Ever since we moved into this house four years ago, whenever I go into the living room, I get the feeling that we just recently bought it. Everything seemed very sparse and icy. So this weekend, I decided that enough was enough and threw the family into a redecorating frenzy. We had about six spots on the wall that needed pieces, so we used what we had, and in two places, we made our own. This is what we came up with:
Of course, that’s a silhouette of Button. I took a picture of her profile, blew it up at Walgreens, cut it out carefully, then I placed the cut out on top of a canvas that I had covered with remnant fabric and then just filled it in with black paint. The bow was one that I… um… borrowed from Button’s extensive collection. I’m SO pleased with how this turned out! I’ve always wanted to try something like this, and I’m really happy that I ran with it.
This one was a little more time consuming to make! We glued the crayons down and melted them with a hairdryer until we got the drips to where we wanted them. Then we added the flowers. Done, and done. I’ve seen this done a lot around the web recently, and it seemed perfect for our needs. We made two of these and it took a whole evening!
I’m really happy with the outcome and I’m really glad we decided to do as much of this ourselves as possible.
