Star Wars Returns

I finally finished a room!! I started with the "big boy" room because I loved it so much when I did it in our last house, I decided just to do it the same way, SO not much REALLY new here, but I'm just happy to have a room completed - well, almost...

When we moved in, we bought the boys new bunk beds. They have the biggest room in the house, so I liked the idea of having extra bed space for guest...humpf...hint hint. I kept the same bedding which barely fits on the bottom full bed (twin comforter), but I didn't want to have to buy new bedding when I liked this one so much. The curtains are way too long, but I plan on hemming them next time I'm near a sewing machine. Hence the, "almost" completed. Note: Tuesday Morning carries inexpensive curtains.

The bathroom has a HUGE closet so Caedon gets that while Zane gets a smaller closet and the dresser. Their clothes are getting so big! That little R2D2 was Chris' when he was a kid. The book is the super cool pop up book that I got for an amazing deal on Amazon one day. It's really cool. The kids looked at it for hours when it came. THEN later, they found even more secret pages and pop ups in it.

 

I found this storage unit at Kmart for $18. The fake wood didn't match the rest of the room, so I decided to go funky with it and paint it bright yellow. I put some cute little legs on the bottom of it, but they didn't hold. I'm hoping to find a way to attach them back on, but better. I got a bit creative with their names this time (probably too much coffee that day). If the ribbon wasn't already on them, I probably would have left it off.

These pillows were from the old room. I had bought them at Target and added the character silhouettes.

So I know it's anti-HGTV to have an open bathroom in a room, but that's an old house for you. It's not changing unless we hit the jackpot. The mirror was painted this gold old lady color, so I decided to go a little wild with it, too. I'm still on the fence about it. I decided to add more Star Wars paraphernalia along the ledge in their bathroom. Luckily, we had plenty.

These canvases are new. My favorite is R2D2's head. Caedon felt he was an expert when helping with the X-Wing fighters. Apparently, I didn't do them correctly. I was just going off the print I found online. And the "FLUSH" sign, well, let's just say, I wasn't just being cute. BOYS!!!

Well, that's their room. I'm really overwhelmed by all the decorating that awaits me in this house. But I'm trying just to take it one room at a time. Now, which one to start on next?

India Study

 For school this last couple weeks, we've been studying India. There were some art projects suggested by our curriculum, but I decided to come up with my own. After a little research, it turns out I'm not the first one to come up with this idea, which is nice to see how others went about it. I wanted to have them draw the Taj Mahal, but have a little bit of an art lesson along with it. I thought it'd be a great lesson on symmetry  I found an easy (ish) drawing of the Taj Mahal, erased half of it in Photoshop, then printed it. (In hindsight, I could have just cut it with scissors after I printed it - haha).
 

First, I had them fold a blank piece of paper in half to make a crease, then open it back up, lining up the crease with center of the Taj Mahal printout. We put it on a lightbox so they could trace it (yay for my old scrapbooking supplies).

Then they retraced their paper with a charcoal pencil (yay for my hubby's old art supplies). I wanted them to do it the first time with a pencil so they could erase it if they needed to. We really could have just traced it the first time with the charcoal pencil.

We then folded the paper in half again with the drawing inside the fold and rubbed it onto the other half with the handle part of a pair of scissors. You have to rub REALLY hard to get it to transfer.

It made a pretty decent impression, but we had to go over the new half with a pencil just to darken it some.

 Even Jack (3 years old) participated. He did most of his tracing himself! 

Then, he decided to add a little extra to it. Lol!