I wanted to do some family pictures in Eden's room, but don't have a lot of table top space in there. And, I wanted to utilize one of the Asian silk dresses we bought her in China. So, I set out to Michael's craft store to see if I could muster up some creativity. I am NOT artistic at all (my sister got that gene from my mom) so I needed it to be fairly simple and impossible to mess up. Here's what I came up with:
I was able to find a wall shelf that would hold frames that also had pegs so I could hang the dress. The frames and "E" letter were $1 each and the shelf was $10 or so. They were unfinished wood and I painted them with acrylic paint. So this whole project with paint (I had the spray sealer and brushes already) was about $20. Not bad!
Here is a close-up of the shelf and frames. The flower appliques for the frames were already painted and I just glued them on.
I also needed something with a few hooks for purses/bags. This also came unfinished and I painted it pink and glued the froggy on it.Also, I love family pictures!!! The walls in my newly painted craft room were bare. So I picked out several pictures that I love of our family and changed them to black and white in i photo. Then I sent them to Wal-Mart digitally to be printed in a variety of sizes. I spray mounted them on black foam board and attached some chocolate brown ribbon that I had left over from a wedding to them for hangers. Here's how it turned out. I love it!!! I'll just go in there a stare at the walls, and these will be easy to update and add to as our family grows and changes.
That's about all we've been up to this week. Stay tuned for a post tomorrow or over the weekend titled "Real Pink Cowboy Boots." You can imagine the sassiness of that one!! Love you all!
That's about all we've been up to this week. Stay tuned for a post tomorrow or over the weekend titled "Real Pink Cowboy Boots." You can imagine the sassiness of that one!! Love you all!
2 comments:
Ok...I LOVE IT!!! I am challenged in this area too...and honestly...my kids DESTROY their room...so I quit even TRYING to make it look nice. Maybe when they're ALL in school next year I can try some of these things!! They look awesome!! I Love HGTV too!!!! Great to hear from you. I'm going to check your other post now!! Have a wonderful weekend!
Buffi
As Kimmie says so much these days:
"I LUB IT, I LUB IT, I LUB IT!"
Keri you have got the touch! Can you come spread it around the Ferrill home now? We are in the midst of extreme home makeover "GIRL" edition...redoing the girls' bedroom...and though we've made significant progress this week, I'm so not the decorator! Now you give me some kiddos and I'll teach all day, but decorate? UGH! I like to think I like to decorate, but then when the time comes to do it, (like now), I want someone to do it for me! ;)
What you did in Eden's room and those pictures is SO adorable...thanks for the ideas!
And as for the update in the post below...I LUB IT TOO! ;)
Her pics are adorable, it makes me really miss yall! I still am the one who puts Kimmie to bed and we don't even try to rock that boat anymore. It's such a small thing in the big scheme of things and if that's what she likes, why not? She is just still very much a momma's girl...but LUBS her some daddy too! I think that is so sweet that Eden likes for Maggie to sleep in her room!
Good grief. Wouldya look at the size of this comment. This is why when I leave messages on people's answering machine, I always get cut off for the message being too long! ;)
well, you love me anyway right? you have too! We traveled to China together so we're bonded for life! ;)
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