Well guys, I am sharing something near and dear to me today... about two years ago now, I ran across this pin:
This
is the Land of Nod baby bird mobile. It's unfortunately not available
on their website any longer, but I do remember looking at it on their
website and it was something like $80.00. Holy
mackerel. It's cute and all but I wasn't sure it was worth 80 bucks. I
was inspired (Pinspired!) to make something like that but even more cute
and more affordable.
Now,
if you're anything like me, I like to copy EXACTLY what I see on
Pinterest. If it doesn't match pretty dang perfectly, I get a little
bummed. It's such a bad habit, because I know Pinterest is there to
spark creativity but sometimes it's hard to not compare yours to the
perfectly photographed, perfectly lit, perfectly coiffed version. I
actually read an interesting blog post on this once, I'll have to see if
I can dig it up.
BUT,
I was determined this time to be inspired, not run out and grab blue,
green and white yarn. A lot of that was determined by the fact that I
can't crochet, knit, etc. to save my life. Haha. What I can do though is
sew, so enter my version:
I
used a variety of grosgrain ribbons, a super cute monkey and "baby"
fabric and it was all done in green so it's unisex... a great gift for
those expecting but waiting to find out the sex. I did hand sew each of
the birds (it gets faster the more you do, haha). This project was
really a matter of trial and error... it was really awesome to just be
creative with a general idea in mind, hence why this project is so near
and dear to my heart... it was really a release of creativity and it was
just an awesome feeling to see it complete!
It
is available to purchase... hence why no tutorial (and the fact this
took me almost 2 years to complete means no in-progress pictures...
sorry about that.) It's available in the Little Oak Creations Etsy shop, please check it out sometime!
Thanks
for reading! I hope that you can find inspiration from this post...
take something you see and make it your own and make it awesome! :)
Super cute! Love this! xo
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