Nursery Signs & a Tooth!

I've been meaning to post all week but between teething and working on a few projects I've been pretty busy :)

MV's tooth officially broke thru enough to mark it on the calendar this past weekend!

I have a feeling there are a couple more just waiting to pop thru....


Here is one of my more recent projects....

I've known since I began planning the nursery (while pregnant) that I wanted some of those inspirational quote subway signs. You can find them all over Pinterest, and Etsy has a few different sellers as well; however I have a thing about buying things I'm capable of making. I don't do it.

So I started with Pinterest, and came across several different ways to do it yourself for these signs. You can find the tutorial's  I reviewed  here , and here ,and here , and here.  

In the end I opted for using stencils on Canvas. I purchased each canvas from the Dollarama for $2 each, the stencils were on clearance at Michaels for less than $5 and the paint was all left over from painting MVs room.

It took me some time to stencil the words on and try to make them as straight as possible I realize they are not perfectly straight but Im ok with it.

Deciding what to put on the signs was a little intimidating. There are so many options when it comes to nursery rhymes and songs. In the end I decided on Twinkle Twinkle because I like that song, I also wanted to have something with the alphabet and came across this sign here, the middle sign was found here.

I hope to eventually get good enough at freehand painting to stop using the stencils but for now I am stocking up and making a few more for Christmas presents :)

Hopefully I will have more pictures to post soon!