I've Been Ironing My Walls

For reals. Apparently this is a trick that's been around for a while, but I just learned about it. Did you know you can take fabric covered in stiffener and IRON IT TO YOUR WALL? And it just peels off without any damage or even any residue! Awesome, right? This would have been PERFECT as an apartment dweller.

So I made a picture frame! This is what I did:

• I painted both sides of the fabric with stiffener and let it dry. I put the fabric in between two pieces of parchment paper and ironed it a little to make it straighter (If you have fabric stiffener in a spray bottle, you probably wouldn't have to do this)
• Then I cut out my frame shape, allowing about a quarter of an inch on the inside to hold the picture to the wall.
• I placed the frame on the wall and put a piece of parchment paper over it to protect the wall, and I ironed that sucker right on there.
• Then I ran my fingernail under the inside edge and put the picture in. Ta-da!

I also put some elephants next to the light switch in Atticus's room because they're cute.

And here's some other stuff I've been working on for the past couple months.

I "upcycled" (I'm still not sure what this word means... what makes it different from just recycling?) one of those giant Christmas popcorn tins into toy storage for the girls room. It's a fox applique that I made based off of a fox illustration I saw somewhere. I just embroidered it onto a white dish towel and mod podged it onto the can. The pink stripe is just a ribbon covering up a gap, because I didn't measure the dish towel, and it wasn't quite big enough. I have 3 babies, okay?

Some wall "art" I made for the girls room. A kind of woodland theme has arisen in there.

More fun with fabric stiffener! I used a tutorial from here, and I still don't have it quite right, but basically I made a stuffed animal fox, covered it with fabric stiffener, dried it, took the stuffing out and put some LED Christmas lights in it.

Also, I had my first attempt at redoing furniture. This is supposed to be a distressed side table, and it turned out okay, but mostly it was a really good learning experience. Next time should go must better.

I also redid our pantry, and pictures of that are coming soon!