Nursery Wall Name

Just had to show what i am working on.  I will show an updated pic soon as I finish them.

These are for the Nursery.  

Now I need to glue Ribbon to the top with a bow so we can hang them on her wall.

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Makayla'Jo and her Nursery

Here is what I did for the Baby Shower

Nanna gives a baby shower for Makayla'Jo

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Baby Wish List and Cupcake Toppers 

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My Puzzle Wall Tutorial

DO you like to put puzzles together, but don't want to take them back apart?

You want to glue them together but not sure what to use.  Or what to do with them.

by this at Walmart or any craft store.

Take poster board or a big piece of card board

I bought 2 sheets.  I put my puzzle together on top of one.   And you can use the 2nd sheet to cover the puzzle when you are not working on it.  Then no one will mess up what you have done so far.  And if you have cats, they can't get to the loose pieces.

Once you put your puzzle together put the 2nd sheet of foam board and have someone help you flip it over.   Layer a piece of either newspaper or gift wrapping paper onto the back of the puzzle.  

DO NOT glue yet or your front of your puzzle will stick to foam board.

Now flip again

Before coating if you want to add a label to the puzzle write or type 

one up 

and apply to bottom right corner.

 Coat the front of your puzzle 3 times with Modge Podge.

Dry in about 2 hours between each coat.

Now put foam board over it and flip again.

You can either coat the back or glue paper on the back.  I glued Kraft paper on the back of mine

Once you have several puzzles.  And an empty wall you can start covering it.

I started in the middle toward the top.

Tools you will need are:

1- yard stick

2- ruler

3 - scissors

4 -  pencil

5 - Hammer

6 - xacto knife

7 - straight pins with flat top

8 - Level

Starting at top middle of your wall hang your first puzzle.   

Use your level at the top or bottom of the first puzzle you put up to make sure it is level

Using the Straight pens 

Add your puzzles in random sizes so it forms a sort of collage.

Holding the Straight pin so that your fingers are all the way to the head and all the way close to the wall.  

Keeping the pin at an angle tap tap tap small taps.  If you don't follow these directions you will constantly bend your pins.

If your puzzle is bowing in the middle at all add a pin somewhere around there.  Do not tap them in all the way, then tap side of head bending the pen.  Flatten it done and it will hold puzzle flat.

I should have removed the boarder that the previous owners put up.   But wasn't sure how.

I first started in the middle of the wall but then I had a problem at the top.  See how one has a gap.  So I took the Rhino down and started at the top.  I also found no matter how flat the side of the puzzle looks it is not flat. 

So I used some green card stock I had on hand.

I cut 3/4 th inch by the length of paper

I then lined around each puzzle.

I learned by mistake.  Here is what it looks like when you don't line them.

when you line around them with green or another dark color it will look like this.

Using the Straight pens 

Add your puzzles in random sizes so it forms a sort of collage.

Now why do you need Ruler and yard stick.  Well I ended mine at a certain point on the wall.  So I had to cut them to fit.  I also wrapped them around the corners.

I ended up with a small 8 x 8 square.  So I took a small puzzle one of my Foster girls did and cut it to fit.  The Monkey face.

The Tree I had to cut to fit a space there.

Had to add another part of the Kittens puzzle to the top right corner.

I still need to finish beside the curtains.  Curtains by the way are pulled to the side because I have a bird cage sitting on desk right now and I don't want them pooping on the curtains.  lol

And now the finished or almost finished room.

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Goodwill Make Overs

Why pay a high price when you can go to the Goodwill and make your own.  

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Snowman Painting with Acrylic Paint

I am so far behind on posting it is not even funny.  I'm sure all of you are getting behind on things also.  The holidays are fun by overwhelming.  LOL  I have taken a couple more painting classes since the last post and want to share them with you.  

  I'm so sorry I forgot to take pictures of the steps.  I took a few so will put them below.  

But before I do here is the steps I remember.

Paint your back ground a blue you like.  Mine is Teal and blue mixed.

Next either with Chalk or with painting draw a head and body.  You can draw it up high like I did so your had hangs over the top of the painting.  Or down lower so hat and top of hat is inside the painting.  Like they did at Painting with a Twist in Picture below.

So as you see they put there head down a bit lower.  I also didn't make my head quite as big.  I had it smaller and kept making it bigger and bigger.  But it still never got as big as theres did. lol

Next paint your hat and scarf on.   I as you can see chose to make mine look like a Yarn crochet fuzzy hat.  I mixed purple and white by taking a medium size flat brush and tipping the left side of the flat brush in white and the right side in purple.  Then dabbing it on.  NOT swiping.

My hat kind of well seemed to get bigger and bigger because it just doesn't look like theres.  But now I see there head was wider.  I like mine a lot though.  The Teacher teaching didn't teach us the blue shading on the face.  I see that now and wish I had noticed it then on the wall example.

I wasn't real thrilled with so much body and thought it needed something so I added more scarf.  The Teacher said to use white shading above the fold in the had but I took my Purple and lightened it with white.  I like it better.  Or think I do.  lol.  

I then added my mouth and snow.  And a little shading on scarf in a circle to look like it is tied in a not.  Up close i didn't' think I did such a good job.  But in this picture it looks good.  So I am proud of myself.

Now in the pic below if you look all the way to the right at the painting on the wall it has a tongue inside the mouth showing.  I was going to attempt that but changed my mind.  She did not teach the mouth.  I added that after seeing the one on the wall off to the side.

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Hope you enjoyed this painting.  I have another that was done before this one but have to find my photos I took.  Happy Holidays to you.

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Darby Box Haul with Mickey Jo

My First Darby Box

This was so much fun

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Goodwill Haul

So much fun shopping at our local Goodwill.  Check out my

craft haul.

Goodwill is an awesome place to get some neat items you can remake into

beautiful Home Decor.

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Deer Decor Discovered

I found the neatest thing the other day while shopping at Hobby Lobby.  I was there buying things for a baby shower I'm helping to give at the end of March.  See this one is  for a Baby Boy due at the end of April.  But it will be a little different.  I will tell you more about it in my next post.

One thing I can tell you is Mommy & Daddy to be want everything for baby to be in Mossy Oak Camo.  Now if you don't know what that is I will try and explain.  Oh wait I have a better idea.  Let me show you something with that design.

Here is 2 different examples for you to know what I am talking about.  Bet some of you never knew there was 2 different kinds of camo designs.

Ok now for my find.  

 Light Switch 

                                                            Door Knob

                 Drawer Handle Front

Back of the Handle

I think these were about $7.00 each

Then the best part of all.  They have the full alphabet so you can spell anything that you want.

You can find these by doing a search on Hobby Lobby.  Here is a link you can check out.

Hobby Lobby

Well I did a search for Deer Antler Decor and hardly brought up anything.  But I then put in Antler Decor and quite a bit came up.  Lamps, Decor, Mirrors and more.  Click on Antler Decor below to go directly to the items I found.

Antler Decor

Now babies are quite small and to me why not start them out at kids size hunting decor.  So I found this adorable bedroom decor called Willow.

I found this after a lot of searching on Amazon.  

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