E's Room

E's baby room was a hotch potch of hand me down's from her brother's room when he was a baby too. Girls are always a little ahead of the game so E took it upon herself at 15 months old to move into a grown up bed and so my biggest craft project to date, began.

So where to start? I loved the idea of red and pink together and my first idea I happened to stumbled across on someone's site....I am always surfing. Instantly I loved this artist's work and so it started with 3 tree pictures from Etsy by Angela Vandenbogaard and literally grew organically from there.

 This one above was called mother and Daughter and the one below Sisters.

 

I also wanted to thrifty so I could get what I wanted by either making things or finding little treasures so that E's room held lots of little secret stories to be shared.

I moved onto her bedding next. The handy thing about toddler beds is that they are a manageable size and pretty easy to run up sheets and bedding for. I had found a red flowery sheet in Value Village for $3 and it easily made a duvet cover and pillow case and left more fabric which I would use in later projects for bunting/banners, murals and a cushion.

My gran gave me this Habitat Lamp shade a few years ago, still in its original 1970's packaging and I didn't what to do with it until now. The theme was steering towards Japan and here I decided to add in my fascination with kokeshi dolls.

I designed an illustration of a kokeshi doll and did the 4 seasons as a theme and framed that above her bed.
Below is my fabric interpretation of the same doll in a denim mural trimmed with the fabric in her duvet.

I wanted to add a vinyl decal to E's wall and was going to design it myself when I came across Surface Flik on Etsy. They were so friendly and only out in Surrey. I loved this tree so I went with their design but they were able to send me the artwork so I could organise the colours and placement of them as I wanted it to be a 2 col print. It took me about 3 hours to get it all on the wall but well worth it.

The part of the room that had the most work was the mobile. The kids and I headed to the beach to collect some driftwood. We found a nice large stick which I smoothed over with a few sheets of fine sand paper. I then added felt butterflies and felted shapes onto fine embroidery thread and now they all move with the current of the air.

The felt stars and beads as well as the felt string I ordered from a little UK site I found called Blooming Felt. They had so much to chose from!

The bunting and the cushions were made and added....... then the room was complete.......for now.