A Little Homemade Mobile...

Hi all, I am finally back with a blog post featuring something I have made!!! Today I am going to share the mobile I made for my son's nursery. Right from the start I new I wanted something that wasn't plastic or cheap for a mobile. I also knew I didn't want to spend 70+ bucks for something that usually ended up not working after a while. There was also the issue of not finding one that fit my "ideals". Cue husband shuddering in background. So at the end of the day I decided I was going to make one. Okay, lets be more realistic - coming from a very crafty family, I was always going to make one.

In keeping with my theme, I chose to make a mobile of elephants using colors that (thanks to my diaper pail) made up the nursery.

I started by drawing out a template on some plain white card stock. I got mine from Staples. I used an elephant punch from Martha Stewart as my Elephant inspiration. I wanted the mobile to look cute and not so real.

Once I was pleased with my templates, I cut them out and traced the outline onto some felt. I used this teal color (was as close as I could get to my robins egg blue diaper pail), grey, and white. As soon as that job was done, I began the tedious job of cutting out all the pieces. There were a lot!

The next step was sewing two of the same pieces together, but leaving about an inch opening so that I could stuff them. Once all the pieces were sewn and stuffed and sewn again, I started piecing them all together. 

I spray painted a wood floral wreath in semi-gloss white spray paint. Used the existing pre-drilled holes to hang my threaded elephants and birds, and voila...my mobile. 

I also added some beads in between the shapes to make the mobile more interesting. Everything was triple knotted and glossy accents were added to double ensure that the mobile would not fall apart. Small broken pieces and babies mouths don't mix, ya know. 

I have also added some blue, white, and silver ribbon from which I plan to hang it. Since baby B has just started sleeping in his own room, I have yet to hang the mobile. As soon as hubs is back from up North, this bad boy is going up and B's room will be complete! Yippe! I'll update this post as soon as the mobile is hung!

Have a happy fall afternoon!! 

:)