I am a Child of God

My friend Amanda gave me the vinyl saying for Josie's babyshower WAY back in September and I made the sign sometime in January or February and I finally hung the sign a few days ago. I'm such a slacker! You can't really tell in this picture (because it was taken with my phone) but the vinyl is a fun magenta color, just like the frames and clock and various other things I bought to decorate Josie's room with. So far this and the clock are the only things that I've hung up. But soon I will finish. I also had Amanda cut one in blue for Peter's room and the sign is chilling in my office/craft room. 

For both Peter's and Josie's signs I found the already cut MDF boards in the $0.51 bin at the Home Depot. All I needed to do was sand, clean then paint them. I painted 2 or 3 coats of the white paint on each side of the board because MDF soaks the paint right up. I used a low nap roller and satin latex paint. Then I used my laser level as a guide to get the letters on straight and just stuck it on. There are two sawtooth hangers on the back to hang it up. SO easy! SO happy to finally have at least one of them hung up.

Picture Frames

I went to the Goodwill today and found a bunch of fun picture frames for a picture gallery wall. I've been wanting to do one of these for a while but there weren't any publicly available walls in my house other than my hallway and I didn't want to put it there. I did find two empty walls perfect for pictures when I painted and rearranged my office. Anyway, I was really excited to find so many nice frames for so cheap, most of the frames were either $2.99 or $1.99 and a couple were the tag color of the week so they were half price. They all need to be cleaned up and I'm going to spray paint them all a nice brown color. I haven't decided what pictures I want to put in the frames yet but I am going to include some other decor items as well. As nice as some of the artwork is in the frames it's all going to go away. I do want to find a few larger frames too, I may have to thrift shopping again soon to find more frames. We'll see how it goes.

Flower Pens

I got the supplies to make my craft night flower pot pens WAY back in January and I finally got around to making them Friday night. I got red, blue and black ink pens and made each pen match a flower. So all the yellow flowers are blue, the pink flowers are black and the green flowers are red. I still need to get some glass beads to go in the bottom of the vase but for now it's just fine. I think it really helped that I have a newly rearranged and organized office/craft room because I've been inspired/motivated to get previously started projects done. :)

I used a clear square vase instead of a clay pot

All the pretty flowers