Like a library book : crafty project one & two

I am overdue. Three days may not seem like long, but it's an eternity when you're sitting around waiting for contractions to start. I've gotten crafty to keep myself busy. Literally.


Project 1: Curtains were too short.
So I decided to add dangly bits. I thought felt, and went to Fiber Notion in Park Slope, where they were awesome. Convinced me to expand my color palette beyond being matchy-matchy with the orange and red, and I came home with a pile of felt and some fun little balls and a plan to make pennants. But then measured and realized I only had three inches to add. Steve helped with the design (and cut out most of the little yellow circles), and on Friday, that's what I did. I sewed little pennants onto the curtain bottoms.












Project 2: try to un-Ikea the Ikea dresser.

(This was much less involved, but also involved co-opting the kitchen table for most of Friday and a bit of Saturday).

Steve is allergic to Ikea. He got a bit, um, stressed out when there were many objects of Ikea origin becoming nursery decor. So I promised him that as much as possible, I'd adulterate, so the Ikea part became a mere raw ingredient.


Steve's client Iliana gave us this cheerful red Ikea dresser. It's very handy, and already full of baby gear. I figured as a minimum, at least I could change the knobs. So I got plain wood knobs, painted them orange, and then decided on a little airplane/cloud motif. I am not the best painter, but you can kind of tell they are clouds and airplanes. Not sure if you can tell in this picture, but trust me.

Project three in a new post...