I’m officially DONE decorating Felix & Penelope’s bedroom. Well, I lied. I have to print a photo of Felix (how do I not have any printed photos of my 7 month old?!?) & frame it next to a photo of Penelope. Over the weekend, Chris and I were busy cleaning & organizing the house. It’s like I’m 8 1/2 months pregnant again – minus the 30 pounds. I think it’s because we’ve decided we’re going to live in our place for at least another 6 months. No moving just before the holidays! YAY!
Yesterday, Penelope & I had fun cutting out shapes with felt. She just massacred her felt (had a good time doing it, too) and I cut out fish silhouettes & circles (bubbles). I’ve been so close to sharing Felix & Penelope’s shared room with you, but it was missing something. A mobile. I made a little mobile to go over Felix’s bed.
I wanted to keep with the orange & yellow theme, so I grabbed a bunch of felt in that same color family & went to town cutting shapes. I sewed the circles all in a line to make the bubbles and draped them over the embroidery hoop (much like Susan’s chandelier). I cut two of each fish & sewed the two together in skewed lines to add weight and interest. I assembled it all together using a million and a half square knots, industrial embroidery floss and embroidery hoops. Let me know if you’re interested in a tutorial.
Overall I’m really happy how this turned out. Also, it cost nothing to make. If I were to itemize it out, it’d be under 50¢ and that would be between the embroidery floss & the embroidery hoops. The felt was free from my mom, the hoops were 6 for $1 and the floss was $3 for a million yards.
It’s masculine, and fits within the theme of the room. That has been my biggest challenge with decorating Penelope & Felix’s room – being gender neutral. Thankfully I started out with a mostly yellow/orange theme with Penelope’s room to begin with. All pink would’ve been much harder to make masculine.
ok i LOVE this idea!! please share a tutorial!
I love this! The warm colors are gorgeous and you are so creative making that lovely mobile.
adorable, melissa! i love that mobile. super cute!
I love the mobile and that you opted to do fish even though you weren’t using traditional sea-themed colors. Beautiful!
cant……wait…..for……room……..tour. eeeeeek
You are like the queen of mobiles. You continue to do the impossible–make me love the next one more than the last. Yes, please to the tutorial.
The mobile is gorgeous! It is really lovely. Job well done!
The color combo is so bright and cheery!
Love it!
Also, where did you find hoops 6/$1??
The mobile is wonderful…what baby wouldn’t love to look up at that? I also adore the personalized elephant print…yours as well I assume? Love everything!
what a great addition to the nursery! :) im sure baby would love having something lovingly made by mum to stare at all day!
xx, zhing
Super cute!Please share the tutorial!
This is great! I especially love the contrast of the one blue fish :)
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My most influential teacher was Dr. See at CMSU! He expected perfection and most of the time I strove for it for him. He really brought out so much more of me than I thought was even possible!
It looks great! I especially admire Penelope’s quilt. Lovely!!! The yellow and orange!!! I agree with you decorated rooms are somehow easier to keep clean. I think its because we are proud of our efforts. Oh wait-none of my rooms are actually “finished” yet. I have been putting off finishing both of my daughters rooms since July. I am looking for the perfect mid century dresser to paint. My oldest girl actually has a dresser just like the bedside chest in the picture -but I havent got around to painting it yet. Imagine that. haha I think I need to give myself some boundaries. No new projects until unfinished projects are finished.
Oh so gorgeous – love the mobile! yes, yes, yes on the tutorial.xxx