bella's letters.

i'm in the process of planning out bella's new "big girl room". we decided since we're having another girl, how great it would be to just leave bella's current nursery basically as is and add a few special touches for emmy. makes my job a whole lot easier, and i love bella's crib bedding and the girlie (think pink!), vintage-y way we decorated her nursery. when we get furniture rearranged and the last few decorating endeavors finished, i'll be sure to post a pic of emmy's soon-to-be-pad.

i've decided i wanted to do a vintage-eclectic room for bel. lots of color, and mis-matchy things (is that even a word? aaahh well. i vote yes). i ordered these sheets from target:

love them. complete with a white bedspread and a colorful, pretty quilt at the foot of her bed it will be perfect. i've got a bunch of ideas swirling around in this head of mine, but i'm trying to take one project at a time. which includes projects all over our house... so it's all definitely a work in progress. but one that i enjoy... if i'm patient enough with the process :)

i wanted to do something different for bella's letters in her new room. this was how her name was displayed in her nursery:

i think this is how i'll do emmy's name since i still have these frames. aaaand i happen to think it's super cute. but i knew i wanted to change it up for bel, and when i saw this image on pinterest and was immediately inspired.

going to be scouring the yard now for a good branch. since i already had her wooden letters (i ordered them from this site; super inexpensive and i love them!), this project was easy and inexpensive. i toyed with the idea of doing the fabric-covered-thing, but decided on a shortcut (after all, i am pregnant... that's always a good excuse to keep things simple, right?!).

enter: modpodge and scrapbook paper. i chose turquoise, pink, red and coral as my main colors since those are in her sheets, and picked out some pretty paper at joanns. then it was simple. i just traced each letter onto the paper, cut it out and modpodged away. here is my final product:

i love how it turned out. can't wait to hang them from a branch in her new room :)