Elijah's room- yet another project.

Alright so I am taking a break on the nursery today- pictures will be available soon. I just had to take the time to post a blog about Elijah's room update. When Elijah was born we had to move so quickly that I never got a chance to put some real effort into his room. So here I am, nearly 2 years later, finally getting around to doing something about it. I chose a surf theme because I thought he could grow into it as we got him a big boy bed and some surf sheets. But buying stuff for a nursery and redoing Elijah's room has been pretty spendy, so I have gone to great lengths to get some groovy deals and stuff. Here is what I have come up with:

Cute "beachy" curtains

I completely lack talent in the sewing department, but fortunately for me, my friend Lauren is killer at it and agreed to make curtains for BOTH the boys' rooms.

We picked out fabric that had a neat beachy feel and she picked this awesome colored ribbon to add to the bottom. And finally, 19 months later, my boy has curtains!!

Beachy organizer:

Props to the clearance section at Kohl's where I purchased this beachy organizer for his room for a whopping $6. Woot woot.

Beach sign:

Got a bargain on this cute solid wood surfing sign on EBAY for $4.00 (yeah ebay is rocking my world right now).


New and improved Lettering:
I made lettering for Eli's room when he was born, but it was pretty boring and very bland on a white wall. While googling one day (is googling a word?) I saw the coolest idea for lettering using modge podge. I found cute beachy paper at the scrapbooking store and modge-podged it to some backing, which made each letter backing have a cool "glazed" look. Then I took his old lettering and "roughed it up" a bit by sanding the edges and using brown ink on them. A trip to Michael's helped me get the toothy edge hangers I needed and presto: beach-inspired lettering. (I especially like the bathing suit bottoms)
Total cost for this at-home project: $8



Surfin' USA picture frame:
I had a picture frame at home sitting in my closet that I wasn't super excited about using. So I painted it blue and used chipboard I had purchased online sometime ago on it. I took some of my favorite pics of Eli going to the beach and the swimming pool and used them (ofcourse I plan on updating that this summer).
Total cost: $4.50

So this room still needs some work, but I just had to share what it looks like now. It's so fun to walk in and see the transformation. Pictures really don't do it justice. But I have been having so much fun combining my creativity with my thriftiness to come up with some great home projects that keep me occupied when I can't do anything for the nursery. It's amazing what a little spit and some ingenuity can do!