I was pretty busy crafting yesterday. I'd seen this around and decided to try it myself. First, allow me to back up. When I first looked at this house two years ago, I knew right away it had to be the one because of the upstairs. The bedrooms were larger than most, which was a good thing, but what really sold me was the layout. Alex and Cody are 6 years apart, so sharing wasn't gonna happen. Just wasn't. Only in a pinch, and believe me it'd have to be a fairly major pinch, would I force either one of them to live with the other.
So when I saw that each boy would have their own sink off the bedroom and a shared toilet/shower that connects the two rooms, I was pretty wowed. Okay, okay, that's fine, and I'm thinking "hmm...wonder which boy I'll put with Niki to share this with, because she'll definitely want dibbs on a room with a bathroom attached and her own sink!" Walking down the hall, I come to the third bedroom upstairs--and it was like the strobe lights started strobing, music started playing, confetti started falling and shooting stars started shooting from one corner of the room to the next. No, it wasn't as big as the other rooms, and no, it didn't have a nice walk-in closet. But what it did have was far more precious--it had its own little bathroom! It's small, shower toilet and pedastal sink only, but it's ALL hers. And trust me, I've been in there once or twice, nobody I know would want to share with her--you'd think she owned the cosmetics wall at Target, and it was all displayed on her bathroom sink/shelves/floor, wherever she can stash it!
So why, you might wonder, am I telling you all about the upstairs? Because although we've painted the hallway walls, in two years we have yet to decorate the long expanse that goes from the boys' rooms to Nikis. It's very....beige-ish. I try to get upstairs as little as possible, what I don't know, well, I won't know! But yesterday, I got a hair, drove over to Michael's for supplies and spent the day/evening creating. It needed to be something that was all about THEM, not me. I get the entire rest of the house to decorate. Besides, like I said, their bedrooms are the only rooms up there, so it's okay.
I made up each of their names with coordinating scrap paper, leaning pink for Niki, blue for Cody and Green for Alex--which quickly got shortened from Alexander--I ran out of steam. Then I bought three very inexpensive clip frames and randomly chose three art projects from their school years and framed them (recognize Flat Stanly?). When Halloween comes around, and we pull out the Halloween art box, it'll be VERY simple to change-out. Same for Christmas, Easter, etc. I've saved at bunch of their art, so I think I'll have most of the seasons covered. I think I'll even display some of the cute notes they've written over the years. *click the photos to see the details*
It needs something more, my head has ideas, but I'm not clear on my vision yet. I'm considering eye hooks with picture wire placed randomly and clipping school work, art, photographs just whatever onto the wire.
I wanted to share the letter process with you, it's a cinch!
Paint the edges of the letters.
Modge Podge the craft paper that's torn into pieces onto the letters randomly
Dry
Turn upside down and take an Exacto knife to the edges to trim up the paper
Modge Podge the whole thing two or three times
Hang!
