Getting Crafty

This weekend it finally hit me that we are getting a baby next month! That's right..... next month! So, I was ready to start getting some decor on the walls, and I decided exactly what I wanted to do. Now...how to do it? This is why you make friends with people who can do things that you can't! I called in reinforcement because this girl just doesn't have that crafty bone like my mother does. I ordered an awesome picture frame from Creative Memories (there's my plug!) that is magnetic. When I create a digital scrapbook page, I can change it out easily and quickly using the magnetic frame, and it looks amazing! My idea is to create a 12 x 12 page each month of Natalie's life and change it out in the frame. Once I take one month's page down, I slide it right into her album showing the first year of her life! Pretty cool, right? I know you are all jealous! I'm efficient for once in my life. At least this is the plan anyway. Ask me how that is going in about a month or two=)

The reinforcement comes in when I called my friend, Stephanie, to go to Hobby Lobby with me and find some letters for the nursery wall. There we sat in the middle of the floor of the scrapbook aisle. We had papers spread out all around us, along with a few ideas of letters I might use. Stephanie is very good at coordinating colors and ideas so she just started grabbing patterns and colors and it was awesome. I, of course, decided on the ones with purple in it, along with the green. I decided to decoupage the white letters with those scrapbook pages. We found what we needed and we were off!


Steph had to leave, and I was dying to get started but didn't have a clue how to do this. Thanks to the Internet, I figured it out but still wasn't confident in my skills, so I called for more reinforcement. Heather! She had decoupaged before so I called her up and she was over with Sonic drinks in a flash! Now you know why I called her!=)


We decided we needed to bring in the steady hand of an engineer to help us!


AFter 3 hours, a bowl of cookies and cream ice cream, and a couple of chocolate chip cookies, we were proud of our work!


I am pretty excited to say that I have a piece of art in my baby's room! Here is the finished product! What do you think?