Felt pom poms

 Every little girl deserves some pom pom loving in her room. These turned out great. I made them using felt fabric from Joanns. The colors are hot pink, light pink and off white.

The balls are about 7" big

I love how they compliment the room

What you need:

Felt fabric (I used 1/4 yards of fabric per ball)

Styrofoam balls

Glue gun

Glue sticks

Eye bolts

Thin ribbon

Scissors

 

1. I cut strips of fabric first, then cut them into squares (about 2.5" x 2.5"). I got a few squares at once and cut out lots of circles. 

2. Put some glue in the middle of the circle

3. Fold the circle in half and let the glue stick

4. Add more glue and fold again 

Add glue to the tips of the fabric then stick it to the ball.

I used a ribbon to hang them up. I tied one end of the ribbon to the bolts and hot glued the other end to the ball. They haven't fallen off so far, so its safe to say they are stable.

 I am just doing the final touches in Diana's room. I still need to take a picture of her to hang in her room, and spray paint a few picture frames. Then we should be good to go.
Come back for the room reveal this coming Monday Wednesday. I am so excited..

Whale wall decor

Remember the  nautical nursery storyboard for Eli's room? Well, this is the one piece I was not so sure I could pull off. I must say it was very thrilling to make, it looks awesome and its quite big. The whale measures 34" x 20" long

This is what you will need:
2 red cedar fence board
Newspaper (or any large piece of paper)
9 mending plates
Minwax wood finish
Picture hangers
A rug or paint brush
A pen or pencil

Here is my inspiration picture from PBK. I have no idea how much it costs. I even wonder if they ever sold it, it was just part of the room and I loved it. I found these kind of whales for $100 on Etsy and it only cost me about $12 to make my very own..hurray!

Cut boards in half and arrange them like above. Draw a picture of a whale on the newspaper (if you look closely, you will see I had to adjust and redraw mine several times). Cut out the drawing from your paper and using a pencil draw alone the edges of the cutout onto the boards.

Here is how it looked like after

Then I whipped out my favorite tool of all times. My saw, this is one item I would take with me to my grave yes our relationship is that deep. I have used it on all my wood cutting projects, love it love it love it!!

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Cut up all my pieces, one board at a time

Is that cool or what? The jig saw cut through this board like it was butter. It's the first time I have used it for something this precise and it delivered:)

I turned it around and screwed in the mending plates where the boards came together. Then I nailed in the picture hangers, one on the tail and the other on the head (not shown in picture).

I used this stain, love this stuff

Love it!

DIY Bird Poster

Its official, I love wood pallets. They are very affordable and easy to work with.
So, here is another poster for Diana's room. It is taking me a lot longer to finish her room then I anticipated. No worries, one day I will get it all done:)

Materials needed:
Wood from Home depot
Wood finish, I used walnut stain from home depot
White spray paint  from home depot
Black and hot pink acrylic paint from hobby lobby
Paint brushes
Graphite paper from hobby lobby
Printer

If you don't have a cricut machine, or if you don't want to purchase silhouettes like me, you can easily draw your own birds. I drew mine on regular printer paper. Then I got the graphite paper, laid it on my wood and put the bird picture on top. I used a non working pen (you can use whatever pointy device you have) to draw around the edges of my images. I used the same process with the words, 'love birds.' I used microsoft word to type my words, I like the font..

This is how it looked like after I was done. 

Then I used black acrylic paint to fill in the outlined images

It turned out so well, I will never cry for a cricut machine again!

I got the lamp from target. I probably won't have it there when am all done with this room. I got the bird cage from hobby lobby for just $9 (with a 40% coupon). It was a light green color, then I painted it white, then light pink, and now its hot pink. I am thinking of painting it light pink again, haha, decisions, decisions

The lighting in my pictures is not that great because I took them at night while my daughter was sleeping

The nest and eggs are from hobby lobby too. My daughter is so happy that she has birds and eggs of her own

Bird Mobile

We had a very Happy Christmas and we are excited for the New Year:)
And now I am also excited to get back to my projects. Maybe way too many but we will see how it goes:)
Diana is getting a new make over for her room. The theme is 'love birds' and the color scheme is light pink, hot pink, white and light grey..
So today I made her a bird mobile. She is a little too old for such stuff but I couldn't resist. It turned out really cute:) Its hanging right on top of her twin bed

 What you need:

* Birds from Hobby Lobby The birds come with tiny wires in the chest that I used to wrap them around the sticks
* Sticks - I picked them outside
* Eye bolts from Home Depot
* Transparent thread to attach the sticks to the eye bolt that goes into the ceiling

Christmas Wood Poster

 This was a fun project for me. I have seen these boards everywhere on Pinterest and I was dying to make one. It turned out pretty good and I am excited to do a few more in this ally:)

It was very easy to make but a little time consuming. At the end of making this, we had a lot of our furniture painted white because my little helper was very eager to help out in her own special way.


If you want to make one for yourself, here is what you will need:

• 2 fence boards 5/8" X 3.5" X 60" each from Lowes (my new favorite store) and I had them cut the boards into 6 pieces for me. So each board was 20" long.
• Harmer
• Stain paint
• Paint brush 
• Nails
• White graphite paper (not shown in picture)
• White acrylic paint
• Small paint brush

1. I aligned my boards and fastened them with 2 boards and nails on the back as shown below

2. With the 2 boards on the back, my poster had a spine and it could stand

3. Here is the wood finish, I got dark walnut - used it for the first time and loved it.

4. I used the brush to paint at first but didn't like it. It was laying it darker than I wanted so I used a dish cloth to finish it off.
 

5. I just dipped the rug into the stain can and rubbed it onto the wood. I really liked the effects because I could see the grains of the wood better:)

6. Here is how it looks after its been painted with the rug

7. I don't have a picture, but next I used Microsoft word to type up my wordings, printed it on white regular paper and used my white graphite paper to trace my words onto the wood. You can get the graphite paper  from Hobby Lobby  (white for dark surfaces and black graphite paper for light surfaces)  really  awesome stuff! I'm excited to do a few more projects with it:)
After tracing, I hand painted all the words with a tiny brush and white paint.

Enjoy!