Nursery Art!
This piece is the major focal point for the soon-to-be-gender-neutral nursery!
Believe it or not, this project cost me about $.75 to make! I used a large canvas I already had that was up in Molly’s room and all the paper used for the mosiac came from my scrapbook paper scrap box! I used a bottle of regular old Elmer’s glue ($.75!) and just glued away piece by piece until I had the finished look I wanted.
This is what the piece looked like when I started. This hung above Molly’s crib in her girly nursery.
After I removed the old artwork (and turned into 2 scrapbook pages of course!) I free hand traced a large sunshine onto the canvas in pencil.
I spent the next three evenings cutting scraps of scrapbook paper that were blue in any shade, gray in any shade, and purple in any shade into small squares of various sizes. I usually did this mindlessly while watching a show with my hubbie.
Piece by piece, I glued it together layering the pieces ever so slightly as I went.
You can see how I layered the pieces around my traced out sunshine.
Molly was pretty excited about it, as you can see!
Then the next evening was spent cutting any yellow or orange scraps I had into squares. I didn’t actually have that many, so I did break into my 12 X 12 stash for some more yellow and cut up an entire 12 X 12 piece of paper as well.
I cut triangles for the rays from card stock scraps and actually layered them on top of the blue once they were paper “mosiac-ed.”
Then I cut a large half circle out of cardboard and layered that on top of the triangles for the main portion of the sun.
The letters I traced onto white card stock scraps using some chip board letters I had and cut them out by hand– tedious but free!
I LOVE THE WAY IT TURNED OUT!
This piece will hang in the center of the room between their two beds and set the tone for the room. Bright, colorful, and happy!
Now if only the weather would cooperate and allow us to be able to paint the room, that’d be awesome. We actually had snow today!
We need to be able to open windows for ventilation because I am preggers and Molly will still need to sleep in there. I was so bummed about the fact that once again, the painting is being put off that I could hardly pull myself out of that state of bummed out disappointment. To help perk myself up, I made another art piece for the room… to be shown to you all later!
Making Crayons…
Molly loves doing “projecks.” I cannot tell you how much I love that about her!
She received a huge tower of brand new crayons for Christmas from my brother so I thought we could do a “projeck” with our old crayons. (I’ve had that box of crayons since high school folks!)
This crayon project has been all over the internet, so I know this isn’t anything new. But it was fun, simple, and took something we already had and made it into something new and fun for us to use!
We took off the paper, Molly sorted by colors she wanted together, and then I melted them in the oven at 250 and let them cool! Molly calls them her “new” crayons! She is quite the little artist with her new up-cycled crayons.
A Simple Valentine’s Day…
What? Valentine’s Day is this week? How did that happen? Am I the only one who feels like this?
Its great to have a day to focus on loving and appreciating the important folks in your life, but does it need to be a holiday you go all out for? For me– not so much.
I have some simple plans for making V-day special at our house thanks to some awesome pins on my beloved Pinterest!
For breakfast, heart shaped pancakes for Molly, and heart shaped eggs in a basket for hubbie.
For some simple activities, Molly and I will be making a heart stamp out of a toilet paper tube to make cards for family and friends, and making a quick V-day treat together in the kitchen… Valentine’s Day fudge! (Recipe is just a can of pink frosting mixed with a bag of white chocolate chips! How easy is that?)
Last but not least, Molly will also help momma make dinner for daddy, heart shaped homemade pizza!
All these simple ideas use ingredients or supplies I already have! The exceptions being the frosting and white chocolate chips, but those cost me about $3.50 to buy and I just included them in my weekly grocery shopping. No other additional funds are needed for this Valentine’s Day! (Yay for keeping the budget simple AND STILL making the day special!)
As for decorations? I just added a few paper hearts here and there to my existing wintery decor.
Centerpiece.
Mantel.
My dining room hutch.
Aren’t they cute? Just scrapbook paper hearts taped to a wooden skewer and placed inside a grouping of white bud vases. Love it!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
My Computer Is Back!
Yay! My computer needed some work done the last week and I missed it! I’ve had so many blogging ideas over the past week that I’ve just had to set aside because our computer was “in the shop!” I really need to start writing these ideas down though, because once it was back earlier this week, I couldn’t remember anything I had thought to blog about!
Mommy brain? I think YES.
I did have my second ultrasound last week and we have a confirmed gender of boy! I found these cute little Tommy Hilfiger rompers at Goodwill for $.99 each the other day in 18 month size and snagged them! He’ll wear them next summer. (If I do buy clothes for my kiddos, I try to buy ahead as we often receive clothing gifts in their current or smaller sizes. This way I have a bit of a stockpile of clothes before they are needed!)
I love that they look like men’s dress shirts! My brother loves Tommy, so I told him we’d have to have them match for a picture at some point.
So fun to the whole boy thing now! I can’t wait to show you all the progress on our nursery! All be it very slow progress, I have managed to finish a couple things I’ll share soon.
Have fun watching Superbowl tomorrow all!
