Curtain making--it's not as fun as it sounds

So yesterday, since I am on break, I decided to be productive. I know--shocking. I started out the day by making Shawn and me a quiche for breakfast. It wasn't as good as the quiche I made for Christmas, but maybe it takes practice.

After that, it was time for a workout. I did a cardio video. While doing that, Bella was getting all excited, so afterward I took her for a walk around the neighborhood. I was hoping it would tire her out for the day, but that didn't quite happen.

Then it was time to tackle a project I meant to start in the fall. When Shawn and I got all the furniture for our bedroom and the wall painted, there were only two things left I wanted to do--add art and add curtains.

Today it was time to tackle the curtains.

I hadn't been able to find any curtains back in August that I liked. I wanted some sort of a patten that used the colors from the wall but was not striped (since the wall was striped). By September, I was tired of looking.

We decided to visit a fabric store to see if they had something I liked so I could make my own. I made some curtains before when we lived in Pullman (not great) but thought that having the practice might make this easier. Luckily the store had a fabric in a pattern I liked, so we bought enough to make two curtains.

Surprisingly, it is not December, and there are still no curtains hanging from the curtain rod in our bedroom. (Okay, this is not really surprising as I bought the fabric during fall semester and I am a doctoral student. However, I do have weekends. Curtain making just never seemed to be a priority.) So yesterday, it was time to take the initiative and make it happen.

The curtains took awhile, and they certainly aren't perfect, but I can finally say they are done.

I finally learned by the very last seam how to make them look wonderful.

In total it took three hours of my time. Next time, I will probably keep looking and just buy something suitable. After the work had been done, I thought back to opportunity cost. Let's see, three hours of my time could have been used for a variety of other things. Additionally, assume my time is worth 10 bucks an hours, it cost me 30 bucks to make the curtains. That is not counting the materials. I can certainly buy curtains for about that. However, I did get them in a pattern I like, and at the length I want, so in the end, it all worked out. Check another thing off the to-do list.