Lobolita

Inspired by this and this, I got some pegboard to hang up in my studio-cum-Gideon’s room. Since he’ll be scooting around soon, it’s important that we find places to put things that will be out of his reach. Enter the pegboard. Since it came in a dingy, scuffed white, I decided to make it into a bit of wall art for our growing boy. The motifs came from this fabric, which I won a yard of from the fabulous Sew Mama Sew blog.

First, I painted the board bright orange, using an inexpensive sample-sized tub of Behr paint from Home Depot. Using the fabric as a reference, I freehand drew the elephant and the tree onto the board in pencil, then used a foam brush to paint in the accent colors, both of which came from the clearance rack of miss-mixed paint, and cost 50 cents and 1 dollar, respectively.

All that’s left is to mount it high on the wall of the room and put hooks in it to hang up my tools and tidbits in a handy-dandy fashion.