The Fabric House

Lily has completely destroyed the blinds in my bedroom. I can't blame her really, all of her puppy life she lived in the country where there were no cars and no people walking by. We moved to Kingsport in June when I got a sweet job here. My bedroom faces a very busy street where there is traffic and people walking. Lily starts going bananas and barking if she sees a car backing up, children squealing  down the street (the occasional adult squealing aka my crazy neighbors who live directly across who I am pretty sure go to the neighbors down the street to get drunk and then go walking home around 11pm and stir up my dog, no, I'm not bitter...) Anyway, this is the result of all the excitement outside the window.

She's basically adjusted the blinds to her liking so she can easily lay on the bed and stick her little chin on the window sill and bark at 3am when she sees a light or anything worth barking at.

There are several problems with this:
A) People can see into my room. This leads me to getting dressed in the dark. I constantly think someone is just sitting outside my window while I'm reading at night and thinking dirty thoughts about how they can enter my room.
B) I live in my roommate's house aka she bought the house, these are her blinds and my dog has destroyed them. (I'm not that big of a beach, I plan on replacing them. Just not until I move out. What's the point in spending money on something that Lily will inevitably destroy again?)
C) Now that the blinds are adjusted to Lily's liking, she can see everything which means at 3am when I'm asleep she will see a light flash by and start barking. This makes me wake in an angry rage yelling at her to "SHUT THE FECK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The solution: I will make my own curtains!


       This morning my mom and I went into town here in Pound and stopped by the Fabric House. This place is incredible. If you ever want to step back in time and feel like you are back in the 50s stop by Pound, VA. When you walk in to the Fabric House you smell the old and the new all at once. It would be like stepping into a brand new building that is full of antiques. Although with the Fabric House it is the exact opposite. The floors are made of wood that slopes down toward the back of the store. It's a light color wood that's about an inch wide and a foot long. As I was standing there while "Sissy" cut my fabric I looked down at the floor and thought about how long it probably took to lay  those planks down. The floors creaked with every step I took. I assumed with how old the building was that the fabric inside would be vintage as well. I was wrong and the fabrics were modern but it is incredible how historic the building is.  It looked as if the store was two separate stores and they tore down some walls. On the other side there were four huge machines that my mom said are quilting machines.

The great thing about the Fabric House was the lady who (I assume) owns the store. As soon as she saw my mom she referred to her as "Sissy". "Hey Sissy! Is that your daughter?," then to me "You look just like your mom are you in visiting for the weekend?" It was so funny that she kept calling my mom Sissy. Then she started calling me Sissy. I found it very off-putting and slightly weird. We then started to talk about Pound. She asked me if I like being back in "the P-O-U-N-D" and then she referred to Kingsport as a BIG city. I always want to laugh when people from home refer to Kingsport as such. (For those of you not familiar with the area Pound has a population of  1,089 and Kingsport has <48,000) 

We purchased the material needed and I allowed my mom to use the sewing machine at her house to make the curtains. I'm sure if I had made them myself they would have turned out crooked and wrong. So far they are doing a fantastic job of keeping peeping toms out and Lily's barking down. Only the test of time will truly tell. 

                                          (Please disregard Lily's dirty crate area. She shreds things)