I decided to decorate some wooden letters to put on my daughter's bedroom door. First problem I encountered was that I couldn't get the right letters! However I didn't let this stop me- I bought two 'F's' and cut the middle stalk off and sanded them down to turn them into 'L's' :-) After they were ready I had to put on an undercoat and then paint them blue- next step to decorate them. Finished letters to follow in a post soon!
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I made this at the request of a friend of mine.
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Here is the finished doll's cot. I took apart the original cot, I sanded it down and re-painted it blue then I painted a woodland mural on both of the end panels. I then covered the whole thing in a protective top coat before putting it back together with new screws and washers. I made a mattress for the cot out of my daughters old Moses basket mattress and made a mattress cover and a doll sized baby sleeping bag out of some lovely foxy fabric that I found at a local haberdashery shop. I'm really pleased with the end result and I love the fact that something I played with as a child can get a new lease of life to be played with by my children.
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Here I have taken apart the original cot, sanded it down, re-painted and decorated it- it matches the toy box that I painted last year.
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I found my old doll's cot in my Mum's attic and decided to paint it up for my daughter as a present for when our second child arrives in the near future. These photos are of it before, after sanding and during painting- photos of the finished product to follow soon!
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These are a set of 26 blocks that I illustrated/hand painted for my daughter for her first birthday. Each block has six sides to include and upper case and lower case letter, a shape, a number, a black and white pattern and an illustration to correspond with the letter on that block.
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