A Place for Eliza Jane’s Bows
As most of you know, we’re expecting a girl in early September.
In preparation of this sweet little girl arriving, I’ve been trying to find a few things that I can add to our nursery (no complete overhauls!) to make it more “girly”. Pinterest has certainly been involved and I found a fabulous idea the other day.
This bow frame (to any men wondering…, the thing on the right that’s really colorful!):
I mean, how cute is this!
I showed it to Andrew and he was a bit overwhelmed at first, “Thatsalotta bows”, he said.
I just nodded my head. “Burn {that’s his nick-name}, you’re about to enter a world you’ve never known. Get ready.”
The more I thought about this bow frame the more I was convinced that I could create my own. All I needed was a frame, some chicken wire and voila!
Hobby Lobby is where I found my frame (it was 50% off too, so SCORE!). Only “problem” was that it wasn’t white and I knew I wanted it white. Well, I just painted a patio set with spray paint (see this blog post for that story!) so surely that would work. Just to be sure, I asked one of the nice ladies in the custom frame section and she said spray paint would work just fine.
Here’s my frame. I wanted something elegant, not too busy, but not too plain.
Before painting, to be sure I didn’t damage the paint, I went ahead and secured the back hanger. Also, I wanted the chicken wire to be white like the frame, so I went ahead and got it fastened to the back:
I did wear my little garden gloves because I wasn’t quite sure if this stuff was going to be vicious or not. It was a bit confusing at first because some person somewhere decided to use a piece of wiring to wrap it around (and through!!) the roll of chicken wire. So after a “grrr” moment, I had a piece rolled out and was plotting the next steps.
Product info: I used Hex Netting, Malla Hexagonal in 2 inch mesh. (I feel so smart right now after having said all that). Really the only reason I got 2 inch over 1 was that the 1 inch looked too small and I knew Andrew was praying she wouldn’t end up with that many bows.
I used my trusty staple gun (he’s been with me for about 14 years), going around the entire frame securing at the twist in the wire.
Once secured, I used a pair of wire cutters and cut just on the other side of the twist and then used some needle-nose pliers to bend the wire back over the staple. Then I went around with my hammer, tap, tap, tapping everything to make it flat and even more secure.
The finished view of the back:
“Finished {but yet, not} view from the front:
I mean, it’s pretty darn cute like this (above), but…I think the white (below) just makes it look so sweet and not quite so formal!
This is her first (and only, so far) bow…the one I’d bought a few weeks before we found out “it” was going to be a girl…and also the bow I used to announce to the world (Facebook is the world, right?) that we were having a girl!
Can’t wait to get little Eliza Jane some more bows to fill up this project!
ps…this was the last of the weekend’s projects! 🙂