All Colors Go Together

My good friend Meg always says "All colors go together"and this is definitely the approach I have been taking in the baby room. In fact this is an approach that I take to most projects that I am working on. In regards to the kid's space, I have to be careful because there are not a lot of restrictions to be put on a baby room and I could get really crazy.

One way that I wanted to add some color was by making a baby mobile that would go over the crib.  I kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do based on a picture I saw on the internet. There was a lot I liked about this mobile but wanted something that would be easy to make and not so girly.  I also had the issue of one sided paint samples and not wanting to cut out circles.

The one I made

The one I saw

            

Now as most of my close friends know,  I require quite a bit of "thinking time" for any project I am going to do.  This means that I don't plan anything out on paper or make a sample.  Instead, I just think about a project for an unusual amount of time. In this case it was about 3 weeks from the day I picked up (a.k.a. stole) the paint samples to the the day I started the project.

I first cut the paint strips into 1 inch pieces using my quilting mat, quilter's ruler, and a rotary tool.  I did this while I watched a movie with Josh. I love any kind of mindless work.

Next I set out my pieces.  As you can see on the top left picture, some pieces were naturally longer than others due to different widths of the samples.  I liked this. I then started hot-gluing them on a piece of clear thread.  I did not measure or anything.  I just placed them how I saw fit.  This got A LOT easier as I went and I eventually got into a groove where I could glue fairly fast.  The hard part was that I then had to glue another piece on the back. This was not so fun to line all these little pieces up.  Although, this did get easier.

When I was done gluing I just tied each thread onto a mobile topper I had bought at goodwill about 2 years ago.  (yes, 2 years ago) I attached a piece of ribbon and stuck it above the crib.  I think it looks great! Total cost ZERO DOLLARS! (If you only count things I bought this year)