Personalized Pillows

The warmth and comfort of a favorite pillow…made better because it’s personalized for someone you love! The soft patchwork paired with a contrasting front panel and name appliqué give this pillow a high-end look at a price you’ll love.
Comes with pattern, alphabet cut-outs and easy instruction. Celebrate someone special with a pillow they will cherish! Made to use with a general home sewing machine. You Can Make This has many darling patterns to choose from. To purchase pattern go here.

Back at the Ranch

Warm and inviting western theme brings about a classic feel to this kids room. Usually bead board is placed on the lower half of the wall, instead bead board was installed on the top portion of the wall near the ceiling. Love the fabrics chosen for the bedding and pillows. Brown weave fabric makes a great border on the valance: piping around the western print fabric completes the window treatment with fabulous detail.

Fabric Covered Canvas Art

Kids fabric covered canvas art by Dana at www.twiglet.com.au/

Room photos by craft.dow.com
Fabric covered canvas art is a super simple project that is quick and easy! It's easy to change the look with the season or theme. Plus, it's much safer to hang over a bed or crib because it's not so heavy.

This project only takes a blank canvas (or stretcher bars), fabric and a staple gun. If you want large art, it's much cheaper to use canvas stretcher bars instead of a blank canvas. The stretcher bars can be purchased at most craft stores. These bars snap together at the corners with a little help from a hammer. Stretch your fabric over the stretcher bars or canvas and use a staple gun. Start with the long side and stretch fabric to the other side of the frame and then finish up with the short sides. When you get to the corners with the fabric - fold the fabric (kinda like wrapping a gift) and staple. Scrapbook paper and wallpaper also make for great canvas art.

Wednesdays - What Color is That??

Last year Caroline Devoy was an exhibitor at the International Quilt Market. Her booth won best new exhibitor - not an easy feat with all the talented people exhibiting at the Market! Don't you love this booth and wouldn't it make the cutest kids room? The paints used: Sherwin Williams Interactive Cream (SW 6113), Exciting Orange (SW 6647) and Tango (SW 6649). The orange stripes sure make the decor pop. Caroline is thinking about redoing her daughters room like her booth - can't wait for those pictures.

Jessica Jones designed the booth, Caroline's husband and two friends built the structure. Caroline painted and decorated (with the help of her friends and employees). What a team! Portia from Perdoozy sent the darling apron for the show and her friend from BlueBlossomGirl sent the bag on the wall. Darling!

The ribbons in the frame are Patty Young's new Andalucia ribbons that coordinate with her new fabric line for Michael Miller. The fabric and ribbon are both tremendous and she got a great response at market. Go Patty! Yes, that is a black plastic frame from Ikea, which was spray painted beige.

Caroline is 42 and the mother of a 2-year-old. She started her business in August of 2001 to design purses and it has morphed into jcaroline creative, web retailer of fabrics and ribbon and has now morphed into her own products. Her mother is an expert sewer and was the original creative home decorator (sheets on the wall, you name it) and taught Caroline. Caroline is an accountant by training, but never really dug it. Except the creative part. J Love fabrics and color. And creating things. Check out her creative blog jcaroline.typepad.com

Baby name over crib

Tracy at Petite Suites painted this very stylish baby name over the crib. I love the uniqueness of the diamond shape with the letters. Diamond shapes are not that hard to paint. To finish up the name - order decals in the letters and color you need. Decals are not only easy to apply, but make your project look spectacular.

Hair Bow Holders

When my girls were little I painted a unique hair bow holder, it was shaped like a dolls head with curly raffia hair to clip the hair bows too. It was very cute - but now that I look back it's quite dated. Well things have changed.....check out these up-to-date and too cute hair bow holders. It's like having a nice piece of art do double-duty. Created by Erika Vazzana - to see more of her creations go to The End Design.

Shelving Ideas

Who would have thought to use a branch to make a shelf? This could be such a fun idea in certain rooms such as a fairy room, ladybug room, garden room, bugs, etc... Let your imagination have fun and create your own shelf. Images from wokmedia.com

Cinderella Princess Bed

If you can dream it, they can build it. Sweet Dream Children's Interiors is a full-service, custom children's furniture company. They specialize in unique, one-of-a-kind theme beds and designed this Princess Palace bed for a VIP client. JoAnn Means, the owner of Sweet Dream, observes, “The most popular and unique theme bed we currently make is our princess castle bed. This set is a beautifully detailed creation that we customize for each little girl. Special features like built-in drawers, bench seats and shelves in the “towers” on either side of the bed provide plenty of storage for clothing as well as ways to display personal treasures. We can even build hidden storage drawers into the stairs."
Check out the the grand stairway leading to the balcony, pink turrets and hand turned spindles - all these details make this an over the top princess bed! Love the curved slide, just imagine your little princess sliding down that in her ball gown - cute! At Sweet Dream Beds...the sky is the limit, and the possibilities are endless. To view more custom beds - sweetdreambed.com

Great Idea - Bulletin Board Project

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A couple coats of pink spray paint (Rust-Oleum's Sweet Pea) fabric, ribbon and a little tweaking here and there -make for a functional bulletin board. Alana at Gray Matters crafted this darling bulletin board - check out more instructions at gray matters blog - graymattersmd.blogspot.com

Wednesdays - What Color is That??

Isn't this the coolest room ever?? Designed by Wilshire Design Group and murals painted by Leah Watson. This is NASCAR fan heaven! Wall paint color is Monarch Foggy London - Millennium Collection. A roll-up garage door is used as the headboard for the bed. Racing logo was painted using an overhead projector and a steady hand. For more photos of this room check out our boys rooms gallery.

Stuffed Animal Couch

Not sure what to do with all those stuffed animals your child has collected. Here's an idea - a stuffed animal couch. This couch is displayed at Harrod's - not sure if it is for sale - but a fun couch. Just wondering how comfortable this couch is???? Photo provided by memimenam

This huge wall decal sure brightens up this kids room. These decals are priced at $160 and are made in Australia (not sure what the shipping would cost). If you prefer to spend about $15, Sherwin Williams paint store has colors-to-go for $5 each. With white walls as a background you would need to purchase 3 colors and use a overhead projector and a drawing on a transparency. One year I used a birthday card and copied it onto a transparency sheet and used the overhead projector - perfect for art challenged people like me. This simple project would take 3-4 hours with drying time in between.
I like the addition of the oars to the bedroom. But I know in my sons room these would have become weapons! Hopefully these are attached to the wall:) More decals here.

Fire Truck Bed

What little fireman wouldn't want a fire truck bed for his bedroom? I've included 4 various fire truck beds - one is a do-it-yourself project and the other 3 are finished beds with simple assembly. This bed is a toddler size bed available for purchase and ready in time for Christmas. Click here for more details.

Look at the following fire truck bed. What a unique bed - complete with real working gauges, retractable fire hoses, etc. There is even a 360 degree spinning water canon - of course without the water:).

Here is an inexpensive toddler size bed - click here for details.

This bed is a do-it-yourself project built like a classic fire truck. There is a secret storage compartment under the hood and a pretend ladder on the side of the fire truck. Twin size mattress fits in the truck bed. Dimensions for the bed - 92" long by 44" wide. U-bild.com is a company that provides woodworking plans. Their unique "trace, saw and assemble" designs feature simple-to-follow patterns that allow even beginners to achieve professional results. Each plan features detailed step-by-step instructions, full-size traceable patterns, in-progress photos, complete materials lists and cutting schedules. This fire truck plan is $9.95 - great price to save hours of time trying to figure it out yourself.

Great Idea - Pillow Tutorial

Check out these darling pillows that are fairly easy to make and would look beautiful in a child's room or teen bedroom. Sandi Henderson of Sandi Henderson Design posted this pillow tutorial on her blog. Sandi is a fabric designer who has debuted two fabric lines - Ginger Blossom and Farmers Market. These fabrics look so yummy and refreshing. Click on the images/instructions to view a larger format.

Thank you Sandi for allowing us to post your images and instructions. To find more sewing tutorials go to Sandi's design blog.