Updating CJ's Room

Hello!

I have returned from my trip to Pennsylvania. My baby brother is now a high school graduate. Incredible! The five days I was there flew by. Aside from eating out, Six Flags, shopping, family time, and staying up way too late, we managed to get CJ's new "college" room done. He was so surprised! It was definitely a team effort and totally worth it.

I traveled up to PA with all the crafts I had put together for his room. I'll admit, I forgot to take pictures of everything. But I did get some pictures!

Painted "E S U" letters for his college. 

We put them up on the wall with command strips and they looked great!

It's amazing what you can do with a blank canvas and some paint.

Making this made me want to make more! Anyone need some letter canvases?!

Check out my Etsy shop! https://www.etsy.com/listing/153669749/hand-painted-wooden-canvas-letter

Another canvas I worked on. I'm really happy how it came out.

(Although honestly, it was kind of time consuming/a pain!).

Overall I'm really happy with how everything turned out! Now I'm back in Florida and back to reality. Why do vacations always go by so fast? :( Can't wait to go back again!

Silhouette Collage

My brother just turned 18 this month and he'll be graduating high school in a week and a half (I'm still in denial). With all these changes, my mom and I decided it's probably time to re-do his room. Nothing too fancy; we're just re-arranging current furniture, buying a few new things, and changing out the decor. He'll be attending ESU for college so we thought the school colors (red and black) would be a good color scheme to work with.

Because I'm more of a crafter than a spender, I have been trying to come up with ideas of things to make for his room versus buy. I've come up with a few ideas that I'm currently in progress with and will post throughout the week. For now, my first completed project was this silhouette collage.

I think it looks great! The best part? It cost me $0!

What I did was find a free collage maker online (I used Fotor, but there are plenty of others!). I picked sports silhouettes and organized them how I wanted. I uploaded a picture of his school's logo (you can use any picture you want or even multiple pictures!). I changed the background color to red to go with the color scheme. Once I was satisfied, I saved a copy to my computer and uploaded it to Walgreens Photo online. I used Walgreens because I had a free 8x10 print, but any retailer would work (or you can print at home!). Within the hour, I picked it up from Walgreens, took it home, and put it in this old frame I already had. Voila!

Picture (created with Fotor) - $0
Printing (Walgreens coupon) - $0
Frame (already owned) - $0

That's my kind of project!

Stay tuned for more posts on other projects I am working on for my brother's room!