Flower Power In About An Hour
In today's society, time is something we have very little of,
and every moment we spend with our family and friends has become
so precious. I recently had an experience with decorating my
daughters room that made the best of my precious time and found
it to be a special bonding moment with my daughter that I will
never forget.
My daughter is almost three now and has always had a fascination
with flowers. She will pick any flower (even some weeds) and
give them to me as a special gift. I've always wanted to fill
her room with the bright flowers that she loved so much. I never
made it much further than to purchase some bedding with flowers
on it that was on sale at target. I've never thought of myself
as much of a designer or artist, but I found myself inspired to
finish my daughters room when I ran across some brightly colored
daisy wall stick ups from Presto Chango Decor.com.
(http://www.prestochangodecor.com/) My inspiration came from an
idea that was mentioned on there website stating that their
flower stickers could be placed on foam board/posterboard and
cut out to make a curtain valance or even placed on the
furniture. I purchase both a large and small set of their daisy
pop flowers and expanded a little on some of their idea's.
First I planned to make a curtain valance. I bought some poster
board that can be found at an art supply store, office supply,
or even target that cost about two dollars for a 4ft.x 4ft.
sheet. I first I measured the curtain rods in my daughters room
and made sort of a half box out of the posterboard. My window
just happened to be small enough to do this with the 4ft of
posterboard, but keep in mind that if your window is larger than
this it might be fine because the flower appliqu