The Fabric Floozie

Today is the last day to get in those recon projects! Click the link at the top of the page to submit your project!

In the meantime, here is a sneak peek of my latest recon

Come on everyone, I’ve seen a good 10-15 of you put the Recon-A-Thon logo on your blogs! Lets get those entries in! They MUST be received before March 1st!

Here are the rules, and you can also submit your entry on this page

Last week, I posted a review and giveaway from JulieVision on etsy.
I’m floored and SO excited by the response for this giveaway. Over 60 entries were received

But our one and only winner is….

“harrithu”
Submitted on 2010/01/29 at 3:08pm

my worst haircut was in the 4th grade when my hairdresser cut my hair all the way to my ears. and it was the day right before yearbook pictures!

Sorry to hear about your bad haircut, but congrats on the win! We hope you enjoy your new Mullet

For everyone else who entered, be sure to check out JulieVision on etsy

You’ve all probably seen Lily’s room in all of it’s pink and bead-boarded glory, but most of you haven’t seen Brendan’s space-themed bedroom.

For starters, Brendan is nearly 5 years old, and is obsessed with all things space and astronaut. When I say obsessed, I mean OBSESSED.  He was an astronaut for Halloween. His chicken nuggets are rocket ships blasting off. In fact, he’ll pretend ANYTHING he can get his hands on is a rocket ship… from toilet paper rolls to stacks of Legos, to spools to thread, to Tinkerbell dolls.

So when we were ready to do his room, the theme was a no brainer.

We started with a small-ish and very plain bedroom

To help you get an idea of room size, this is what the previous owners had in this room:

First things first, I knew Brendan needed a chalkboard wall. I also knew that chalk board paint is significantly more expensive than regular black paint, so I taped off the wall about 3.5 feet up and painted the bottom half chalkboard and the top half black

If you decide to paint using chalkboard paint, be sure to follow the curing directions to a T.

I also knew I wanted the top half of the wall to have some sort of space theme to it. At the time, Brendan was *really* into space ships and blasting everything off, counting backwards. So I googled rocket ships til I found one I was confident I could replicate.

Then I headed into his room with red paint and a tiny brush

Once the chalkboard paint was dry, I used 2 1×2s and painted them red, then attached them similar to chair rail over my tape line. This separated the two types of paints and well as provided a resting place for the chalk.

I had previously contacted Samantha of Goin’ Vinyl to place an order for the numbers “1″ through “10″ and the word “Blast Off!”

I had purchased coordinating bedding from Ikea on the cheap, and purchased matching colored fabric from Joann’s to recover some blue pleather ottomans i’d had for work.

While at Joann’s, Brendan spotted some space themed fabric which I knew he needed a pillow out of

And we hung the ikea circular toy net in red, and an ikea angled bookshelf in red

So here was his room at that point

This week, however, we made some changes.

After we added/moved some stuff:

For starters, let me address some of the space decor in the room.

The space stickies above the window are from Dollar Tree. Santa put them in Brendan’s stocking
The wooden space shapes above his bed are prepainted from Hobby Lobby.
The space patches on Brendan’s wall by the door are from TheSpaceStore.com
The globe is from Toys R Us.
The telescope is from Toys R us and I DO NOT recommend it.
The astronaut bear on the bed is from Hard Rock Cafe – Houston.
The letter B was purchased at a Burlington 5 years ago when I was pregnant with B by a friend of mine. I painted it to match his growth chart….

Which brings us to the growth chart itself

I, of course, made it the same way I made Lily’s. You can see my tutorial here.

The back of it was painted with leftover black paint from his wall (the top half). The rest was painted with paint pens from Hobby Lobby, excluding the earth which was painted with a brush using paint I had on hand. I recommend splurging on the paint pens (about $3.00 per pen) as it will make your life SO much easier, and it will give you a much smoother, more even layer of paint.

I do have more vinyl on the way for some canvas like panels to go over his dresser, and we do plan to eventually re-finish his dresser black. But that’ll be a while

So that’s Brendan’s room. Now you’ve seen both
What is your favorite room you’ve decorated recently? Do you have a bathroom that you’d love to hang out in? Or is the office your calm space? Include a link if you can