Oh The Places You'll Go!

Did I show you this Salvation Army find?  How cute is he?!

I am debating painting him, or leaving him... part of me sees a light white paint application, part of me wants to make him pink, and another part likes him as he is....

I painted this dresser last year, and haven't sold it, so I started redoing it AGAIN so that I can use is in my sons room.  The plan is to paint the whole thing blue/black [to go in his blue room] and then wallpaper the framed out sections of the drawers with map wallpaper.

I've gotten most of the black painted, but wouldn't ya' know it, the wallpaper I had my eye on is out of stock!  My job tonight will be to research an alternate wallpaper to use.

I also am making some art to go above it, the theme of this room redo is 'Oh the places you'll go'.  

He's almost 9.  

NINE!  

I can not believe it!  And he's gotten so big,and what he'll do in the future and what he'll become ... well the options are endless, and I am just so proud of him.

For such an interesting, vibrant boy, his room is so... blah!  And he's kind of 'over' the construction trucks/Disney items we used in the past. So it's time for a 'bigger boy' room, I guess.

I bought these wall sticker things, and some canvases....

I made a template of the stickers and painted the canvases around the template...

Here's how they came out:

Originally I wanted to put these on distressed aged wood... and I may add some grey to these to put more background on them, but for now, they're done and the hunt for map wallpaper continues!

I have lots of other projects I'm working on, including several dog/doll beds:

This was a small table I bought at a garage sale and was going to make into a bed with the full length legs, but then I decided to cut them....

And use a small part of the legs as 'feet' under the bed....

Just need mattresses and bedding and sanding and painting...