Mobiles

This Monday's Made It Monday project is delayed due to a baby with a fever and an exhausted Mom.  I am so close to being done with my project....so excited.

Sean and I made a list of things we need to get done before the new baby arrives.  o.ver.whelmed.  Of course, I am only interested in the pretty things and not in the more practical things.  I have been looking at mobiles.

I know there are all these expensive motorized mobiles that play music and flash lights.  Something about those feels unnecessary to me.  Maybe they are magic and my life would be better if I had one but I am probably not going to get one.  For B I got a cute dinosaur mobile made of stuffed felt dinosaurs from Etsy.  It's toast at this point because once B could stand and reach it...well, the dinosaurs became separated from the mobile.

Here are few cute mobiles on Etsy.

I like all the colors and varying shapes of this mobile.

I think this is a wall hanging more than a mobile to hang above the crib but I love it.  It is so stinking cute.

 Something about this mobile is absolutely sweet.  The colors, the shape of the elephants and the fabric used on the ears.

I love the shape of these owls.  You'll see an owl mobile at the bottom which I think is sweet but I am a little tired of that owl shape.  These owls look kind of sly.  

I like the silhouette idea of this one but I wish it had color!

 Cute little owls with lots of color.  Adorable.

I might attempt to make a mobile...add it to the list.  I have come across a few DIY mobiles that would be fun to try.  Now to just find those projects I came across.  I wish I could make adorable felt critters.  Maybe one day.

Made it Monday: Baby's Room Window

Brady will soon be sharing a room with a baby sister and I have been working out what I am going to do with his room to make it more gender neutral.  Currently the colors are green, blue and ivory/neutral.  I haven't done too much with his room but his window treatment and bedskirt (made by my Mom are/were blue, green and ivory)  I intend to keep the green and ivory and add something else to make it suit both a boy and girl.  

googled fish scale pattern and found this cool grate cover

My favorite pattern is the fish scale pattern and I have wanted to use it.  I also love texture.  Instead of buying a fabric with the pattern printed on it I have wanted to make something with more texture.  After I decided to use it on a window I had to figure out how to do it so it wasn't too gaudy/tacky.  Last week I finally figured out what I wanted to do!

You can see the different fabrics best in this picture

I used terry cloth, fleece and felt fabric and cut them into 4 1/4 inch circles.  Using Fabri-tac I glued the circles to a cloth that I marked off to get the design straight.  I wish you could tell the different fabrics in the pictures..but in person it creates a really cool texture that is better than I expected.  I tend to put off projects that I come up with on my own because there is a high probability that it will suck and I will be disappointed by how much time it took and didn't come out like I hoped.  It didn't happen this time!  It turned out better than I envisioned and I am so thrilled with it.  Thank goodness because it was a lot of work.  

one last picture