Nursery

Although I haven't been posting, I have been busy.  For some reason incubating a new human life inside one's own body is hard work!

Since everyone I know who has seen a photo of our nursery alphabet wall think's it's pretty darn cool and they also can't belive I made it, I thought I'd do a super quick post on it.

Of course, there are about a milllion alphabet walls for inspiration out there & many of them are pinned to my Nursery board on Pinterest, so I'm not going to go into posting more here.

Here's how it turned out:

The wall is "Crayola Gray" by Dutch Boy, which we had mixed in their Zero VOC Paint (AWESOME!) and the colors  really pop off of the neautral background.

Here's a run down of where the letters came from & what I did to them:

ROW 1: 
A- Thrift Store- covered with fabric
B-Hobby Lobby- painted & covered with fabric
C- Jo-Ann- painted
D-Michael’s -(started as a P)- painted and covered with fabric
E- Thrift Store- covered with scrapbook paper
F- Jo-Ann- painted
G- Thrift Store- recovered in new fabric
H- Pottery Barn Kids clearance $.99- painted

ROW 2:
I- Thrift Store- recovered in velvet
J-already owned, originally from Marshal’s- painted
K- Jo-Ann- covered with fabric
L-Gift from Mom, probably from a Thrift Store- painted
M- Michael’s- nothin'
N- Michael’s- covered with fabric
O- Jo-ann (it’s a button)- painted
P- Already owned; originally from Archiver’s- silver leaf
Q- Hobby Lobby- covered with fabric

ROW 3:
R- Hancock Fabric clearance for 75 cents!- nothin'
S- Jo-Ann- painted and covered with scrapbook paper
T- Michael’s- covered with fabric
U- Hobby Lobby- painted
V- Thrift Store- painted & covered with scrapbook paper
W- Thrift Store- recovered in new fabric
X- Micheal’s? Hobby Lobby? Jo-Ann? I really can't remember!- covered with fabric
Y- Pottery Barn Kids clearance $.99- painted
&- Thrift Store- recovered in vinyl (big pain!)
Z- Hobby Lobby- covered with fabric

I'm not dead, yet!

I've been MIA working on a lot of projects lately, including the costumes for a community theatre production of The Philadelphia Story, but I really haven't fallen off the face of the planet!

Thursday, I did a little retail therapy and finally purchased the aluminum spray bottles that I've been obsessing over for weeks. I hope they are as cool as they look- I'd really hate to be disappointed by spray bottles twice!

I also found a really great resource for Green Cleaning at Tip Nut! So many great ideas and all in one place, beautifully organized! How can I not love that?

I've also been working on my own alphabet wall similar to this one that everyone has seen, but I first saw at Project Nursery:

And before everyone jumps to conclusions, I'm not expecting. (although it wouldn't be the end of my world if I were ☺) I'm making this for my office! I big puffy ♥ fonts and typefaces and I thought it would be fun to take that love and show it off!

So far, the most expensive letter has been $5 and the best deal was $1! I already owned a "P" and a "J" and at this point I'm down to needing "A", "D", "H", "O", "U", "Y", "Z" and "&". Joann has a couple of different sizes of button wall decorations like the one above, but I wonder if that's too literal of a copy-cat; hmmm?

I'm putting my own little twist on the project (big surprise, huh?) and I can't wait to finish it up and show it off!

I'm in love with...

mercury glass.

I love the mercury glass pumpkins I keep seeing as I look for glam halloween decor. Like these:



Thing is, they are spendy & even if I did have the money to buy one, most places that had them are sold out. I've noticed that there are a bunch of blogs where people have used chrome paint to diy their own mercury glass, but frankly, it looks like glass sprayed with chrome paint. I also found Chez Fifi blog showing the steps of using silver leaf for a mercury glass-like look. This I love. I'm thinking of taking my clear glass pumpkin that came from target many years ago and using some copper leaf, making my own take on the mercury glass pumpkin. More like these:



My only concern is that I just painted one of my terracotta pumpkins a really deep rich copper and I don't want the two to look too similar.

hmmmm....