PLAYROOM

                                                           

I am so excited to post pictures of my girls' playroom.  It has kind of been evolving for the past 6 months. Some things worked and some things didn't. First I painted the walls, with the help of my best friend Michela.  Then we had fun with Michela's Cricut Machine and photo laminater making letters for the alphabet wall and numbers for a big clock. Well, the clock lasted for awhile but then, just recently, I wanted to do something different with that wall.  Lately, my girls' artwork has been filling up the doors of my refrigerator.  I had to do something about it, and the artwork needed a proper display.  So, down came the clock and up went an art work display.  I love how it turned out. I reused the numbers from the clock,  and put them on the wall above the window in a line - 1 through 10.  It's cute to watch my 3 year old look up there and start counting.  So here's the break down of what I did in the room.



THE ALPHABET WALL is my most favorite part of the play room.  I used the same paper throughout the whole room to keep the colors consistent.  Its just a tablet of scrapbooking paper.  I loved the colors and the patterns of this paper.  I found pics on line of many different alphabet walls.  Most of them used wooden letters or other types of heavy mediums to create letters.  It was all beautiful, but all the ideas were also really expensive to recreate.  So that's when I got the idea of using a Cricut machine to cut out different sizes of  letters.  This particular font has the letter with a slightly larger one behind it to give it a shadow effect.  I had fun picking out two different complimenting papers to make each letter.  Laminate, cut and attach the letters to the wall with Elmers Tack.  VIOLA! A beautiful art collage! The table is a $8 end table from IKEA, stools are from IKEA as well.  (We already had the pink chair - it went with an old little tykes kitchen.) The buckets and bar on the wall are also from IKEA.  They store all the crayons, colored pencils and markers - a great art station!




TOY STORAGE
We used the same scrapbooking paper that went on the wall for the alphabet and scrapbooking stickers to label each bin, an laminated the signs.  The signs are attatched with adhesive velcro.  This makes it easy to switch things around or to change the signs. The shelf and bins are from Target. (The labeling, creating, and the velcro idea was all my friend Michela's handiwork and ideas. She's a pro at organizing!)







PLAYROOM RULES
My friend Nicky, who is a talented Graphic Designer, typed up the Playroom Rules Subway sign for me.  I love this!  I dont even know who originally wrote these rules, but we saw this on a websight and we tweaked it a little to fit the needs of my family and then I sent it off to print. Easy shmeasy!  Yeah right! Only easy when you are my friend Nicky, because I could have never of done this on my own!

ART DISPLAY
This is the most recent addition to the playroom. This was really fun to make.  I painted plain wooden clipboards and wooden craft picture frames.  I saw this idea of using clipboards on a Pinterest search. and then tweaked the rest of it with my own ideas. I put each kids photo in the frames above their own clipboard and now I have a beautiful place to hang their artwork. The white wooden letters are from Micheals.  I used the Elmers Tack to hang the wooden letters and the picture frames. But the clipboards, being heavier needed nails- don't like nails in walls!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

I reused the numbers from the clock and put them over the window. Just cute and simple. The bunting banner is triangles cut from the same scrapbooking tablet and strung on yarn.  My goal is to crochet a bunting one of these days. The wreath was a hand made gift from my friend Nicky.  The word PLAY is strung in the inside. (Sorry the pic is so horrible.  It's from my phone.)