Small Budget, Big Smiles

I've been thinking for a little while now that the walls of Alex's room are very blank and boring. I've been working on adding some art and interest to many of the rooms of our house but I had yet to determine what I would be doing with his room. One thing I do know though is that he LOVES Cars. By Cars I mean the Pixar movie that most little boys are also obsessed with. It's one of the few truly great boy movies out there, in my opinion. So last week I made a plan to spruce up the blank walls of his room and do so on a tight budget. We picked up 3 very cheep ($5 a piece) frames and a Lightning McQueen story book. So for a cost of $22 and change I ended up with this alright looking decor and a very happy little guy. Mind you I think he was most exited about the measuring and hammering that Daddy did to hang them up.

Alex has a hand me down bed that has a fabric covered headboard. It previously was a very girly flower pattern that I also covered the lamp shade with. Though I had changed the fabric on the headboard the lamp was still sitting on his dresser wrapped in flower fabric. I wasn't sure how well the old fabric would come off but I had a new idea. Rather than use the same headboard fabric I decided to try the extra story book pages. I mean, I had already cut it up so it wasn't going to be usable for much anymore. It turned out pretty well if I do say so myself, however there was an unexpected effect of using a page with pictures on both sides. Once the light is on you can see the other image through the paper. It worked out fairly well even so. I was lucky that the reverse image was something that complimented the main picture. I was also lucky that the same was true for all but one of the 6 pages needed to go around the entire lamp shade. I do think I will still need to cover the surface with some type of sealer and it was slightly lumpy from the left over glue residue left behind from the fabric I removed. Over all though I was quite please with my efforts to spruce up Alex's room on a small budget.

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