I did not know if I wanted to decorate our door or not. Then I decided I would!
I decided I would make a small rag wreath for the door. Of course it would be a nautical theme. I lucked out and found the perfect fat quarters with anchors on them at Walmart. I also purchased some fat quarters at Joanns along with some red fabric and white dots. I felt like I need an equal amount of patterned and solid fabrics to make it work.
While browsing on Party City, I just happened to find this banner that magically fell in my cart!!!!
There is one more item I purchased at Dollar Tree that I may or may not use. I can’t make up my mind. I will probably leave it at home as I don’t really like the idea of having glitter everywhere! It might just stay on my front door instead.
I will be using Command Strips to attach them to our stateroom door. I use command strips for EVERYTHING that needs to be hung in our stateroom, including the over-the-door shoe hanger. I strongly recommend them, hands down!!!!
This the extent of my stateroom door decorations. I will be sure to post of picture of our stateroom door when I start the cruise recap series.
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Once again, it is time to make Kimmie’s Disney Theme frame for her Photo with Santa her kids do every year. I decided that this years them is Toy Story. Of course, every frame requires a shopping adventure!!!!
My first stop was to Party City. I found a couple of things that could possibly work for the idea in my head, but I needed to see the items up close. I decided on an 11 piece table decoration set. I know there are pieces that I will not need, but the three I had in mind would work perfectly.
My next stop was to Hobby Lobby. Luckily, I knew what I was looking for so I didn’t stray from the task at hand. I decided on a frame that would resemble a fence and this one is exactly what I had in mind. I also purchased a sticker set that had blingy MERRY CHRISTMAS and also Christmas lights. and a couple jingle bell necklaces that I thought I could repurpose the bells for this frame. Unfortunately, I did not remember to take a picture of the stickers, but it definitely is on the finished project.
My final stop was to Michaels. For the first time in a very long time, I only purchased what I knew I needed. Varathane premium fast dry wood stain in weathered gray and Varathane ultimate polyurethane water based, crystal clear gloss.
Now that I have all the supplies I would need to purchase, it was time to get started on the Disney Toy Story inspired frame. The figures I decided to use o this project were Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie. I trimmed them down to remove as much of the red background that I could. I know it isn’t perfect, but that’s okay.
I decided to not sand down the frame as I wanted it to feel like a fence so stained the frame. And it only took one coat of stain!!! I love the color and I have plans for other projects to use this stain on!!!
Once the stain dried, and it did dry fast, it was time to paint the inner portion of the frame. I used a white acrylic paint I had on hand that I purchased either from Hobby Lobby or found on Amazon.
After the white paint dried, it was time to decide on the numeric stickers I had on hand. I was not sure of the size of numbers would be best so I sent pictures to Kimmie to let her decide.
She decided on the smaller numbers so I placed them at the bottom of the frame and tried to decide on the placement of the Toy Story characters. I decided that I thought I would add character if I could place Jessie at the top of the frame to make her look like she was climbing over or something like that. So, this is the final placement of the characters with the Merry Christmas sticker below Jessie and the Christmas Lights stickers around the white frame. Jingle bells were added to Jessie’s hands and are held in place using E6000 glue. The 2021 stickers were so old they would not stick on their own so I used my Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to keep them in place.
I am currently in discussions with my daughter regarding next year’s frame. I think it my be Disney Aladdin inspired. My mind is going crazy with all of the possibilities for the 2022 theme.
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