Tuesday, April 24, 2012

$15 baby decor

I'm FINALLY posting some pictures of Jackson's room... it's taken me long enough (6 months...)!
So a long time ago when I was searching how I wanted to decorate Jackson's room, I was looking at all of the cute crib sets. I found that most of them were $50+ dollars, and the ones I really liked, over $75. I then decided I would make everything for Jackson's room so that it would be less expensive (besides, it just feels GOOD to be thrifty!). I ended up making all of this for under $15.
Here are a few things I did to decorate:
Curtains- I just got a queen size sheet for $5 at walmart to make this curtain. I used the extra material for the crib skirt and the fabric behind the "J". Then I bought some fun fabric at the store (on sale) and cut out circles and ironed them on.
I bought a box of buttons at the store and hot glued them onto the fabric. The fabric is just on a piece of cardboard, and I bought the ribbon for 50% off, and I also used it for the banner. 
So apparently I'm not so good at taking pictures. This says "boy". 
Hard to see, but here's the bed skirt with matching round pieces of fabric. The bed skirt has a fold down the middle, I think this looks a lot cuter in person. I also thought about making a crib bumper, but then I've read so much about SIDS and the recommendation to not have bumpers to prevent SIDS, so I became the over scared (or maybe just super safe) parent and decided not to do one. But I've read that they're not super hard to do!
These are cut-out circles of fun paper (using someone's Cricut), then I just sewed them together, spacing them apart randomly.
For the banner in the back, I just cut out triangles of the fabric I used to do the circles and hot glued them to the back of the ribbon, then hot glued buttons on the ends on top of where I nailed the ribbon to the wall. The mobile was made by an old roommate and given to me for a baby shower gift (Thanks, Erin! :) ).
Finished product!


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