I'm excited to share this gallery wall we created in Cricket's new room. (I'm planning to show you a full room tour very soon.) You've seen several of these items in previous posts—all significant in their own ways. Now we have them displayed together in a place that's easy for Cricket to view but out of reach from her tiny and destructive hands.
You saw the "Oh darling, let's be adventurers" photo and inspiration here. Since I wanted to print the photo in a large square size (12x12 inches) and couldn't find a frame I liked in those dimensions, I decided to mount it on a wooden 12x12-inch plaque from Michael's. To make the sides of the unfinished plaque blend with the photo, I painted them a shade of beige that matches the sand. Then I adhered the photo to the plaque with mod podge. This project was my first attempt with mod podge, and the photo ended up bubbling a bit in the middle; I should have set a book on top of the photo as the glue was drying. Regardless, it turned out well and makes Cricket smile.
You saw the "Oh darling, let's be adventurers" photo and inspiration here. Since I wanted to print the photo in a large square size (12x12 inches) and couldn't find a frame I liked in those dimensions, I decided to mount it on a wooden 12x12-inch plaque from Michael's. To make the sides of the unfinished plaque blend with the photo, I painted them a shade of beige that matches the sand. Then I adhered the photo to the plaque with mod podge. This project was my first attempt with mod podge, and the photo ended up bubbling a bit in the middle; I should have set a book on top of the photo as the glue was drying. Regardless, it turned out well and makes Cricket smile.
  Remember the delightful baby spoon I wrote about here, which belonged to Cricket's great-grandmother? I thought this gallery wall would be the perfect place for it, so I bought a 5x7-inch frame, wrapped the glass in a scrap of linen and hung the spoon from a ribbon on the outside of the linen-covered glass. We hung the gallery while Cricket was sleeping. When I showed it to her the next morning, she immediately pointed to the spoon and shouted, "Spoon!" I didn't even realize she knew the word spoon or that she would understand that the thing hanging in the frame with the curly handle was a spoon. I'm looking forward to the time when she discovers her great-grandmother's name and birth year engraved on the handle. The countdown to baby is really on; we have just a few more weeks to try to finish up our lengthy list of cleaning and home projects! (See Cricket's completed toddler room tour here.) |    |
