I just couldn’t land on anything I loved. I’m not a “themey” person when it comes to my kiddo’s rooms, so I had colors in mind but not a shape. I was going to just do a cute circle one with my leftover fabrics and then I spotted this on Etsy:
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Adorable, expect for the price tag and I wanted to add a few more pattern instead of just solid papers. So I busted out my trusty glue gun and got to making one myself. Here were all the supplies I used:- 2 wooden embroidery hoops – 8” and 10”
- paint for the hoops
- hot glue gun
- about 8 different scrapbook papers in gray, yellow, and white
- fishing line – I wish now I would have used line that was a bit thinner and more transparent, but you can’t be picky when you’re nine months pregnant and doing craft projects
- little white hook to attach everything to the ceiling
2. I only used the insides to my embroidery hoops, not the outside part that has the hardware on it. You can discard that part (or save it for another project). Then I started by painting my hoops with a gray spray paint I had and hated the coverage and color. So I switched and did 2 coats using a acrylic craft paint and loved it much more.
3. Make your airplanes! There are a million different ways to make your paper airplanes. Look here for some good examples here. After lots of trial runs, I decided I wanted something very simple with very few fold lines.- I cut my paper into 4.5” x 5” rectangles.
- fold your paper in half
- open it back up and fold each top corner down and line up with the fold down the middle
- fold in half again
- Take each side and fold down so the top fold line, lines up with the bottom of the plane. Does that make sense?
- And that should make your simple airplane!
- I hot glued it together in all the places it could come unfolded and while the glue was still hot, I stuck in a long piece of fishing wire to hang it
5. After I made lots of airplanes, I tied them loosely around the hoops to figure out how I wanted to space them, which colors I wanted where, etc. When I was happy with the placement, I tied the fishing wire as tight as I could and added a small dot of hot glue to secure it. Then I cut off the excess fishing wire. (the beginning stages of mobile is hanging from the ceiling fan in this picture)
6. Lastly, William helped me measure and hang it from the ceiling just using a little white hook.
I love how it turned out and I hope Miles enjoys this view from his bed.
This is our guest/craft room after we took out the bed and started getting ready for our garage sale. I will also say that I was emptying out all my craft boxes and going though them. But oh yeah, it looked like for a good couple months. During this time, Miles’ nursery plan went through a couple revisions. Originally, I had my heart set on doing a wood or pallet wall. Kinda like this: 
And these were a few of the inspiration nurseries I found on Pinterest that I liked:
So remember when I was 30-something weeks pregnant with Ellie and 
After I got all the trim done, I wasn't quite sure what I had gotten myself into. Thankfully, my mom came to the rescue to help with the rest of it. Her and William did one coat on Friday night and knocked the other one out Saturday morning. 
Owen and Ellie were great helpers (NOT).
Then after the paint was done, we put together his 
Ta-da. Paint done and crib is assembled!
And here is the adorable light I found at Target next to a sweet little owl I picked up a long time ago at Prairie Gardens. 
I’ll post a few more of the individual crafts projects I did and then show you a full tour of his room!
Source: 
My review: I bought 7 of these tubs from Wal-Mart. 3 for kids and 4 for some of my school/home files. I bought several large packs of file folders (yes this took my entire “home” budget for several months.) For my kid’s boxes, I made folders with the labels:
While I’ve made it known that cooking is not my forte, it has been nice to finally feel well enough to make something for my family. Here’s a few recipes that we’ve enjoyed the last month:
My Review: I love Chipotle so I can’t say this was better than Chipotle. It doesn’t have quite the kick that they get into their salads. But this was really good! I love cilantro so this was right up my alley. William ate it with chips like a salsa and I just ate mine right out of the bowl like a salad. Definitely worth keeping this pin.
My review: yummy! It’s definitely a little sweet and I only used about half the brown sugar. Next time, I’d use only about 1/3. But served over rice, William definitely approved. And as you can tell by my pictures, I threw in a few extra veggies into mine.
I made my own little decorated papers for inside, but here are two cute printable sheets of activities to save you time if you want to do this next year. 
Let me know if you have any other good ideas for our advent countdown next year. It was such a fun way to get them excited for Christmas!
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