When I remodeled my sewing room to make it more efficient, a lot of DIY work went into it and not a lot of money. All the furniture and storage in the room was either reused, repurposed or rearranged.
What had previously been my cutting table, became a wall to wall desk for my computer and sewing machines. It is a hollow core door. In order to use it as a desk, my husband cut it down the center, reinforced it with some wood supports in the hollow area, and secured it to the wall with wood cleats. The front is supported on legs fashioned from plumbing pipe.
You can read about more of the changes we made on my blog. http://creativelittledaisy.typepad.com/creat...
Mary, if you google tissue paper pompoms there are several tutorials, the one I used was from Martha Stewart.
Have you looked on line? amazon, Ikea, ebay? Keep looking, you may find one at a garage sale even...
and My Granddaughter sewed those bigger handkerchiefs together to make a bedroom curtain, it looks nice. You need to show yours when you get it done.