Room Reveal :: Under the Sea Kid's Room

Hello! I am excited to finally show you the FINISHED result of the under the sea room I did awhile back.

I already showed you the inspiration and some of the DIY projects here. 

Here is everything finally put together!

The room had a teeny, tiny little corner that we wanted to place a small, functional art center in. We found an old school desk and refinished it. Above it we hung a small curtain rod, cute shower curtain rings we found that matched our theme, and metal buckets we got from the dollar section at Target. Super easy! {not too mention, super cheap}



Tomorrow I am going to share with you my little self-made honey-do list that has been keeping me b.u.s.y around here!

Hope everyone is having a great week so far! I am officially doing the countdown for school myself :) {6days, 13hrs and counting!!!ha!}

xo,

Rachel

 

 

 

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Jungle Party :: DIY projects

Good morning!!

Today, I wanted to share with you some of the super simple diy projects I did to style the jungle themed baby shower I helped a friend throw. You may remember in the beginning of the inspiration phase, I listed some of the cheap and easy ideas I had to keep this party in budget. I ended up using a lot of them and throwing in some extras.

Project 1: Spray-painted Pastic Animals

I found these big guys at my local dollar store. The little guys that I used on the favor tins were purchased in a bunch at Joanns.

I picked out one can of blue and one of green {our two main colors} at my local hardware store. This was way more than enough. In fact, I had enough green to redo a current project I am working on ;)

I like to spray one side {wait to dry}, paint the other side {wait to dry} and then I stand them up and do the tops. Keep an eye out for the odd nooks and crannies (like underneath trunk) that are easy to miss.

You can use these gems in a ton of places! I used the small ones (in the pic on the left) for favors and the invites. The larger ones I used as decoration (top, right) and as place cards (bottom, right)-just add the name with some twine.

Best part? After you have already used these for the party, glue them to some wood or rocks and you have now have bookends for the nursery! Like these beauties:

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Project 2: Kraft Paper



You can find rolls of brown kraft paper in just about any big box store, but I got mine at (you guessed it) the dollar store. Just by adding it to ordinary boxes and stands, it automatically gave it a "safari/jungle" feel. You could stamp them to look like packages that have been sent from far away (read: Africa) or add pretty yarn, like I did above. Another great option {which I did A LOT} was to use burlap material. It's super cheap and can be found at any craft store. I loved the look so much, I even added them to the invitations:

Project 3: Printed Map

I simply googled "map of Africa" and found several that were great. I printed up the one that I liked the most and used it to line one of the tray of goodies I had. You could also use it with the kraft paper to wrap a stand or gift.

Project 4: Animal Crackers with Bag Toppers

Animal Crackers are the perfect (& most cost efficient) party favor there is for a jungle/safari themed party. The picture shown above shows it with the topper I created for my Etsy package, however you can easily create topper from scrapbook paper.

Hope you have an inspiring Monday!

xo,

Rachel



Happy Weekend

Happy Weekend!

Any guesses to what I've been up to??

xo,

Rachel



New to the Shop :: Jungle Party

Hello!

As promised Friday, here is the reveal to the jungle party I styled. You may remember the inspiration board that started the planning, shared here.

Hope you find a little inspiration :)

I had SO MUCH fun with this party!

Best part? This party is now available in my Etsy Shop !! {be sure to check out the invitations to see how amazing this party could look in pink and purple, here.}

I can't wait to show you some of the budget friendly DIY projects we did to create this party.... can you spy a few??

Happy Monday :)

xo,

Rachel

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Jungle Party Invitations

 I don't know about you, but I am one H.A.P.P.Y girl now that it is almost the weekend!! We have plans to cross of a couple more items off our summer bingo list, and maybe even *gasp* relax a little ;)

I had big plans to reveal the jungle party I did tonight, but good grief, I am up to my elbows in PHOTOS. Does anyone else take 135865 photos every time they have a party??

I did make a little headway, though, and here are the invitations that kick-started this event:

{{ PS- These are now available at my Etsy Store }}

Hope everyone has a splendid weekend!

xo,

Rachel

DIY :: Under the Sea Room

 Last week I showed the inspiration that I gathered (seen here ) while beginning a project for an "under the sea" themed room. Today, I wanted to show you some of the simple projects that we did to really make this room great.

Here's a reminder of what our inspiration board looked like:

The first thing we did was to tackle our inspiration dresser. I WISH that we had taken a before image, but you're really just going to have to use you imagination here! Think: ugly, old, and wooden dresser. Nothing special.....until we added a little bit of yellow paint:

We opted to go more of a calm yellow rather than the brighter version in our inspiration. Then we added on our new hardware, which instantly transformed this beauty:

Surprisingly, I was able to find hardware that we loved at a local store (I believe it was Home Depot) from the Martha Stewart collection.

Take a look at her now:

Next up, we tackled some of the art that went into the space. This was one of the areas that we really had to pinch pennies in, so I came up with the idea to create a collection of work that featured a school of fish:

The frames were from the dollar store (!) and spray painted white.

The fish were were hand cut from textured scrapbook paper. I just found an image I liked online, printed and used that as a template to trace all my other images from. After cutting out all my fish, I arranged them to cross over 4 sheets of the blue background paper (scrapbook, also), and then glued them into place. (We fixed that last frame after the photo was taken...ooops!) For a project that only cost us around $6, I was pretty pleased with the results.

The next thing we did was recreate the coral we fell in love with. We loved the punch of color it brought to a room that was all blue. Since I couldn't find pieces that were in our color scheme (or budget....it seemed to be one or the other!), I decided to find cheap, white versions and just spray paint them. I have even seen real coral at our fleamarket that goes for pretty cheap and would be great for this project. Here's a look at the process:

And the beautiful results!

(ps. I loved this project so much I ended up doing the same thing in our living room!)

Hope you found some of these easy projects inspiring!

xo,

Rachel