is coming from a person whose fourth project was an amazing life-size dinosaur.

OK, maybe not exactly life-size but completely huge and fantastic. And even though I desperately want to venture into the world of creative craftiness, I have an inkling that a straight stitch might be rather ambitious for me.

Then I found window mistreatments from the Nesting Place:

Mistreatment: (n). covering for a window that is quick, cheap and pretty. may or may not need hardware does not require sewing. a real designer's worst nightmare.

Mistreating: (v). the act of treating a window with dignity and respect without use of the following: hundreds of dollars, sewing, time, crying, divorce, child neglect...

Ahhhh, this might be more up my alley. This woman uses hot glue and upholstery tacks instead of needles and thread and doesn't always buy curtain rods. I think it's pretty cute.

While I really do want to bust out the sewing machine, it's nice to know there are all kinds of ways to be crafty.