My Entryway - Roomspiration Begins

It's finally here...Roomspiration begins today.

Today's theme - Entryways.

I wanted to update my entryway to have more of a Fall look using only things I already had in the house...an absolutely no-cost update.   

This was my entryway decorated for the summer.  There were actually a few other items...but I removed them before I took the photo...oops.

I started by swapping out the hydrangea flowers for a clear canister filled with all different items  - all in  fall colors.

It needed something more.  My first thought was books...but not just plain books.  Instead, I took three books and some leftover drop cloth fabric I had used when I reupholstered a chair I found on Craigslist.  I cut the drop cloths to fit each book and folded them to make book covers.  

Then I took some twine and tied the three books together.  

I like to use items in threes and in varying heights when I create a vignette.   Now it was time to change the pillow on the chair.  

First I chose a smaller pillow form that wasn't being used from another room.  I also had some green silk fabric that had been sent to me once when I ordered a free sample of fabric from Ethan Allen.  They sent me at least a 1/2 yard of this gorgeous fabric and I have been wanting to do something with it for a while.

I made this pillow almost completely no sew by using stitch witchery.  I folded the fabric over the pillow form lengthwise.  Then I folded each of the short ends over and used stitch witchery to form a clean edge.  Then I folded it in half with wrong sides together and attached with stitch witchery.  Then I turned the pillow back to the right side (it looked like a sausage casing with two open ends) 

Then using clear contact paper and my Silhouette machine, I cut out a tree stencil.

Then I painted the stencil using Martha Stewart paint and fabric medium.  I inserted an old magazine in the center of the pillow so that the paint did not go through to the other side.  The paint medium calls for one part medium to two parts paint.  I would suggest adding your paint first and then the medium.  I did it the opposite way and it was much harder to get the right consistency.

After the stencil was dry I removed the contact paper.  Then I found this trim in the perfect colors (I can't even remember why I had this trim).  I sewed it to one end of the pillow, sewing through all three layers (the trim and the two layers of pillow).  Then I put the insert into the pillow and pinned the trim to the other side and sewed it on a sewing machine while the pillow was already inserted inside. 

Here is the finished pillow...

finishing off my tour of my fall-styled entryway.

I'm headed over to Abode Love to link up my entryway. Hope you will join in the party as well and do the same.
 Can't wait to see you there.

-Judy