Life as we go it

Wayyyyyy back in March of this year, a few weeks before Chloe was born, the ladies in my Crafty Club surprised me with a really cool Wall Alphabet craft. I arrived at my friend Sarah's house expecting to do an Easter-themed craft, and voila! The ladies had secretly planned to make this alphabet instead & give it to me as a baby gift :)

Fast forward almost 6 months and we FINALLY have it hanging up in Chloe's room!! 

There are various reasons why it took me so long to get it on the wall: 1) The ladies had a hard time getting all of the letters to stay fastened together. Sarah and Joy hot-glued the letters together prior to dropping it off at our house & it broke into various pieces when it arrived.  2) I had planned to reinforce it with hot glue and hang it up in the nursery before the baby arrived, but Chloe came two weeks earlier than expected! and 3) I'm a professional procrastinator. It took me this long to just sit down and get it done! 

When I finally sat down a couple of weeks ago to work on it I found that using overlapping sheets of clear contact paper on the back + hot gluing the living heck out of it was the best way to secure it.

First I placed the letters onto clear contact paper...

Then I applied a BOATLOAD of hot glue in any spot where it 

wouldn't be too noticeable...

Once the glue was set and dried I flipped the whole thing over and x-acto

knifed away the most noticeable (and structurally unimportant) parts of the contact paper...

I then secured floral wire around some of the letters and attached a hanging wire on the back.

Here are some photos of the final project, hanging above Chloe's crib:

 Each of the letters were decorated amongst the seven of us...

And a couple photos of some of the other art in her room...

        Thank you Sarah, Joy, Andi, Janine, Erin and Stephanie for the nice addition to Chloe's room!!

Between the seven of us ladies we painted and decorated all TWENTY SIX letters of the alphabet within a couple of hours.

As the letters were finished we laid them out to dry.

Here are the pink and blue flowers that Sarah surprised me with :)

And flipping delicious peanut buttery bars.

Oh how I could have eaten the entire pan by myself...

Here are all of the letters complete. Obviously they're not laid out & glued together

properly yet. Sarah and I decided it'd be easier to just bring the stack of letters over to

my house and we'll glue them all together here. I'm excited to see it hanging on the wall

when it's all done, which I will share with you soon :)