Bedroom Textiles: VICTORY!

I feel like Julius Caesar (and my high school Latin teacher) would be proud of me.

The gorgeous pillow above retails at Dwell Studios for $90.  That's a 9 and a 0 next to each other.  For a throw pillow.  (To make matters worse, it was $72 last year - what the heck?)

Curse you, Dwell Studios, for your heartbreakingly beautiful fabrics and unattainable prices!

But I digress.  I've long wanted this pillow for my grey and mustard yellow bedroom, but being a total cheapskate somewhat frugal about things like throw pillows, I thought I'd check eBay and see if there was one for less money.  To my utter delight, someone in Latvia was selling a 22"x 56" piece of this fabric.  Enough to make one cushion/pillow, they said.  Or, if you're ambitious like me, two pillows with different fabric on the back.

I was determined to win.

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This, however, meant getting up at 4:30 this morning to make sure I was awake enough to not be  outbid, which I was, until the last 30 seconds, when I swooped in like a hawk and placed the highest bid.

What a rush.

My new favorite person in Latvia shipped the fabric within a few hours.  As soon as it arrives, I will hunt for coordinating fabric for the back of the pillows I plan to have my mother show me how to make.

All told, I paid less than $25 for the fabric, taxes, and shipping.  I'll do a breakdown once I buy the fabric for the back and whatever other supplies I need (like I even know what those are at this point), but I anticipate paying less than 1/4 of what it would cost me to purchase two such lovely pillows from the evil geniuses at Dwell Studios.

I love eBay.

I also recently scored a big piece of aquamarine Schumacher Chiang Mai fabric from eBay for only $40.  I can't use it for anything like pillows because it has two big grommetted holes in it, but I might mount it on canvas and hang it up somewhere.  It's so dang pretty.  I first saw this fabric on Jenny Komenda's blog, Little Green Notebook, and I've loved it ever since.  (check out her blog, she's so great and has awesome ideas)