Tutorial Tuesday - Headboards!

I’m so mad, you guys. I had a tutorial that I did MYSELF (pictures and everything) that I was pushing to finish, but I had to hold off. I mean, I didn’t *have* to hold off. I just decided to be patient and not only finish it, but have it actually in the place it’s going to reside in the apartment. I swear, sometimes I’m so excited to show you guys my projects that I show them half done. And then they look kinda booty. NOT THIS TIME!

Then I remembered another project I’ve been wanting to share with you guys for a while now, but it somehow got lost in my head (it was before Pinterest which is now an extension of my brain in the remembering department) - headboards. I know, a little weird. But I ran into one of my bloupies (HA! Get it? Blog groupies! I know I don’t really have any bloupies, just readers and now you’re probably unsubscribing because I just insulted you. Lady Gaga calls her followers monsters. Wouldn’t you rather be called a bloupie than a monster? I would. Plus, I was just being funny, so dial it down). I was in line at Jo-Ann Fabrics to buy fabric (I know…). A DIY blogger standing in line at Jo-Anns. Appropriate, right? Anyway, Amanda (I’m TOTALLY give you a shout-out, Amanda!) showed me an awesome project she had finished. Before she showed me the picture, she said it was a headboard and I pretty much shouted in her face “IT’S NOT A TUFTED ONE, IS IT?????!!!” like a weirdo. Another hilarissing moment. ANYWAY, it was indeed a tufted one. It. Was. So. Pretty. Even though I have a perfectly good headboard that I like, I also want a tufted one. And several others. I wish they were rotatable. Ryan would LOVE that. Not.

OK. Enough blabbering. Here are the tutorials:

Tufted headboard. Did your head just explode? It did, didn’t it. I actually think you could wrap a turd in this blue velvet and I would covet it. I don’t even have any more words to describe my love of this thing. I almost want to stop the tutorial list now and just say “this is the headboard you need to make.” Boom (goes the dynamite).

Old door headboard. I know. It’s amazing what paint, fabric and upholstery tacks can do. AMAZING! As a side note, this blogger was on “Craft” Wars a few episodes ago. As you can see from this tutorial, she is amazing. But because she was unable to glue crap from a junk drawer and make it look like a nice bird house (how would a bird house with crap from a junk drawer EVER look nice), she was eliminated. This girl. She could probably whittle a bird house in her sleep. Sans junk because NO SANE DIY’ER USES JUNK!!! Ok. Enough on “Craft” Wars.

Rustic headboard. I love wood. That sounds like something Brick Tamland would say. But really. This is so pretty and looks so simple to make!

Pallet headboard. As a DIY tutorial stalker, I’ve seen a TON of projects you can make with old pallets. I love them. They’re so rustic looking and, obviously, very cheap. But I read an article a while ago about how we shouldn’t use pallets, so I took them off my list of projects. I say that like I’d have anywhere to put anything made out of pallets. But I decided to post this anyway because people might not care about the reasons against it. I mean, people still smoke, right? And it IS pretty. You decide…

So, that’s it for headboards. Stay tuned for next week’s tutorial with pictures taken by yours truly. I’m super, duper jazzed about it.