Day 16- Girlie Signs

Continuing our 31 days of making signs, this week I’m going to share several different kinds of signs I’ve made, that there really isn’t a category for!

See this weekend’s beach signs here, and how I make signs here!

Hope you enjoy this week!

To start us off, here’s some adorable girlie signs I made. I had several of these purchased for little girls’ rooms! I made them in the colors of my girls’ room, even though their room doesn’t really have a shabby vibe! I made them using this method.






To see the rest of my 31 days of signs posts, check out these links,


Intro

How to make signs:

Day 1- Where to find wood
Day 2- Gathering your supplies
Day 3- Making signs using your own stencils
Day 4- Making signs using pre-made stencils
Day 5- Making signs with stickers
Day 6- Making signs free-handed
Day 7- Making signs with stamps
Day 8- Making signs with transfers
Day 9- Print a sign
Day 10- Making signs with cutouts
Day 11- Recap- 8+ ways to make signs

Beach Weekend:

Day 12- Beach Subway Art
Day 13- All You Need is Love and the Beach
Day 14 - More Beach Signs
Day 15- Small Beach Signs


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Baby Girl Lamp Update

I found these adorable little butterflies at Dollar Tree and thought they'd be perfect on Baby Girl's lamp! It's been needing something!

The butterflies had little wires to wrap around, ummm I'm not sure what! It had to come off to get them to stick to the lamp, but I couldn't cut it too shore because the wire was also part of the actual butterfly!

I added some two sided sticky foam to the back and simply stuck them on!

I added the rest to little buckets also purchased at the Dollar Tree.

Simple update, easy to change! Which I'm sure I will because in a couple years she'll be able to yank those suckers right of!! Liking it for now!

Baby Girl Pillows

I'm still trying to tackle the list of things to do for Baby Girl's room. Yep, my almost 8 month old Baby Girl's room!! It's a process for me, ok?

I just recently whipped up a bunch of pillows from scraps I had from other stuff for her room.

The 2 Michael Miller prints are her main ones, used in her bedding, changing table pad, curtains, diaper bag, and rocking chair. (None made by me!!)

The other two, she has blankets made out of- the animal print blanket made by me!

Sewing pillows, blankets, and burp cloths is all I've mastered so far! Oh and her changing table cover, which I hope to feature soon!

I've got plans to paint, replace the lid and cover the lid of this hope chest here, that matches the furniture I had as a kid. I got rid of the rest of the set before I knew I was pregnant! Had I been reading blogs at the time, I may have kept it. However it had over 20 years worth of layers of glossy paint, so I'm not sure I could've handled the experience!

This bench will get a coat of white, and possibly black painted scrolls.

I'm hoping this will be a lovely little spot for her to curl up and read some books as she grows older!

Just needs a few more bigger pillows that I may have to actually buy fabric for instead of resorting to scraps that only yeild small pillows! :)

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Baby Girl's Bow Holder

I've been meaning to make Baby Girl a bow holder for quite awhile now, but wasn't sure what I was going to do!

I've got so many projects to do on her room still (and she's almost 7 months old already!!), so I needed something super easy!

My mom bought me this hanging organizer/dry erase board awhile back from Ross' for $1.99.

(Imagine it without the blue ribbon here I forgot that first pic!)

You can't really tell from the picture but it was really cheaply made and wasn't going to work to really write on as a dry erase board. Plus, what does a baby need with one of those! But at under $2, I knew I'd come up with something!

The fabric is cute, but the board is just cardboard around the edges under the fabric and a thin floppy piece of shiny....I don't know what! Super thin papery whiteboard? It's no wonder it ended up on clearance! However the fabric matches her room really well.

I ran across this ladybud/flower cutout ribbon from the $1 bins at Michaels the other day. I bought it before Baby Girl was ever born and knew I'd have a use for it someday!

I literally just cut, and stapled it to the cardboard- which you could reach up under the fabric to get to.

Then I hung up all her bows and clips on the ribbon! Love the way it looks!

(I don't know why the pic makes it look like that 3rd one is crooked!)

Then, the bottom pocket was a little floppy and hung way down, while the top ones are separated. So I pinned it with a leftover rosette from Baby Girl's wreath.

I stuck one on the pockets above, just to match a little even though it didn't need it!

Yep, that headband on the right looks just like the fabric on the organizer!

The top pockets hold her headbands and the bottom has hats! (So teeny you can't really see them!)

I may make some more to put across the top of it just to fancy it up a bit, but this is on the back of her door so no one will really see it unless they go in her room and shut the door!

Slooooowly working through my list of Baby Girl Projects! Yep, I should have more done since she's almost 7 months, but understand I didn't start reading decor/crafting blogs until after she was born! Aaaand I took so long deciding on her theme, I didn't even start her room until a month and a half before she came!

Baby Girl's Rossette Wreath

I made this rossette wreath for my kitchen last week, and since I had a few leftover rosettes, I decided to make one for my Baby Girl's bedroom door.

I used a small wicker type wreath from the Dollar Tree and spray painted it black! It's not perfect, but that's ok since you can't see much of it! It was really too cold to be spray painting, and I kept running into the open garage to squirt it a few times and run back in side repeatedly!!

I used the same white and aqua fabric as the last wreath, and some hot pink felt from the Remnant piles at JoAnn's (my new favorite obsession- searching through remnants!).

The snowflakes are also from JoAnn's and cost a $1 for a bag of them, plus smaller ones. The butterflies are $1 ornaments from Walmart! And the Dream ornament was a gift from a friend a few years back so I'm not sure where that came from! I thought it would look cute here!

The snowflakes are felt "stickers" that I'll remove after winter, and I may just leave this up all year round!

Just wish I had some cuter hangers than the Command ones!

You can see my posts about her room here, here, and here to see the progress I'm making and how this matches her room!

To see how I made the rosettes and where I got this idea, see the link in my earlier post about my other wreath!

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Baby Girl's Flowers

Every day, I rock Baby Girl to sleep and see this across from me.......

And I love the shelves I re-did, and love the flower pot, flowers and butterflies from Hobby Lobby (whose colors never show right in pictures, I promise they match well with her bedding!).

But the flowers and butterflies have been bugging me lately! It just needed something to tie it all in! So, as I sat in the rocking chair every day for the past month or so, I thought up this......

At first, I thought about doing green stems and leaves for the flowers, but there is zero green in her room, so I thought up this black vinyl project!

I used black Cricuit vinyl from JoAnn's- at 2 sheets for $9.99 it isn't cheap, but they always put out 40% or 50% coupons in Sunday's paper, to help make it cheaper! I can handle about $6 for this project, which took up less than 1 sheet and some other projects I have in the works!

I don't have a Cricuit cutting machine though (I really want a Sillouhette one!), so I freehanded all of this!

I drew the stems and leaves on the back of the vinyl, cut them out, and placed them over and over and over until I got them right! :) Thank goodness you can do that with vinyl!

I used a chalk marker to write "Watch Me Grow." It can wipe off with a damp cloth, so I can change the words whenever I want!

Oh, and I must confess......I did this....while she was sleeping, over top of her! Yes, I climbed on a step stool and leaned over the crib while she slept through the whole thing! And took pictures while she was sleeping!

See......

Never moved a muscle! She is her father's daughter and can sleep through anything! Normally I wouldn't do a project over top of her, lol, but I knew I'd be interrupted if I did it during the day! So late at night it was!

Now, I can rock in peace with out the wall yelling at me to fix it, and this is my view instead!

One more number to mark off the list of Baby Girl projects! Projects #1, 5, and 11 (this one!) are complete! Eight more to go! Half of the materials for other projects have been gathered, I just have to order some more fabric! Hope these can get done along with all my other projects, PLUS Christmas is about to hit!!

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