Mrs. C Does Stuff

Today, I'm going to show you one of the projects I completed for our daughter's nursery.  I'll share a few more nursery projects with you later.  This one is a bow holder I made for the nursery. Honestly, I took a gamble on the Little Miss.  When we found out she was a girl and we started putting together the nursery.  I just had a feeling she would have lots of hair and would need something to hold all of her bows.  The Little Mister was born with a lot of hair, and the same was true for Mr. C and I when we were babies.  How could she not have a head full of hair?  So I took a risk and made this bow hanger for her closet door before she was born.  This was one of those projects I knew I would eventually add to the blog. I used an unfinished wooden plaque, an unfinished chipboard letter (slightly smaller than the plaque), four strips of ribbon (cut a yard long each), two six inch long pieces of ribbon, two paint colors, a strip of Velcro,...

Have you ever heard people say that assembling Ikea furniture will test your relationship?  Well, I have, and that is certainly true.  Good news, we survived the test! We took pictures as we embarked on this adventure. This tutorial is meant to provide a visual supplement to the Ikea instructions. It in no way serves as a replacement for the actual instruction booklet that came with the product.  The instruction booklet has no verbal instructions, just illustrations, so you may find this helpful. The best thing to do when starting on a project like this is to lay out all of the pieces grouped together by likeness. This will help you count to verify you have all pieces necessary to put together the furniture, but also helps to identify the pieces in the instructions. Not all companies are kind enough to label the parts and pieces as they are labeled in the instructions.  The first step was to lay out all of the legs, known as pieces L1, L2, R1 and R2. Then s...

Here is another wooden art project I wanted to do for the nursery.  I found this one on Pinterest too.  Here is a picture of the Pinterest inspiration.  It is from the Make It & Love It blog, a link to it can be found here . For this one, I used large flat cardboard letters from Hobby Lobby and a 24" x 24" piece of 1/4 inch thick Oak sheet from Lowe's.  We decided against using the beadboard as shown in the original picture because the sheets of beadboard were so big.  We did not have another use for the remainder of it if we were to use it, so we chose another wood product. Mr. C was so nice to spray paint the board black for me.  I used the same white acrylic paint used on the first wooden art, found here , to paint the cardboard letters.  Once everything was painted, we let it all dry for a day. Then, I placed the letters on the black wooden square to determine placement.  With a hot glue gun,...

I really enjoyed the book and movie "The Help".  I especially loved how the character Abilene Clark chanted the mantra "You is kind, you is smart, you is important" to the young Mae Mobley.  This is such a positive message to pass on to children to build their confidence.  There are so many negative forces children encounter outside the home, it's good to surround them with positive messages they can internalize in the home.  That is what I want to do for our son. Ever since I read that book, I thought, "I am going to tell my own children that same thing".  However, I wanted to teach them the mantra, making a few grammatical corrections.  Instead of saying "You is", I say "You are". I decided to create art using this message for our son's nursery.  I found a wooden plaque, wooden letters and used acrylic paint to create it.   First, I laid the letters on the plaque to get an idea of how I wanted to place them.  Have ...