Handmade Nursery: Wall Art Continued

I got on a roll yesterday and painted 2 more pieces for the future nursery. Here is the "g" that I was painting the other day. I used a canvas board for that one so I just need a frame to put it in. I have been in love with the state art for awhile now so I made one for the baby using a wrapped canvas. I painted around the sides so I'm just going to hang that one up on the wall as is. I have one more wrapped canvas I purchased so I might make an Indiana one too as most of our family is either in Indiana or Kansas. One of these days I'll get around to making a whole outline of the United States and put hearts all over it where all of our family lives to hang in the main part of the house.

I used another canvas board, so this one will need a frame too. The fabrics to the left are the three I made crib sheets out of so I pulled the star shape from the orange and green sheets. There's a little peak of the adorable fox on the polka dot fabric. I have more things planned for him!

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7 Questions #4

Doing something a little different today. I'm answering and linking up with Gentri Lee's 7 questions!

1. What is your favorite color TO WEAR? Definitely green. I'm always drawn towards green clothes in the store.

2. You are given the choice between visiting every country and landing on the moon. Which would you choose? Visiting every country. There are so many places on this earth that I've never seen and I probably will never be able to see in my lifetime.
3. What's your favorite animal and why? Dogs, but not just any dogs, I love mutts! I love how each and every one of them is different in looks and personality. 
4. You are forced to do one of the following, which would you choose? Sky dive, scuba dive, or this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B36Lr0Unp4 Oh my gosh that's the craziest swing I've ever seen, extremely scary but it would have to be that! At least you're attached to something. I couldn't handle sky diving and I can't swim!
5. You are given the chance to go back in time. Which era would you visit? I would go back to a time when everyone dressed classy even if you didn't have money. When blue jeans weren't the staple thing to wear and no one wore flannel Pjs pants out in public. I see so many pictures of my grandparents in suits and dresses and both were poor families but they looked classy.
6. If you had the power to remove one thing (ie: flies, mosquitos, junk food) from the earth for good- what would it be? Chiggers!!! If it wasn't for those darn chiggers I could see myself living in Kansas again where I grew up. (I forget not everyone even knows what chiggers are so in case you don't just imagine your itchiest mosquito bite and multiply it by ten!! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002309/)
7. What is one thing you've learned from Pinterest that made you think "GENIUS"! Putting your sheets in sets inside the matching pillow case was a big "GENIUS" moment for me. No more searching for the matching set! http://pinterest.com/pin/103231016428126479/ (Honest to goodness and completely ironic that I wrote this post last night and it's the same thing Gentri thought was genius!)

And here is my required "funny" photo of myself. I was going to post the 7 questions last week but couldn't find a funny photo of myself. Even though my husband is the photographer, I'm always the one that has the camera taking family snapshots so I'm not in a lot of pictures. I finally found this one and it's funny to me because Nick caught me laughing and having fun at the park with our daughter. And I wouldn't ever admit I went down the curly slide.

Handmade Nursery: Wall Art

I made up my mind over the weekend that I wasn't going to wait until baby has a nursery to start on art for the walls. I have a vision in my head of a collage wall of different pieces. Some will be painted on canvas, some will be printed artwork and there has to be at least one big painted wooden letter in there too. Since we finalized our baby name choices over the weekend and they both start with G, this was the piece I started with. It is completely ironic that we ended up with names starting with the same letter again. When we were trying to come up with names for L, the boy name also ended up starting with L. We have had the boy's named picked out for some time but were still struggling with the girl's name this time around. I heard the name over the weekend and knew that was it and so did Nick. And it was again completely unintentional that it also starts with a G! I am so excited and relieved to have baby names picked out now that I'm 31 1/2 weeks along.

Handmade Nursery: Giant Ric Rac Baby Blanket

I've gotten a little relief from the spring allergies thanks to some cooler, more appropriate March weather. I pulled out another baby project that has been cut waiting for me to sew and finished it up. I used THIS tutorial with some Snoopy flannel that I've leftover from when L was a baby and paired it with a solid yellow flannel from JoAnn's and some super cute giant ric rac that I found at Hobby Lobby.