I've taken a hiatus from the Quiet Book
at present, to do a quick project for my little man. We had been
planning on having our two kidlets share a bedroom, so I had not spent
any time preparing a nursery, as it was already set up.
However...things
do not always go to plan. My poor darling daughter happens to take
after me, and apparently just cannot sleep with Mr T in her room, even
when he is happily (albeit noisily) asleep. We discovered this after a
night of madam lying awake crying out 'Mumma, Mumma, Mumma, baby
squeaking a little bit!' OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, until I finally
gave in and moved him into the bassinet in the loungeroom!
So...we
have moved the little man into a tiny room of his own, which just
happened to already have pale blue walls and blue curtains - appropriate
for a little boy, right? But of course, I just had to do some
decorating! There is not a lot of wall space in there, but I wanted to
brighten things up a bit. When our daughter was born, my hubby did a
lovely painting for her with her name spelled out in stars in the night
sky. I wanted to do a name piece for our boy.
I've always loved buttons, and have quite a collection. I have been
eying off some button art on Pinterest for a while, so it was the
logical choice for a name plaque for Mr T. I printed out some letters
in a font I liked, covered a canvas in white fabric, and set up the
buttons as I liked, before carefully gluing them in place.
It
was a little fiddly, and I was totally paranoid that Miss E would bump
the canvas when the buttons were placed correctly, but before they were
glued...but thankfully we managed to avert any such disaster (though
there were a few close calls!). Finished product hanging on the wall
within 24 hours :)
Looks gorgeous Candy! I used some buttons to make cushions for my mum last year and think I used a similar (same?) font. Love your choice of colours too. Reminds me of the hungry caterpillar. Hope you're all going well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rach, I think the font was Bookman Old Style or something like that. I know what you mean about the hungry caterpillar!
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