Sometimes you need an extra large photo. Even though it’s my pet peeve when blogs use photos so big you have to scroll to see the whole thing. Sorry to be annoying. After 15 years of wifeing, shopping, moming, and decorating I finally figured something out.
Duh, pillowcovers.
I’ve told you before that I’m mildly obsessed with pillows. They are my favorite accessory. Pillows and lamps. But pillows are the the easiest way to give a room a fresh look. Pictured here on my sofa is the downstairs team looking all fluffy. And all but one pillow here is a pillow cover. So now, instead of buying all new pillows, stuffing and all, I just look for pillow covers. I’m a feather pillow insert snob because of their obedience to take any shape and ability to be washed and the nice thing is that you can cram just about any feather pillow into a pillow cover and it looks great.
And because I know you have inquiring minds left to right…
- back row: home goods {x 3}, Blessings Unlimited
- middle row: ikea {that I mistreated}, Target {from years ago}, This Little Home, Blessings Unlimited
- front row: The Utilitarian Franchise, Z Gallerie {old as the hills}
Over the past few years, I’ve purchased some pillows with inserts and ripped nice feather inserts out of old pillows that didn’t have open and close pillow covers. My goal was to have a nice stash of different sized feather pillow inserts. Now, when I see a pillow cover I like, I know I have an insert that will work with it.
And because DaySpring and Blessings Unlimited are sponsoring this fine post, they are giving away a whole slew of their pillow covers. What’s Blessings Unlimited? Oh, the BU/DaySpring people are probably cringing right now knowing that I’m going to try to make some weird analogy. Ok, so BU {Blessings Unlimited} and DaySpring are like sisters. DaySpring is like the older sister {I think} because they were first and BU is like the younger sister who is just as cool {or at least almost as cool because we all know that the older sister is always the coolest} but instead of being all over the internet, comes to your house. Neither DaySpring or Blessings wear braces, have pimples or bad hair. To make a long story longer, Blessings Unlimited is like Pampered Chef only with cute Jesusy housey things and stuff for your family instead of stuff you eat. So anyone can find a local consultant and host a gathering and earn all sorts of pretty prizes and discounts or you can even decide to become a consultant and get even more cute loot. And money. Yeah, I’m sure the consultants make actual money too.
And today you can enter to win your choice of pillow cover from Blessings Unlimited. One pillow cover winner for every 100 comments. But wait, there’s more…
Blessings Unlimited has all sorts of things filled with meaningful beauty. You can see all of this and more in the online catalog.
And BU is the maker of the tray I love. It’s currently in my kitchen holding my bread board collection. And by collection I mean two bread boards.
One super duper lucky winner will get a $100 shopping spree {I love the word “spree”} from BU to spend on anything they want. All you have to do is leave a comment here to enter to win. And because I am nosy and want to feel better about my addiction, leave a comment telling us how many decorative pillows you have.
Want to host a gathering, become a consultant or place an order? Fill out the little form on the left side of the front pages of the catalog.
Oh boy, I love pillows! I don’t know how many I have, but I will definitely use your idea for keeping the forms and getting new covers! I just bought two new pillows from Pier One yesterday, a beaded, sequined bird pillow for the couch and a fun bright pink patterned one for my sitting room!
I have the same addiction, pillows and lamps. I am just getting savy about the pillow covers, and have started to mistreat some of mine too. I am hoping to get a collection for each seasons
to help keep my house fresh. So easy to change out a pillow and change the feel of the room!!
I have 3 pitiful pillows from Wal-Mart on my couch and I can’t stand them. Help!!!
I love pillows as well! They are such an easy and inexpensive way to change the look of a room. I have five in my living room right now, with 4 put away for different seasons. I just made new slip covers for two of them. I planning on making a few more slip covers for them. They are so easy and fun to sew!
Lately it has come to my attention that I, in fact, have a dearth of pillows in my home. Seriously, only, like, thirteen. And of those, three are in storage because they are ugly, two came with the couch and two were originally purchased for my daughter to use in the car on long trips, but were appropriated by my husband because they were super-squishy and he needed something to crush after he mangled the two that came with the couch so now they are mangled as well.
Oh, and three are surrounded with tassels that were a continuous source of destructive amusement for the dog when he was a puppy.
So, to recap:
3- Storage,
4- Mangled, and
3- Puppy fodder.
I need some pillow covers!
Thanks, Nester! You inspire me!
I am attempting to recover every pillow in our house. With four kids they all look dingy. Why do they make pillows that match a couch anyway? Its not a great look.
My collections of pillows isn’t that great, I went through an animal print phase a few years ago, and now I need to update everything. Thanks for the inspiration!
5 in my living room, 8 on the basement couches/chairs, and 3 in my room. Yeah, I probably don’t need another pillow, but I got this disease from my mother, and I’m not really interested in getting rid of it just yet. Thanks for the giveaway!
I think I’m commenter # 1159….I think this might be the most comments in blogging history. :)
pillows and lamps are my favorite, too!
we have about 25 throughout our house….living rooms and bedrooms together.
generous give away….here’s hoping I win…cause who can ever have enough pillows?
I’m needing to add some new springy ones.
I got six pillow forms for Christmas! I’m ready to cover those babies!
Right now, I have 4 decorative pillows out in the family room. However, I have a bunch more in storage for different seasons because I LOVE pillows! Great idea to cover them (light bulb moment for me!).
Wow! I just mentally counted mine and I have 12 through out our little house! On beds, chairs, the couch and in a basket! Love the ‘Quietness’ pillow from BU and the ‘Peacefulness’ one if I could get my given-to-us-when-newly-married-floral couch in a white slipcover which I’ve wanted to REALLY BAD for a very long time so I can have different colors to mix things up once in a while!!!
I would love a pillow cover and the spree. Of course, that goes without saying. I have very few decorative pillows but I’m really interested in starting my own collection.
I have six on just my twin size bed alone but I have many more in storage!
I hope I’m not too late for this. I have 2, and NEED more. (preferably free)
I love pillows and especially love the pillow covers that I have gotten from Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware, on sale of course ; ) Not sure how many decorative pillows we have around here and in storage…lost count… And I have a thing for lamps as well, I especially love rescuing and redoing ones from GW! SO fun! I just recently went to a Blessings Unlimited Party and their pillow covers are even more awesome in real life : ) Would love to win one for our home!
Pillows!!! Love them and I love switching them around. I have about 6 pillows from Pier One that I love the look of but hate because they are feather and always lossing feathers. To tell you the truth I never thought to slip cover them. I’ll put that in the I’m from a small town file. I hope I win! Thanks!
I have exactly 2 throw pillows – can I still play? LOL
I have 12 pillows! I love them!!
I’ve just started making my own pillow covers, and slowly but surely am getting the hang of it!
I have only 8 pillows at the moment! Trying to expand that!!
I LOVE PILLOWS! I have 14 on my sofas and beds. I’d also love the Walk in Grace pillow cover–it has such great texture.
i only have 7 decorative pillows at present – but your post has solved my most recent decorating dilema so i plan to acquire more! i LOVE blessings unlimited – had scheduled a party but had to cancel :-( i think hosting a party late next month might be the perfect “welcome to spring” event!!
I love pillows, but I have very few right now that I truly like, except for in our sunroom – those pillows are still fresh after 6 years, but I am tired of them! I purged the rest of our sad old collection and never replaced them! I love the Blessings Unlimited line from Dayspring – Jeanne Winters featured a cloche and pedestal on her blog that I am completely smitten with!
I only have the ones that came with my couch. Pitiful, I know!
i love faux fur pillows!!! i have like 5 of them in my bedroom but the funny thing is is that my dogs think they are for them!!! they are always curled up on them either on the bed or on the floor!!!! i always throw them in the wash and they have held up nicely!! love that!
I only have 3.., all covered by me. One of my kids has more in her room than there are in the rest of the house. There’s always something more urgent to buy. I would love the shopping spree!
This girl can always use more pillows. Seriously, what girl couldn’t?
I love pillows. A few new ones can instantly make a room look fresh.
pillows. I think they are a woman thing. :)
I have very few pillows but would love to add to what I have. Fun giveaway! Thanks
I am NOT a pillow collector, but my pillows need serious help! :) I love BU!
I have 10. Pillows make a room look so pretty!
5… the ones that came with my sofa and chair. I’m pathetic, I know!
I love BU!!! Such simple, beautiful pieces. I only have two pillows in my living room, but I’ve had my eye on the Alvine Floral at IKEA for ages–but they don’t sell it online!
I have 6 pillows in the living room, and 3 on my daughters bed. I could use some for our bed. Which these ones would be perfect for. So crossing my fingers for this giveaway
I don’t have very many pillows in the common areas of our home, because my boys always rearrange them or fight with them. So right now, I have a collection of 7 on my bed. Hopefully when the kids are house-trained, I can move them to other rooms in my home.
What a beautiful shop! I have seven accent pillows in our living room, and three in our bedroom… and a bag of inserts waiting to fill pillows in our closet :) I love ‘em, too!
Oh gosh, I have 3 on my couch, one in my daughter’s room and four on my bed…I would have many more…but I have a dog who doesn’t respect boundaries! :-)
I love those pillow covers! and pillows. My question is…Will men EVER understand the need for multiple levels of pillows? I hope so. I just tell my sweet hubby, he doesn’t have to understand, he’s just gotta love me. ;-)
i love those pillows!!! i need those for my couch! i only have pillows on my bed. a ton of them, like 10!!!
I too love pillows. I have about 20 on my bed right now and 22 on 3 of my coaches. I love pillow cases as well! So much easier to store then more pillows! Love your blog btw!!!! I love to see what creative things you always come up with. I really wanted to come to your yard sale the day you had it but with 5 kids there is always something going on! ;0)
I have more pillows and feather inserts than I can count. I often buy them and forget to return them. tee hee
Oh gracious. I have over 25…let’s just leave it at that. It’s safe to say that I love pillows and pillow covers as much as you do.
Off the top of my head I only have 19 decorative pillows in my house. I DEFINITELY need more. Thanks for the giveaway, Nester.
Love, Love those pillow covers. Just got done counting…18! Thanks for the chance to win.
Yay! Pillows! love love love them! :) and, really, can a girl ever have too many?
I always admire pillows, but own not even one decorative one. The furnished house I just moved into is brown and beige and brown again and needs something desperately. It is time to make my pillow admiration come HOME.
Pillows are a part of making our home comfortable and homey. I would love to love to add to the ones I have. There is not such thing as having too many.
My pillow count is sad. I only have 2. I love pillows but hate the price tag, so I’m learning to sew to fix this problem :)