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Nursery Project: Bird Mobile

June 3, 2010 by Aliesha

I’m excited to show you the bird mobile that I created for our nursery! It is a little hard to photograph, but I think you’ll at least get the idea of what it looks like. I’ll try to get a better picture at some point, but these will have to do for now!Tad is working on putting the crib together, and we are on our way to pick up a glider rocker this afternoon. We also have a changing table, so we are “getting there” when it comes to having our nursery ready for our baby girl!

Want to see how our nursery is progressing? Check out our previous posts on the fabric birds, cloth cube, bunting banner, light switch cover, and white frames, and wall art that I made.

Flower Headband

May 20, 2010 by Aliesha

Flower headbands are all the rage now for everyone from little girls to grown women! They are all over etsy and tutorials abound in the blogosphere. I won’t bore you with a tutorial, since you can find them very easily, but I will show a few pictures of the headband I made! The headband was in a 3-pack from the Dollar Tree, and the flower was from a “bush” of flowers (about 7 or so on the bush) also from the Dollar Tree. So, for $2 I can make at least 3 headbands, plus have more flowers for future projects!

Every Grain of Sand Wall Art

April 24, 2010 by Aliesha

I found a beautiful piece of driftwood (actually more like a weathered fence board) that was just begging me to paint something on it! I knew I wanted to put it somewhere in our beach bathroom, but I couldn’t come up with anything creative to paint on it. (“Life is a beach” didn’t seem quite what I was looking for.) Tad suggested I paint “every grain of sand” on it, from the song by the same title. Now, every time we look at the sign, we are reminded of these lyrics:

Then onward in my journey
I have come to understand
That every hair is numbered
like every grain of sand
…
I am hanging in the balance
of a perfect finished plan
Like every sparrow falling,
like every grain of sand.
{Bob Dylan / Derek Webb}

As an added bonus, this project was essentially free, since I used found wood and acrylic paint and a brush I already had.

I might leave the sign where it is, but I am also contemplating hanging it above one of the doors. We’ll see!

For more pictures from this bathroom, click here.

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