Pattern Tree with Owls Wall Decals

  
We've been busy here in the studio.  We're having so much fun with our new printer!  

My favorite new material is a polyester fabric material with adhesive backing.  It's so versatile and the colors are so bright and vibrant.  It's child and earth friendly and super way to use, just peel and stick. 

Today I want to share with you a couple of my favorite designs.  

This cute Whimsical Pattern Tree with Owl on Branch Wall Decal with patterned leaves and a sweet owl on a tree branch make such a huge impact in your child's room of playroom!  It has the prettiest pinks, greens and aqua blues in lots of fun patterns.

Of course, every child needs their name in their room so I designed this Name Decal to coordinate the whimsical tree with the same fun patterns and pretty colors.

Name Wall Decal

You know I wouldn't forget the boys out there!  I think we are going to make this Tree with Boy Owl Fabric decal for Eli when we redecorate his bedroom this summer.  I love the blues, greens and browns in this one!

Tree with Boy Owl Wall decal

 All of our fabric wall decals come on a sheet similar to this.  Just peel the pieces off and place as you would like.  Kids LOVE to help with this.  No worries, since they are reusable, if you don't like the placement, just lift and stick again.  Moving soon?  Keep the backing paper and when you are ready, just peel the decals off the wall and place them back on the backing.  They'll be ready to reapply!

Name Wall Decal

 Keep an eye on our site because I will be listing more and more designs using this amazing new material!  If there is something in particular you are looking for, let me know!

Our New Capabilities!

James and I are so excited to have finally purchased a vinyl printer/cutter. 

source: RolandUSA

 We've been talking about it for about ten years and finally decided it was time.  Let me tell you, this thing is amazing!  It can print on

Vinyl (matte interior and gloss exterior)

Static cling material

T-shirt transfer material

Canvas (for wrapped canvas art)

Archival paper most of our designs will be available on Standout Boards!

Reusable Adhesive Fabric

Banners and more!

Over the next few days I will be showing you some of the designs we have already listed and some others that are coming soon!

What's Growing in Your Yard?

James and I love to start our morning with a stroll (with coffee, of course!) to survey our kingdom (no reason we can't call a half acre in a subdivision our kingdom, right?)  Plants grow so fast here in North Carolina that you can literally see a difference from day to day.  This morning our yard kingdom was particularly beautiful. The sun was just coming up and shining through the leaves of the trees that surround our home.  There was a heavy dew last night so everything was glistening and sparkly, (and you know how much I adore sparkly!) so I ran in and grabbed my camera so I could share with you.   Feel free to pretend you are strolling the kingdom with me as you scroll through these pics :)

We always start in the flower garden because it's my favorite spot.

Tickseed is one of my favorites because it's so bright and is self seeding

I have a dozen Lantana plants in four different colors (LOVE!)

This one is new and I can't remember what it's called but it's cute...do you see the spider?

Another new one that I can't remember the name of but it adds some whimsy to the garden.

Who doesn't adore Hydrangeas?  

After the flower garden, we mosey on over to the pear tree and make sure the *%^#@! squirrels haven't robbed us of our pears like they did our strawberries.

so far so good!

 Then we head over to the vegetable garden.  I love having a veggie garden.  Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is better than fresh picked tomatoes and basil.  Speaking of tomatoes we have over 50 tomato plants this year.  The boys and I decided to plant them from seed this year and let me tell you, a packet of tomato seeds go a long, long, long way!  Two packets of tomato seeds goes even longer.  We had so many tomato plants even after giving many of them away to anyone who would take them that we planted them in our landscaping! 

this plant was glowing gold in the sunlight, you can see it a bit on the stem.

trying to talk James into letting these beauties ripen, he wants fried green tomatoes so bad!

beautiful bean flower

Purple bean flowers (so cool!)

We're having fresh peas with dinner tonight!

I love pea flowers, they are so pretty!

Pumpkin flower

I hope you enjoyed your tour through our kingdom.  Next time I will show you the herbs and potted plants on the back deck.  

So, tell me, what's growing in your yard?

Still Laundry Room Dreaming

This is a post I shared in July of 2010.  Yes, it has taken me almost two years to, as I say in the last line of the post, "figure out what to do in there and get it done" but our bathroom/laundry area renovation is in progress!  I will be posting before and during pics tomorrow.  In the mean time, enjoy my laundry room dreams.


Before we left for Tybee Island I started another project... no, I haven't finished the other 1004 projects that I am working on but I started a new one anyway.  This is a combo project because it involves two rooms.  Actually, one room with three closets.  Our main bathroom has our laundry area in it.  Laundry area is probably misleading, it's pretty much a laundry closet.  It is just about the worst area of our home.  It has cement gray accordian style "doors" (don't look at me, the previous owners can take credit for those beauties!) and is just large enough for the washer and dryer, that is it.  It's good points or should I say point (singular) is that is has lots of room above the washer and dryer for storage which is something that we desperately need around here.

So, I am ready to tackle the bathroom, laundry area and two linen closets.  The laundry area just needs something done with the walls and the hanging bar removed and a couple more shelves put in.  The linen closets (one of which is almost empty thanks to my over-planning a couple weekends ago) are in need of some type of organization.  I still can't figure out what I want to put where.  I have already moved all the sheets to their respective bedrooms (don't know why it took me so long to figure that one out!) and all of our cleaning supplies are in a basket in the hallway waiting for a home.

The bathroom is a project that may have to wait a while.  James just isn't ready to play along yet.   He would much rather spend his summer free time riding bikes, going to the beach and playground and other fun things with the kids than replacing the vanity and faucet and installing beadboard and as much as I hate to admit it, I need his help with some of the projects that I want to do in there.

Here are a few laundry rooms that I am el-oh-vee-ee ing. 

eclectic laundry room design by other metros media and blogs Restyled Home

love the vertical stripes and cute shelf of this one

As much as I adore those cabinets, I don't think they would fit in my area

so bright and sunny :)

cottage-y and homey

not loving the paint color but this is pretty much my set up

there's not much I wouldn't do to have a laundry area this gorgeous!

with the exception of the first all photos from bhg.com

Hopefully, in the next few days I figure out what to do in there and get it done.  In the mean time if you have any ideas for me I would love to hear them!

Canvas Prints are Here! Well, almost here!

I've been hinting around on Facebook that we've been working on something super fun and I am finally ready to tell you about it!  

We are now making CANVAS PRINTS!  

Yes, I am screaming because I am SO excited and I love them SO much! 

I'm still working on the pics and prices but here are a couple that I have ready to show you.

This cute lower case monogram print will come in three different color combos, robins egg with dark brown (shown), red with power blue, and lime green with navy blue.

Our Family Rules decal is so popular I knew we had to make a canvas with it.  It will be available with a sea green background (shown), rusty brown, brick red and putty gray backgrounds.

We'll be listing these two and several more over the next few days on our site so keep an eye out for them :)

Modern Turquoise & Yellow Nursery

Last July I worked with a sweet Mommy-to-be named Molly of Barnwood Urbanism.

  Molly had designed a gorgeous sea turtle for her little one's nursery and wanted a decal made from her design.  Of course, we were pleased to accommodate her (we like making pregnant women happy!) 

Since they didn't want to find out if the baby was a boy or girl they went with a gender neutral design plan and it turned out gorgeous!  

I love the colors and the brightness and the modern touches.  But I especially adore the sea turtle :)

You can see more of Gavin's nursery and the rest of their lovely home on Molly's blog, Barnwood Urbanism.

Thrift Store Painting Turned Wall Word Art

I've been using decals as stencils for years.  Don't get me wrong, I love decals in their regular form but sometimes a project calls for distressing or other custom touches that you just can't do with decals.  Like this picture frame I made a few months ago.

When I found this oil painting at my local thrift store for $2 I actually bought it for the frame.  Then James saw it and really liked the painting.  Well, not really the painting itself but he liked that it was a painting of an old truck covered in foliage, nature taking over.  We see things like this a lot on our occasional Sunday drives through the country roads around our home.  He's pretty bummed that they removed one old truck (and the dilapidated house that accompanied it) to build a new pharmacy.

 

OK, back to the project.  After much begging persuading on my part, James realized that he was fighting a losing battle this painting wasn't a perfect fit for our new gallery wall (which is almost done, post coming soon!) and he agreed to let me turn it into something fabulous!

First, I designed my saying in my signmaking software.  If you have a Cricut or Sillouette you can use it (I think...I don't really know anything about either of them).  You could also use letter stickers from the craft store. Then I cut it on my plotter, weeded and taped the letters and applied them to my painting.  I didn't think to take any pics of this part because I do these things every day and it didn't occur to me that you may want to see how it's done, sorry!

There's no reason for the lettering being dark red, it's just what was in the cutter at the time.  Since the letters were removed it doesn't matter what color you make them.

 Then using regular acrylic paint, cover the entire project, letters and all.  I was going for a distressed look so I left the paint thin in some spots.

Some people prefer to remove the letters when the paint is dry...I have tried it several times and I prefer to peel them while the paint is still pretty wet, just a bit tacky.  Whatever you do, don't use a blowdryer to rush the drying process, you won't be able to get the letters off without removing big hunks of paint, ruining your project.

After all the letters are removed, let the paint dry and your done!  I put this back in it's original frame.  It's got a great burlap border around it, so cool!

Here is mine, in it's spot on my gallery wall.  Ignore the frames with their generic paper photos in them, I'm getting to them!

What do you think?  Is this a project that you would try?  

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