At the time, it was fashionable for all the old farmhouses to add on big giant kitchens and the wife of the family wanted one too..

I had originally wanted to make this a ruffly bed skirt.I took one of the strips of fabric and hand-sewed some big, one inch stitches in it, then I pulled the thread tight to make it ruffle up..

The thing is, when I brought this strip upstairs to hold it up to the bed and see how it would look, I quickly realized that this whole ruffle thing was going to be a little too frou frou for Kennedy.So basically half of all of those millions of strips of fabric that I’d ripped, and ironed, and sewn were totally not needed.. Oh well!You live you learn!.

I just took my strips up to the bed, got out the hot glue gun and started sticking them right on to the base fabric that I’d already put up there.. You can see that I really didn’t worry about how straight my fabric strips are.And now that the skirt is done, you’d never know!

Well, YOU know, but only cause I just told you.

I just attached each fabric strip layer with a single line of glue at the top and let the layers hang down over one another.. At the top, I finished it off with a nice wide satin ribbon..I let Kennedy do all the work and take all the credit and I just snapped some pictures while we did a little back deck crafting.

So that’s saying something!.Here’s how it goes!.

All you need is some basic tissue paper (like from the gift wrapping department), some scissors, and some kind of string or bendable wire.. To make a large pompom, use 6-10 sheets full-size sheets, to make smaller pompoms, cut the sheets in half and use 6-10 half-sheets.. Stack your sheets and fold them accordion-style, making your pleats about 1.5 inches wide..When you’re done, it will look like this:.