Digging for Clams

Remember when you were a kid and you'd roll up your jeans because you thought it looked cool?  (Not gonna lie, I'm still a notorious jean-roller-upper...) And then gramps would come up and say something like, "What are you doing?  Digging for clams?"  Well that's all I could think about while looking at the new curtains we just hung.

Um, yeah... just a bit on the short side, right?  So how'd that happen?  Well, lets start at the beginning... somebody cue up a Wayne & Garth dream sequence for me.

So I was hanging out at the Max with my friends, Zack Morris and Kelly Kapowski... oh wait, wrong dream sequence...  I was shopping at the TJ Maxx when I stumbled upon some teal blue curtain panels that were, wait for it, 9.99 a piece.  So I was all like, "sweet, these will look perfect in my living room when I have my awesome charcoal couch and gray walls and we'll live happily ever after."  The end.  Not really... but look how cute they are with my new pillow.

By the way, I think this pillow is now my inspiration for everything.

So now we needed some hardware to put these babies up and there we have our problem.
The guys who lived here before us had kindly (didn't patch ANYTHING) left the holes in the wall where they had their curtain hardware so my thought is GREAT - no drilling!

Hardware all from Lowes.  Pay no attention to the other curtains in this pic.  Those curtains are too long and this is the story of the too short curtains.  I'm starting to feel like Goldilocks here.

So we put everything up with the already established holes - I never even thought about measuring the curtains because, yeah, I'm awesome like that... ding ding ding, we have high water curtains.

And that's how I learned that just because there's a hole there, it doesn't mean you should stick something in it.  Sorry... I can never resist a "That's What She Said" joke.  And also, that's a lie.  The first time I learned that lesson was back in elementary school when I was out playing with the neighbor kids and we found a hole in the ground with a bunch of bees flying in and out.  Of course the best idea ever is to put a stick in the hole right?  Well, not if there are about a hundred bees that were apparently out & about doing their whole bee thing and then needed to get back into said hole.

So here's what I decided to do with the curtains, it's a very technical and complicated solution, prepare yourselves.  I took the hem out.  Don't judge.  Still not perfect but at least slightly better.  However, now I have an unfinished curtain bottom.  So now I'm thinking about adding a contrasting panel at the bottom.  Any suggestions?  White?  Gray?  Different shade of blue?  Any ideas out there?

Left curtain still short, right curtain less short.

By the way, since I still haven't found my awesome charcoal couch that I'm going to live happily ever after with, we've still got the red one.  And you know what that means?  Yes, my living room is currently red, white and blue.  Boom.  Patriotic.

Also, I'm still on the fabric hunt for my thrift chair.  I thought I found something awesome but it totally doesn't match... way too green.

So now I'm thinking that gray and white chevron print I found a few days back is the frontrunner.  Trying to match blues is giving me the blues.

Also, here's a little Olive love for the night... just because.

Guess we'll be sleeping on the couch.