You know how I hang out on Etsy? I admire the beautiful shops with the gorgeous pillows. A pillow is a great palette on which to experiment with all kinds of artistic stitchery.
I’d share one here, but don’t want to imply that I think pillows are superfluous. (I featured a number of pillows in a treasury on Tuesday.)
Pillows ARE practical. We need them to sleep or cozy up on the couch.
And the pillows I see on Etsy or in lovely home magazines ARE pretty.
But in my house, the “throw” pillows are usually “thrown”. If you have boys, you know that any object can become a projectile. See that lovely cube? Even THAT has been a projectile! Sigh….
In my opinion, pillows are a pain. I made these yellow pillows with a lovely brushed yellow home decorating fabric that matches my yellow walls perfectly. I added a piping and throw them into the wash whenever I think too long about how much they sit on the floor. They have pen marks and, probably, drool marks. Every day I pick them off the floor and place them neatly into the corner.
Whenever you have guests at the house, you have to hide them because they simply take up too much space!
So the throw pillow: necessary evil? beautiful room accent? pain in the butt? projectile? work of art?
LOL. I love the the idea of lots of accent pillows on the bed too but then I think about how every night we’d have to take them all off, then every morning put them back on. I feel like after a few days they’d just end up sitting on the floor and looking messy. And probably wind up being a nice comfy nest for the dog to sleep on. But I still want them- maybe it’s social programming.
I love throw pillows too. I have quite a few. So far Aedyn hasn’t thrown them. lol Soon. Then they will be moved. I have some that my grandmother needlepointed years ago. My mother kept them in the closet to keep them safe also. I brought them out, what is the purpose of having them if you are not going to display them. I will say the pillows on my bed wind up all over the floor at night and in the morning it is a pain to gather them up. Not many people put pillows behind their back anymore, but since I’m short I always have some sort of pillow. Thing is I love all the ones in the magazines, but I don’t want to pay 75 or up for a pillow that might wind up on the floor.
sigh…. and if your boys have grown into men, they may not throw them anymore (at least not when you’re in the room… well, not very often) but you have to rearrange the pillows when they leave the room because men do not pay attention to how you had them perfectly positioned on the couch before they destroyed said arrangement.
If only I had a dollar for each time I’ve picked up our pillows and placed them back on the sofa…
I have four boys and yes…they NEVER are where I left them. But without them, I think my furniture looks naked! So I have an unconscious habit of constantly rearranging them…hubby just shakes his head because I don’t even realize I am doing it!