It feels like I am spending a lot of time in Birmingham these days, which is quite all right with me! It means more time with my sweet babies there! When my roommate told me that she was heading there this weekend for an engagement party, I decided that I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to go with her! Kathryn had school canceled on Friday, so she went with us too! We ended up with a little "mini-bus" to B-ham because the husband of one of our friends needed to catch a ride too!!
Friday night we sisters spent the evening together just catching up (Tom was on call). Saturday we decided that it was time to get to work on a project that Ivey has been wanting to do for a while. She loves the idea of a gallery wall of pictures and wanted to fill in this blank wall in her living room:
The first step consisted of spray painting some frames and painting some canvas boards from Hobby Lobby. We painted one a sea foam green and the other a butter yellow. Ivey wanted to write a Bible verse on one of them and I started brainstorming how we could get it to look the best. I am not sure how this idea came to me, but we tried it and it worked perfectly!! I typed out the verse and printed it on a piece of paper in bold font and taped it to the back of the canvas. We needed a light to shine through the page (we were thinking a flashlight, but the lamp worked much better!).
We placed the canvas on the lamp and could see well enough to trace the letters with a paint pen!
This is how it turned out. We used a gold paint pen, but maybe a different color would work even better next time!
Having discovered this new art form of tracing on a canvas, we decided to try something else! Ivey wanted a tree, so I just googled some tree images, enlarged the picture to the size we needed, printed it off and followed the same steps, this time using a paint brush and brown paint:
I think it turned out great!
Here is the wall beginning to take shape last night! We had a few additions to add the next morning...
Here's what it looks like now:
This picture of the bird's nest has been around a while. I took it when I first moved to where I am living now. A bird had built a nest right outside my roommate's bedroom window, and one day, I just opened the window, stuck my camera out at arm's length and snapped this one! I might have even had my eyes closed afraid that the mother bird would come swooping back in and scare me!! haha
Ivey free-handed that HOPE on a piece of burlap material:
Used a bird cut out pattern from the internet, cut it out of some scrapbook paper and framed it!
It's hard to see, but I love this picture of my dad's parents before they married. Granddaddy was a navigator on a B-24 during WWII and this is a picture of him in his uniform with grandmother:
Of course, during all of these projects, we had some loving going on too! (I can't believe I didn't get even one picture of either Thomas or "Auntie Tat." Thomas was not feeling well, but that didn't stop him from enjoying having his aunts to play trains and cars with!)
I think she is just the cutest thing!
She is sitting up so well now and loves playing with her toys!
A fun weekend of crafting and playing and visiting!! Let's do it again soon!
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