Fabric Find of the Week

I know the season has truly shifted to cooler weather when one of my boys gets their first case of the common cold for the school year. This time it was my youngest, who is only five. He's still at that age where being sick is an uncertain time.

So I try to do my best to comfort him as much as I can, just as my mom did when I was little. Our house is now stocked with cans of chicken noddle soup, saltine crackers, and bottles of gingerale. And as I sat with him as he watched a favorite movie in his soft and snugly pajamas, I got to making our tissue boxes a little more bright and happy with fabric covers.

This tissue box fabric cover craft is so easy! There are a few steps, but all are simple to do and understand. I found a great website that gives the step by step instructions along with photographs, which you can visit here. And it hardly takes any fabric--for a large box, a half yard, and if you're doing a small box like the one pictured above, a fat quarter of fabric is all you need.

For this kind of project, I think the more cheerful the fabric print, the better! I know when I'm having to reach for the tissue box all day, I'm never in the best of spirits. So this week the fabrics highlighted at the Warm Biscuit Bedding Co. aim to be upbeat. Of course, we have so many fun fabrics to choose from, so this caveat didn't narrow it down much. In the end, I went for our adorable on the fence fabric for all your little cowboys, pink polka dots fabric, and kimono girls fabric that I know you and your darling girls are sure to love. Happy sewing!