Dress up time for our little Princess's

I've been slow this year with  crafting for my blog, but with limited space in our apartment and all the other crafts I did last year, I have to be creative as to what I can do these days.

And with the girls princess dress growing in number and the dress up box becoming overflowing, it was time to do something or should I say, make something to fix it.

I got these cute little wrought iron shelves from Hobby Lobby on sale for $7.50

I had some left over wood, I measured it the same length as the two shelves together.

Cut it and sanded the edges.

Used, Black Krylon Primer and Paint, gave it a couple of good coats, making sure it dries 

Between coats.

I used a couple of D-rings on the back

Then screwed the shelves to the wood and hung it up in the girls wall.

I did drill holes and used plastic wall plugs and screws.

And easy peasy lemon squeezy, you have an easy and quick place for the girls to hand

Their pretty Princess dress and play Dress Up.

The shelf on top serves as a nice little place for the girls crowns and jewelry. 

Seren was quick to point out that there were 2 hooks free.

Her response was, "I'm going to ask Santa to bring me an Elsa dress and an Anna dress for Carys."

It's a good thing I 'know' that Santa has already got them for them! ;)

Seren as happy as can be and I must say that these dresses are getting much more use, 

Now, that the girls can actually see the dress's and the clean up time after being good practice for when they get older and have to hang their clothes up and that they don't belong on the floor!

I made a quick flower hanging so the girls can hand their necklaces on.

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Chalk Art

I have had this large picture frame for many years.

It was a deep shade of gold, it looked like this other frame I had (below)

All I did was buy a primer and paint combined in an off white.

Gave it a couple of coats and let it dry.

I also gave the glass inserts three coats of black chalkboard paint

 And let that dry in between each coat

Then, I have a friend who is doing a creative writing course along with me

We often bounce ideas off each other to help with our writing process

And one day the topic was Water.

Read his writing HERE

I loved the words he wrote, so I decided I knew exactly where I wanted to

Showcase these thought provoking words.

I quickly drew out a sketch of the words and how I wanted them to look.

Then, with my frame and newly painted chalkboard paint dried. 

I set to sketching out the words on the chalkpaint.

All done!

And I love how it looks.

There is something magical about water.

If you're having trouble figuring out what it says here you go:

Water is magical, especially old water

In overgrown lakes... 

They collect time, history, myths... 

Expectations & Dreams.

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