Stencil suckiness

I have been trying to stencil flowers in my girls' room. Its not the quality of the stencil thats the problem. Its my paitn colour (a raspberry that require BILLIONS of coats), my textured walls, and probably my technique. Here's whats been going on.

I followed all the directions:

I have 8 flowers done....16-20 to go.  Stenciling has been added to the same list as wallpaper and vinyl flooring.

I'm loving fancy designer wallpapers but I like my wall covering cheap and easy (is it juvenile that when I typed that I was thinking "like your mom!") Wallpaper is a major commitment. I am STILL peeling wallpaper from our house (forest green with gold griffins, I don't remember that ever being in style) and at $90-150/roll its not budget friendly.

Then I discovered wall stencils. I know what you're thinking.



http://www.stencilease.com

although I don't know why they would want me tocredit them for that fugliness

But baby times are a changin. Check out the gorgeousness you can do now!

http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/

I'm going to use this flower in the girls room...stay tuned for more details!

Playroom Plans

See this pile of ugliness? It’s being transformed into a playroom. A playroom with DOORS that I can SHUT. So hopefully when people pop-in I can just shut the playroom doors instead of apologizing for the fact that my living room looks like Santa’s bag exploded (His bag of TOYS. Pervert.)

The girls bedroom is going to be pink Pink PINK so I’m going multi-colour in the playroom. My inspiration is their existing toys/furniture.  We are painting the walls white on top and bamboo leaf by Behr on the bottom (G has informed me that the green is ugly and the white took too many coats). Here’s my inspiration board using items we already own.

Furniture and rug from Ikea. Play kitchen from kidkraft . Illustrations by Katie Moon. Paint by Behr.

Now I need some crap accessories to tie it all together. I have been collecting yard sale frames to paint bright pink. Some are going to frame the fabu Katie Moon prints. And some are going to be converted into fabric covered bulletin boards like this one from Bloggin with Bobbi

Curtains? I'm like this bargain beauties from Walmart.

Ikea has some cute curtains too. They also have some fun fabrics. Maybe its time to dust off my sewing machine and make some curtains!



If I go the DIY route there are a bajillion great fabrics I could use. Look at these fun ones I found on etsy.

 

Family Fabrics



Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants

So many choices!



Playroom Inspiration

My inspiration for the playroom is the girls toys. Pink Red Green Orange! While searching etsy for some art to put in the playroom I came across a FABULOUS artist Katie Moon. She has a blog where she gives away one free children's illustration a day http://oohmoon.com/ . After 24 hours you can buy them (super cheap!)  I fell in love with the fairy tale series and my awesome brother (SHOUT OUT TO PSACK!) bought it for the girls

http://oohmoon.com/2011/01/girl-fairy-tales-the-whole-pack/

Since the girls are so bored when we are at the house working my goal is to get the playroom in usable condition so they have somewhere to chill while we clean/paint/scrap/sand.