Saturday projects for my daughter and I have been working on drapes for the hunter's/guest lodge section of the ranch house which is over the garage. They are week-end ranchers and travel about 500 miles each week-end to take care of the house and ranch chores; so Saturday is the only day we could work on drapes. With all the other chores, we did good to get four panels done each week.
They have quarter horses and raise exotics. We live about about one hour away.
This part of the house has two bedrooms, a bath and a "great-room". It is decorated with Western/Ranch
and Mr. Scott loves the old actors from the Western movies. 
We are using painter's drop cloths for the drapes and decorated each panel with ranch brands ... or other "brands" that we created. Circle 6 ... we used an old bed spring for the circle and the 6 branding iron.
This is a combination of the three, one and zero branding irons.
Just used a regular horseshoe for this brand. 
This Y in a square is a brand registered to Scott's great grandfather which we believe is Fork Creek Ranch. We cut a stencil for it. 
They have a Rockin' W branding iron, decorative only, not used for branding. This is the Ranch name. We added the S, K and J to the brand. 
A small S for Scott (husband) and J for Justin (son) K for Kathie (Mom) ... and numbers ... don't know what the numbers represent. 
We put a shallow layer of just regular house trim paint in a recycled aluminum pan and dipped the branding irons in the paint and then stamped them on the painter's drop cloth panels.
Some brands was made with a stencil. We also used black on some of the brands, just using regular craft paint.
There are six windows in the "great-room" that get a lot of West sun. 
Look up ... the ceiling is done with recycled rusty tin roofing material.
Drapes are hung with a tension rod and fit inside the windows so
they can be lowered half-way or removed when not needed for blocking
the sun. My daughter draped a large bandana over the rod for a valance. Looks really good.
This has been a fun project ... learning as we go.
She is happy with the results and that is important.
Thanks for visiting ... hope you are inspired to try painter's drop cloths for drapes.
I made some Drop Cloth Drapes last year and so very happy with them. View here.
Blessings,
Audrey Z.
Inspired:
Hope you will pay her a
visit.
She had already made a
comment on the curtains, so I got permission from her to post this email that I
received from her.
Pat saying:
Oh yes! I loved your curtains. I'm thinking of all the
transfers you could do on them. Not just branding irons. You could use
different sized round objects for a variation on a circle or bubble theme. You
could use shoe prints for a sports themed room. Track or running shoes just
across the top edge, you could use a little car and roll a wheeled pattern for
a boys room with trucks... Or! a real tire that has been rolled through paint
for a bigger effect.
The ideas are limitless!
I pinned this idea. Thank you for sharing them ! Pat
My reply:
Oh WOW Pat ... these curtains really turned
on your ‘inspiration button’ ... love
all your ideas and all sound exciting, especially the track shoes and real car
tire. What a great idea for someone into car racing.
What has 'turned-on" your creative button lately?
Linking to: Savvy Southern Style
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Funky Junk Interiors unique window treatments. 
Purging and/or re-purposing ... I took this old kinda ugly three arm brass lamp ... removed the wiring and sockets with plans to make a hanging bird-feeding lamp. I set it in a heavy resin base from another lamp to work on it. 
Used three aluminum vintage cake pans, drilled holes for drainage and lined them with a piece of wood. 
Attached them to the arms and center post. Four large feeding trays ... so inviting. Decided to leave it as a table lamp feeder instead of hanging it. 
