Big Girl Mobile

I love to make crafts for my adorable niece. When my sister started talking about her plans for a big girl room for my niece my mind started working. I thought of the perfect big girl mobile to hang in her room.

My inspiration come from two place. First, when Courtney and I were shopping at Pottery Barn Kids we saw this beautiful mobile.

Pottery Barn Kids

And second, I found this beautiful picture on Pinterest.

Style Me Pretty

These mobiles were both perfect because they are feminine and bright with natural elements. It was also important that the mobile wasn't babyish and could be with my niece as she grew up.

I started my going for a trip to a local thrift store. I found the perfect lamp shade. I was worried that it might be too tiny, but I think that it ended up working for my project.

After I removed the fabric from the lamp shade I saw that it had lovely fabric wrapped around the top and bottom circles. I decided to keep this on my mobile.

I found a perfect flower punch for the mobile and punched out yellow and cream flowers to hang from the lamp shade.

Mr. Firefly had the great idea to hang the mobile from the tripod. This helped me as I put the flowers on the mobile. I used a needle and thread to attach the flowers to the lamp shade. I also got some glue and glued on some fake flowers to the lamp shade.

This was so easy and looks very cute. The lampshade cost $2.99, the flowers were $5.99 and I only used half of them. I was lucky to find some scrap paper for the flowers. This project couldn't have turned out better. 

Happy Crafting,

PS: Here's where we link up.

Gallery Wall Art

Mr. Firefly and I moved into our apartment almost two months ago and we're still trying to decorate it. We have run into a few problems because the place is a lot smaller than we thought with less storage and because it is a basement apartment. Yesterday I was lying in bed and staring at the wall. It looked very boring because there was nothing on it. What made it even more awkward was that there was no furniture on it. Have a look at what I mean (and yes that is my cat on the bed).

I looked on Pinterest for inspiration and here's what I found.

Heart Punch Valentine's Day Art

Gallery Wall

And so I set to work to make my bedroom look a bit better. I found an old picture frame and painted it black. Then I took a piece of white paper for my background and made a grid on it.

The next step was to make hearts. I decided to use our wedding hymn "Be Thou My Vision" instead of a book because I couldn't bring myself to cut pages out of a book. The Martha Stewart Heart Punch cut the perfect sized hearts for my project.

 I then glued the hearts to the grid.

 

And voila! A wonderful piece of art to hang on my wall.

 

My original plan was to get the frames on the wall before Mr. Firefly came home from work.  I then remembered how particular he is about hanging things perfectly level and measured exactly. So, he hung them for me. I am very pleased with the result.

This house picture was found at House Stuff Works. They have some wonderful free printables that you must go and see. 

Now I just need to figure out what to do with the rest of the bedroom. Any ideas?

 

Happy Crafting,

Kristin 

I linked up here: