I’m still trucking along on a few last projects for Little Cutie’s new room {is this the longest, most drawn out room reveal in the history of the world, or what?}.
In an effort to reduce, reuse and recycle {doesn’t that sound so much more lovely than simply admitting I’m being kinda chintzy here?}, I wanted to breathe a little new life into some old things instead of just buying new.
Because of the placement of the window in this attic room we’ve opted not to do a window treatment. Between the small wall space and the petite gallery we put up, it just looked cluttered whenever I hung something above the window. Since privacy isn’t really an issue up on the third floor and there was already a simple roller shade we decided to just keep that as is. But you know me and my glue gun ~ we get a little itchy on the trigger finger sometimes.
In digging through my crafting stash I came across this little find:
Totally perfect for what I had in mind. However, I’m going to confess to you that I know I bought this ribbon with the specific idea that I would sew it in rows across a plain diaper cover to make “fancy pants” for Little Cutie. Um, yeah….she turned 7 back in January and that never happened, but I swear I’m not a hoarder for having five different colors of this stuff still stashed in my supplies!
A quick bead of hot glue and voila!
And up close ~
The second project was with my new Silhouette machine Cute MIL sent for my birthday last month. I took a plain, old toy box we purchased from Target many years ago {part of the knock off Pottery Barn line} and added a big script monogram. The whole thing took me about 15 minutes from start to finish, including downloading a free font!
Best part of this project: Cute Husband telling me “This Silhouette thing is kinda cool!”
that looks great with that ruffle! i bought ribbon a while back to do the same thing to my roller shades, but i had forgotten about it. thanks for the refresher and the reminder about how cute it could look!
Hi, it is me from the bargain hunting board…not sure if you recognize me!
I will admit I stalk your board and wished I lived closer so we could get our craft on! Love all your ideas for personalizing your home!
Love the ruffle…gonna look for some to spruce up a lamp shade.
Can you tell me where to download that free font for the monogram? I would love to do that with my silhouette on a canvas for my daughter’s room.
It’s called Monogram KK – here’s where I downloaded it from for free!
http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/12545
I downloaded the same font, Monogram KK. Any tips on how to make it bolder?? I have tried copying and then pasting and then combining to make it thicker. Any ideas??