Bath Time Subway Art Canvas {Master Bath}

The big white wall behind my big white tub which I love to soak my big white body in was just calling out for a big white-lettered canvas.  

I had a big huge canvas with with big ugly pastel flowers on it that I'd nabbed at a garage sale for a not so big price that would be perfect. 

 I did a little mixing of royal blue mistinted paint and black to get a dark navy.  Then I enlisted the help of my kids to help me come up with words that were associated with taking a bath.  I excluded most of their words since they came up with  "naked, cold, slippery, etc".  

I just love stencils!!!  You can get packs of the cardboard letters for so cheap and in so many different fonts and sizes.  I will never do subway art on a canvas this big again, however!  It took my impatient self just way to stinkin' long to cover this thing!  And I totally ran out of words by the end and almost had to resort to the words my kids thought up aforementioned! 

Someday, I will have a beautiful rug, but for now, it's the shag one that I've got on hand.  I love that this old clawfoot tub was already restored when we bought the house!!!  One less thing for me to do!  And it's beautiful.  I haven't decided if I'll paint the bottom outside of it yet.  Any thoughts?

Until next time,

have a hot bath and see you soon!

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Upcycled Canvas {Be Still And Know}

{Before}

Tori had to be in the picture

It was a thrift store find. 

 I painted two coats of the tiny little bit of red paint I had left over from my office desk, and then got out my stencils.  I used a light lime-ish green for the Bird on a Branch Cutting Edge Stencil and white letters for the typography.  The letter stencils come in a big pack from Wal Mart and I use them ALL the time!  I'm telling you, because someone will ask. :)

I might bring this to the last minute craft show I'm participating in at Springport on Saturday.

(It's not last minute, I am)

If you're local, I hope to see you there!!

DIY Striped Scripture Canvas

Daniel Baker.  Congratulations on graduating from High School.  Not that that's a big accomplishment in itself, most of us did.  But graduating Valedictorian of your class?  Now that's worth some congrats!!

My little girl lovin' some Daniel attention!

 For his graduation, I wanted to do something a little special so I started out with a blank 16x20 canvas and painted stripes on using good ole' painters tape.  It's actually a dark gray and left over deep turquoise from my piano.  Then using three different styles of letter stencils, fit the verse on with white paint.  

The Name Game On Canvas

I wanted to make something fun and unique for my sister's birthday and since she had just totally transformed her living room, I wanted to make her something to put on the wall in her fresh "new" room.  I started with their last name, Baker, and then used all the first names of their family, fitting them in like a game of scrabble.  The corner looked a tad bare when I finished, so the bird stencil was the perfect little addition to fill in the gap. :)

For my letters,

I use cardstock stencils that you can buy in a pack for pretty cheap at Wal Mart.

Then I had fun doing this square canvas one for my friend Natalie, the bride to be:

Incorporating Kid's Artwork Into Your Decor {3 Displays}

Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar.

Your child comes home from kindergarten and proudly presents you with a beautiful abstract work of art. You hang it on the fridge so they know how much you admire it.

Then comes a new one the next day.  And two more the next.

Soon your sneaking them off the fridge when they are occupied with their new drum set and then you wait until a big loud crack to the cymbal so they won't hear you crumple up the masterpiece and hide it way down under the banana peels and empty Kleenex boxes in the trash can so they won't have a chance of seeing how you totally defaced their pictures.

No, obviously, you can't keep them all.  And the above scenario will probably still be played out from time to time.  But for when that really special one comes...  here's a few ideas from my home and my sister's, on how to work them into your home's decor and make a statement.

 Karly had this framed wall decor that just wasn't doing anything for her anymore.  She took three of her daughter's (age two) paintings and put them on three sheets of scrapbook paper.  Then she painted the frame black and hung it up in her living room.  Looks so contemporary and fabulous - thanks to a little upcycling and a two year old's colorful paint strokes!

From the hand of my six year old son:

Tobin brought this fabulous painting home from school one day and said they had an assignment to paint a picture for their dad for Father's Day.  This one said "Happy Father's Day" along the bottom, but my frame wasn't quite big enough and I had to fold it under.  Put any drawing or painting behind glass and in a nice frame and it instantly looks like you paid big money for it!  I just LOVE this one!

I think he's got his Grandma Kim's artistic abilities, what do you think?

(Definitely not mine!)

And lastly, this is in our upstairs hallway, where the kid's bedrooms are.  

I've shared this before HERE and it's still one of my favorite artwork displays!

Lovin' a blank stretched canvas

Okay so one of them is upcycled, but some are actually brand new - as in I peeled-the-plastic-off-of-them brand new,  if you can believe it - and it's so marvelous!  Thanks to people who give me blank canvases as birthday/Christmas gifts. :)

So here are a few canvases I've done recently to share with you.

Nothing totally awesome or anything, just what I've been up to!

I use stencils for all my words.  I'm a stencil kind of girl.

Okay so if you can't tell, this one is the upcycled canvas.  If you flip it over, you can still see the outline of a large seashell.  Pretty sure it came out of a nautical themed bathroom from 1982.

This is one of the first paintings I ever did actually, but it was so "blah" so I stenciled on the word "REJOICE".
It, along with the gray and white ones, is for sale at Fabulous Darling in Brooklyn, MI.
"Be Still and Know" is for sale in my Etsy shop.  
Stop in and have a look!

Our House Rules and Origami Owl WINNER!

Winner announced at the bottom of of this post!

 I bought a square canvas at a garage sale for a couple bucks. 

 It was black with a big white tulip close-up. 

Nothing wrong with it, but I didn't buy it for the painting, just the material.  I finally got around to doing my subway art House Rules on it. 

 I love all the super cheap letter stencils that are available out there

 (check Wal Mart!).

  I never have a plan when I start out, just whatever fits good as I go....  I've found myself pointing out "be respectful" to my kids for about every reprimand. Good thing that one really covers the bases!  Now that it's done I've thought of all kinds of "rules" that should have been included! 

(No tooting on each other, burping in faces, using yogurt as lotion... just to name a few.  Those just don't go real well on wall art, though.)

And the winner for the

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Debra Rodkey Lee

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