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Master Bedroom Reveal - Small Changes Make a Huge Impact

Well, August has come and go and I am finally ready to reveal to you our master bedroom!

It's amazing how small changes can really make a huge difference in a room. How to make your room a master retreat

It was truly a team effort from my husband and I. I am so happy to be able to have his help. He has really come on board to help out more since his work schedule has loosened up a bit. It really helps in the completion of projects!

DIY Tufted Fabric Headboard: the Do's and Don'ts

In the process of making our master bedroom a real retreat, we decided we wanted a headboard. We looked for options to buy, but we had already spent a fair share in the bedroom and we wanted to be able to DIY one since it would be much more affordable then buying one.

Don't make these mistakes while creating your fabric headboard. Even includes printable instructions so you don't have to keep the post up.

There are TONS of tutorials out there for making a DIY Fabric Headboard, this is not one of them. I am going to walk you through some of the dos and don'ts for creating your own headboard. Since none of the tutorials seemed to run into any problems that we did, I wanted to share our experience and what we did to solve the problems we encountered. So learn from my mistakes and keep this handy when you decide to do your own.

Little Girl Nursery Gallery Wall

Several weeks ago, I asked my husband to put up the frames that I bought in our daughter's room. I took the time and planned out the placement and orientation of each frame and he hung them for me. Several weeks later, here I am just getting the frames filled.

Create a gallery wall for a little girl. This includes links to all of the print outs.

It was very hard to narrow down which prints I would use for the frames. I had a Pinterest board filled with ideas and needed to make some decisions.

You will see below where I got the prints from or if I made them myself. I printed all of the prints at Staples. They do a great job of accommodating sizing for your prints.

{from left to right}: Cute as a Button - {original} {my 5x7 print} | beYOUtiful | State Printables {all 50 states are included} | Twinkle Twinkle {printed and put on scrapbook paper} | Glitter Heart 'S' - cut on silhouette from glitter vinyl{inspiration not available anymore - tutorial to come} | You are Loved | ABC Printable {missing from the gallery - printable verse}

Visit these great places and print out some new ideas, whether you are sprucing up your current gallery wall or you are creating a new one.

Happy decorating!

DIY Mobile for Baby's Nursery

We were one of those odd couples that didn't want to know the gender of our baby. We thought that this was one of life's true surprises and we wanted to be surprised.We didn't do a gender reveal, we didn't even accidentally find out what we were having. {I only found out when my doctor accidentally told me at my 37 week appointment. Then he tried to cover it up. I didn't tell my husband.}

When our daughter was born, I decided I didn't want the gender neutral nursery that I had originally designed. She is a girl! I wanted to make it a "girly" space. We had moved her into her crib at 3 months old. Yes - I cried for a couple nights that she was in the very.next.room and not next to me. Anyway...we were looking around her nursery and found that it was not very colorful, not very appealing. We wanted to give her something fun and colorful to look at while she was laying in her crib. So I started scouring Pinterest and Etsy and find a mobile that I loved. I did! But I did not love the price tag. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands.

Here is the inspiration piece:

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My husband loved the look of this too, but wanted it to be more colorful and fuller. I agreed. So out to the store I went to buy colored paper, some embroidery hoops and yarn.

My Vision: This mobile with many more colors {randomly placed on purpose} and add 2 more layers to go inside of the mobile to make it fuller and longer.

Now I was to get to work.

I gathered the materials I would need first:

colored paper
2 inch circle punch
a sewing pin
fishing line
embroidery hoops
clear tape

I started by punching 2 inch circles with my punch. It was easier to fold the ends of the paper in toward the center so I got 2 circles with every punch. I started with these colors.

I took each one and poked a small hole with a sewing pin. {If you look closely, you can see I did that in the circles above.} I did not poke the hole directly in the center, I wanted some of them to look off-balance to help with the overall look of the mobile.

Then I cut each fishing line about 24". I strung each circle onto the fishing line. I tied a knot that the bottom and put the circle on, tied another knot a bit farther up, then dropped another circle. I did go in some sort of pattern, note above the randomly on purpose. I made sure that none of the lines had the same bottom or top color. I did this during nap time while watching TV. It became quite relaxing.

When I got a few strands I started to map out my plan to attach them to the embroidery hoops.

Colored circles on strands of fishing line

I placed 1 strand per inch on the embroidery hoop. The 12 inch hoop had 12 strands, the 8 inch hoop had 8 strands and the 4 inch hoop had 4 strands. I tied the fishing line around the inner hoop and then added a bit of clear tape to reinforce it. When all strands were tied on and I was happy with it, I tied

4 - 12" strands of fishing line to the inner hoop{this will be used to hang it up}. Again, reinforcing them with tape. Then, I put the outer layer of the hoop on and tightened as much as I could. I did this for all 3 hoops.

After all of the hoops were stranded, I got the last materials I would need.

yarn
hot glue gun

I started by layering my hoops. I had some holes, which I fully intended on filling. I used my doorway and taped the first 12" hoop up so it was as straight as I could get it. Then I held up the 8" hoop inside and moved it so I could see each strand of circles on the 8" hoop in between the strands on the 12" hoop. Then I tied the 8" hoop in place with the 4 - 12" strands of fishing line to the inner hoop. I did the same thing with the 4" hoop.

I then used my hot glue gun to wrap the grey yarn around the top. I put a dab of glue on one side of the hoop closure {where you tightened it} and secured the yarn. Then I started wrapping. I wrapped all the way to the other side, being sure to wrap my fishing line in there {it helped with reinforcing it even more than with just tape}. I added another dab of hot glue and secured the other end. I did this for all of the hoops.

Then, we hung it in her room. You could easily use a 3M Command Hook to hang this, but my husband wanted to make sure it didn't fall on her {the mobile is not heavy}. We had this hook laying around so he secured it to the ceiling. {You will also see that I decided to use yarn to attach it to the ceiling. That was a last minute decision :) You could definitely use the fishing line.}

Just for fun...a view from where Seraphina views it.

Full disclosure: I made this when Seraphina was about 3 months old {March}. I didn't have a blog at the time but I am excited to share this with you now :)

This is one of the first things she has to say "hello" to when she gets up in the morning or from naps. She is always trying to reach for it and loves to push it to make it move.

Did you make a mobile for your baby? If not, what did you DIY for your baby?