Instant Artwork

Now that Olive is old enough to color without eating the crayons it's one of her favorite things to do! I have all of these little canvas that I bought before for another project and didn't finish. Well, I found a way to use one of them! Simple kid art.

You just need some cute ribbon, glue, a canvas and media of your choice. In our case (where paint is still pretty messy) we just used regular crayons.

After she colored the canvas, I just glued the ribbon all around to look a little more finished.

easy peasy!

Fabric Art

So, we have this empty wall in our house above a new Ikea shelf we got to help store Olive's toys.  It needed something big and colorful.  I love Amy Butler Fabric, and thought it would be a great way to display it by using it as the color in the room!

Here is the empty wall before...

I got a piece of wood at Home Depot the size I was looking for. (I don't know how big it is, I just eyeballed it:)

To keep the pattern going upright, I had to cut the fabric in half and sew two pieces together.

Then just an easy attachment with the, oh so useful, staple gun....

And here it is! I love it! It totally works for the space and was pretty thrifty.   $10 for the wood and $16 for the fabric.

I liked it so much that I used leftover fabric and an OLD BOX! to make a smaller one for the basement stairway in the sunroom.

Here's the box/fabric picture.  I think I will do another one below it in a different Amy Butler fabric that I ordered...