baby boy is waking up at the crack of dawn....not good for mommy, so we decided to get him some black out curtains. i picked up a set from jcpenney by linden street, but they didn't have it in my length. so, i had to break out the sewing machine that my friend Karie got back to me (since i didn't bother to go get it myself) and hem them up.
we got a 4 peg white wooden hanger from lowes, and our friend doug cut it in half.
i wanted it to look somewhat rough and still like a ship since his room is themed nautical.
lastly, i used a pb idea and put rope through the grommets to hang off the pegs.
i got some cute boat things from hobby lobby,
and we were off to longer sleeping naps and mornings!
so i finally had a free moment. here they are in his room. see the previous post for all the details. :)
i have had this idea for 10 months now...it finally got done tonight. i had two empty shadow box frames in baby boy's room.
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there they are
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my plan was to make a scrapbook out of pictures and things he had worn or loved and tack them into the frame.
so i went to the craft store and got a piece of foam board for $1.59 and cut it to fit into the back of the frames.
once it was in there, i took the 8x10 shots of baby boy and used nails to fasten the four corners. i didn't want to glue it onto the foam board and get a bubbly look, but i also couldn't just frame the picture because the frames were bigger than 8x10. the nail actually looks very boyish and i love the way it turned out.
you can see it there in the corner. here is the first one with the picture completely on it.
that was baby boy in the hospital....a memorable moment, right? so i had saved his hat, and i used thumb tacks on the inside to tack the actual hat into the blank space. when it is on the wall, it will have a sort of 3-d effect. i LOVE it. i had originally planned to trim out the white spaces in ribbon, but i love the stark contrast of the white and the picture and the frame. so it will stay just like this.
then since i did a hat in that picture, i decided to go with memorable hat moments in baby boy's life. of course, the first time at the beach is perfect, so the second frame has his beach shot in black and white and his blue hat.
wow....what an awesome look. i will hang them up tomorrow morning in his room, and take some pictures to show you on the next post.
