BABY TIME Guest Post–Crafting for Kid’s Rooms

One of the things I love most about what was once my nursery is the bead board wainscot and the little shelf above it that runs around 2 entire walls in the room. This is the one thing I really wanted when I was pregnant with my first – enough to talk my brother-in-law into installing it and my mom into painting the room since my husband was deployed at the time. The shelf was mostly intended to be decorative but it also came in handy to hold the lotion and diaper cream above the changing table, or to put small things out of reach when I found them in a tiny baby hand. Since we moved my daughter out and my son in, I haven’t done much with the shelf so today is the day I change that.
I have all these fabric scraps left over from making the quilt for the bed and decided I would try modge podging them onto something. I love photos and never have enough ways to display them so I came up with the idea of making a pseudo bulletin board out of a blank canvas I’ve had sitting around (it’s been there since the painting class I took in college – 10 years ago! I’m such a craft pack rat). I say “pseudo” because I don’t think it would be a good idea to be making pin holes in the canvas.Supplies:
-canvas (mine was 16×20)
-fabric strips
-modge podge
-embellishments of any kind

I kept the canvas white because I liked the contrast, but you can, of course, paint it first if you don’t want the white. Then I put down a layer of modge podge where I wanted the first strip to go and smoothed the fabric over it.