A growth chart for my growing boys!

So, I've been wanting something to keep track of my growing little ones for awhile, but wanted something, cute for their room that I knew would last! I was inspired by a friend of mine who used a 4 foot piece of wood on her kids wall, so I thought I'd do the same thing and use their colors that we used on their room wall!

Got my 4 foot piece of wood from Lowe's for like $5 or something. Super cheap. I taped the different sections..

Then I painted it.

Then taped it again, and painted the other sections gray.

Then I cut out 5 squares of airplane scrapbook paper, all the same size.

And then mod podged the papers on the different parts of the board, and as you can see, Ayden tried to help me paint! ;p

Here it is after the modpodge and touch ups..

I got these 2 little wood pieces to glue onto the growth chart from Hobby Lobby for like .70 cents a piece!

Here it is after gluing the pieces on and writing the boys name with a white paint pen.

Then I measured the wood to add the inch and foot markers!

And here's the finished product! I don't have it hung up on the wall yet, but will post a photo of it when the hubs gets to it!

Spicing up the light switch!

So I've been working on a project for the boys room, and got this cute scrapbook paper for it, and had some left over! I figured I would put it to good use by adding some flair to their light switch cover!

I mod podged the light switch and carefully placed the paper on there, cutting off the excess. I then modpodged the top of it to secure it.

I used D's razor blade thinymabobber to cut the holes for the switch part, and just popped the screws back in for the other holes..

and voila! Not perfect, but it only took like 5 minutes! LOL

Looks way cute in their airplane room, I think!

Just be careful that you make sure it's *not* wet before screwing it back in the wall! The paper could tear a bi, and you might have to redo it...ahh yes, I am talking from experience!

But that matters not, because my 4 year old Caleb still came up to me and said, "oh Momma, it looks great!" Ahhh so sweet. :)

Before & After: toy/schoolroom edition

We moved in the house in late September. This is how the toy room first looked as we were going through boxes. Scary!! Needless to say we got rid of some toys..

And then got the toy room set up!

There was fairly good order in there, but it didn't look like a boys toy room to me! And we had other things in mind..

We finished the toy room the same time frame as the boys room was in late October, I just never took pictures of it until now!

Here's the door and what you see looking in.

Yep, that's a chalkboard! :) We painted the bottom with chalkboard paint, and picked up a piece of chairrail at Lowes. Darryl installed it and there we have it! the boys love it.

Here's a close up of the train my mom made for Caleb to help with his blends in school, too cute!

Here's a closeup of their bulletin board filled with their crafts and papers.

Going left now, there's a window and then the bed.

And there's their diner and closet door.. Mimi & PaJ got those airplanes and clouds to put on the wall, and they are able to be written on with chalk too!

And here's the closet! I plan on getting hooks to hang the nets up. the top stores little toys like playdough & k'nex.

Here's the wall that our dry erase board is on. It is in between the closet door and door leading to the hallway.

Hope you enjoyed the before & after!

Decorative letters for the boys room..complete!

So, I have this friend, her name is Jackie. I've never actually met her in person, but we met through the mommy board we both joined before we had our first children. The funny thing is we both had our boys on the same day of the same year, and actually just hours apart! Anyway, I ended up buying my first DSLR from her, and learning alot about photography from her. She's a kind person who's always been willing to help anyone, really. So anyway, she's amazingly crafty. She repurposes things, sews, paints, you name it, she does it. We don't get to talk much anymore as we are both so busy, but I do keep up with her on her awesome blog. Yeah, you'll want to bookmark it, so just do it now! :) I"ve been wanting to do the boys letters for their names for the walls for quite some time, and she has an awesome tutorial on there for the letters! She has a lot of awesome tutorials for lots of things I want to do. I must get a sewing machine, and SOON!

SO..back to the letters.. I bought some inexpensive wood letters from Hobby Lobby, and painted them white. When they were dry, (and actually like over a month later because I had holidays in the middle of doing this) I traced out the letters onto scrapbook paper, and outlined 1/8 of an inch from the edge just like Jackie shows in her tutorial.

Can you see I had a little helper? :)

Then I put a layer of mod podge on the letters and carefully put the paper on top of the letters, and tried my best to keep them smooth and without bubbles! After they dried, I put a layer of mod podge on the top, and voila! They are done!

Now, I just have to add brackets to the back so I can hang them! Then I can finally show the before and afters of the boys room since we moved here! So look forward to that. :)

You can look here to see the amazing transformation she did in her little girls room! Thanks for the inspiration, Jackie!