You are my SUNSHINE

I LOVE the song "You are my sunshine" & sing it to my kids often. My 4 year old used to make me sing it over & over & over whenever we were driving in the car.

  Both of my boys still love the song & I'm sure I will sing it to our new baby very soon!

From the minute I started seeing the lyrics pop up all over blogland, I knew I wanted to make something with the lyrics for our baby boy's nursery!

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 Cellar Designs created this beautiful piece of art...

Love this one in a frame...

Oh, how about this one! I might need it for MY bedroom!

And there are SO MANY MORE, you can just search on Etsy or Pinterest & you will fall in LOVE.

I used Cellar Designs as my inspiration & then went to dig around for a piece of wood in the shed...

I found this cupboard door & decided it was the perfect size & loved how it would give it a "framed look"...

 It got a coat of light blue paint & then while it dried, I got on the computer & "designed" my wording how I wanted. I must have tried 30 different fonts & guess what I settled on?
Times New Roman.
I just liked the simplicity of it.

My cricut can cut 2 feet x 1 foot & this happened to be the exact size of the inner part of the cupboard door!
I think I did it about 11 inches x 22 inches, so I was able to cut it all at once!

 I cut it out of vinyl & then weeded out all of the letters, leaving a "stencil" that I then applied to the wood...

 then I took my brush and painted all of the "sunshines" with a pale yellow & the rest of the lyrics with white...

 after it dried, I pulled up the vinyl, leaving freshly painted letters & lightly sanded over the words & the edges of the door...

 I actually made that one to donate to an auction next week & chose to paint the one for the nursery all RED, since I'm working to bring more red in that room. Here they are, all finished!

I hung the red one in the nursery, but now I'm debating painting the "frame" part of the cupboard red so that it pops off the blue walls a bit more, 

but we will see...

The other one is not quite as bold, which will hopefully allow it to match someone else's decor easier, 

since it is being auctioned off at a family reunion...

the nursery is coming along!

Here is a sneak peak at one corner...

1. Used my same Brown, Tan & Blue Crib Bumper & Sheet that I had with my other boys

2. Made the Scalloped Blanket that I had been wanting to try!

3. Made a simple pendant banner for above his bed & will iron on his name in RED MATERIAL soon...we actually CHOSE A NAME!

4. Found red curtains on clearance last week at Walmart for $6

5.Covered his changing table in the same Dinosaur fabric that I made his scalloped blanket out of
6. The curtains came with red ties that I repurposed & sewed one around a pillow with a button in the center to make it a bit cuter!

7. And last but not least, hung his "Sunshine" board in the corner

All ready for our baby boy to arrive in a few weeks!!!