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I'm feeling blue

I'm feeling blue.... and that's a good thing!

This past week I have been scouring thrift stores and rummage sales, looking for fabric for curtains and seat covers. I'm on a pretty tight budget.  I don't necessarily have a set amount, but let's just say that with 2 kids in braces, one heading to college in the fall, one attending private school, and homeschool curriculum to buy for the other two, the less I spend, the better.  ;)

I was originally hoping to go with more of a forest green color scheme and an outdoorsy theme, but after finding some awesome deals, I've decided to re-do the camper in BLUE.

My first find of the week was a pair of lovely light blue brocade drapes.
I have always loved brocade. I think that it has such an elegant, classic look, and so when my husband pointed out these beautiful brocade drapes at Goodwill - I had to have them!

They are nice and clean, and made of a very heavy weight fabric and....

They are HUGE!!! 

(There are two panels and each is 3 1/2 yards long!)

I was thinking I could either use them to cover the seat cushions of the dinette, 

or make light blocking curtains for both sides of the camper.

The best part...they were only $14 for the pair!

I was already so tickled with that great deal, 

but then I just happened to stop by a rummage sale 

and WAY in the back of the garage I spied these treasures....

A large roll of light blue upholstery fabric (for $6!)

AND 2 bags of ivory curtains with light blue trim!

(There are 10 panels - and they were $1 a piece!)

I'm thinking they will make really nice curtains for the end bunks.   :)

Unfortunately, I have never been very talented at interior decorating, and so I'm really hoping that the blue brocade and the stripey blue upholstery fabric are going to be a good match. (?)

I think they will be.

Now I just need to figure out how to add some accent colors, 
and since I've only spent $30 so far, my budget is looking pretty good!  :)

BEFORE

Well, we've started to clean her up, so I thought I'd get some pictures
so we can hopefully compare BEFORE and AFTER shots
to see how much progress we've made.

This was the day we bought our (new-to-us) camper.
It had been sitting in the woods for quite awhile and was pretty dirty, but overall in good shape.

Then we got it home and opened it up to take a good look.

We found quite a bit of things that needed repairs: 

 tears in the canvas and screens, 

a small crack in the roof, 

a cracked vent cover, 

mildew on the canvas, 

a small rip in the flooring, 

broken lights,  

no cover on the water connector, 

a missing roller on the bed slide out, 

rusty propane tanks, 

no curtains, 

a missing mattress on one end and a FILTHY one on the other.... 

We've got our work cut out for us!

Still.....it has potential.   

Our diamond in the rough.  :)

The beginning.....

So after 30+ years of tent camping - my wish finally came true!

We are now the owners of a pop-up, or PUP as they are apparently called on the pop-up camper forums -
Who even knew there was such a thing...not me! - LOL

It's a bit of a 'fixer-upper,' (a 1993 Jayco,) but with a little TLC we'll have her sea-worthy  woods-worthy
in no time.