Flys

Maxton is a fast growing young lad.  We bought him a toddler bed in March and by June, he had outgrown it.  Looking back we should have just bought him a twin bed then and not even bothered with the toddler bed.  Live and learn.

When we decided to get him a new bed, I decided that it was also time to change the decor of his room.  I love his Where the Wild Things Are decorations so much.  But since that was how we decorated his room when he was a baby it was time to change it up.  Originally when I thought about changing his room I had wanted to do vintage robots.  He has a few Funko Pop robots on a shelf in his room but I was having a hard time finding anything else that wasn't out of my budget expensive.  I happened to be at Home Goods one day with a friend when I came across a canvas wrap and fell in love with it.

Vintage (and non-vintage) planes became to new decor idea.  A long time ago I had played around with the idea of doing planes, I just wasn't sure if I would be able to find anything other then model planes and a new pictures.  Then came Pinterest.  That black hole that we all know and love.  (Funny side note, a couple girlfriends and I who got married around the same time, think that we should get do-overs on our wedding planning and get to have Pinterest weddings.)  So many awesome pictures and ideas flooded my screen.  Sadly several of the things that I would like to get are still a bit out of my price range.  I would love to find a replica propeller but they are crazy expensive!

Probably my favorite thing in his room right now is the duvet cover I scored from Pottery Barn Kids.  I love to peruse their website every once in a while and dream buying all the things for Max's room.  Most of the time however, the things I would like to purchase are not on sale and even some things that are on sale are still too much.  I happened to be looking at bedding 4th of July weekend and they were having a big sale.  Lots of stuff on clearance and then an extra 40% off clearance items.  Can it be I thought?  Can I actually purchase the duvet cover I want?  Sure enough!  Ended up paying $32 for a $70 duvet cover.  Not too bad.  And it could not be more perfect for his room.  When I had mentioned to my mom about wanting to redecorate Max's room the first thing she said was "So I suppose you're going to want to paint in there too?"  Nope.  I LOVE his two orange walls.  Most of the vintage planes things I find are blue and red.  But the PBK duvet cover is blue and green and orange!  I don't think it could be any more perfect for his room!  Even the curtains in his room go with the duvet cover!  They have kind of a vintage feel to them.

This week I decided that I wanted to add something to his room.  Pictures for the walls are still coming, I just need to make up my mind which ones I want.  I have a marquee U in our living room and Max loves turning it on and looking at it.  So why not get one for his room.  He had a big orange M in his room already so I wanted to find some that spelled out a word.  Max and I headed to Michaels to see what they had.  In their summer clearance section there was a couple shelves with buffed silver marquee letters that would have been perfect.  Alas because this was the clearance section I was only able to find one letter I needed.  There were a couple other styles of marquee letters but I couldn't find one that I liked.  Then I came upon a display of DIY sets that were also on clearance!  Yippy!  And thank goodness I was able to dig and find all three letters that I needed!  The sets come with stencils for the letters so that you can use scrap book paper for the background or paint them.  I was hoping to find some paper with some sort of airplanes which I was unable to do.  We even went to Craft Wearhouse which has a very large selection of scrap book paper and they had none.  I was surprised and sad.  Instead I picked out some vintage looking stripes in red, white and blue.  I showed Max and he happened to see the other side and turned it over.  Dark blue with vintage looking little stars.  Perfect!  Thankfully it didn't take very long to put them together.  Although I was missing my Exacto knife when it came to cutting the little circles out for the lights.  A regular razor blade was a tad hard to work with.  I am so happy with how they turned out and how great they look in Max's room!

I just love the little stars.  Maybe if some day I find paper with planes I will change it out.  For now I think they look great.  I had thought about using them for a night light since Max sleeps with one on, but they are too bright.  Even just one is too bright  I would love to get this night light for him some day from PBK but again not in my budget.

Now to decide on pictures.  I'm leaning toward some cool patent blue prints I've found and some cool photos of WW2 planes.  Thank you once again Pinterest, you haven't let me down yet.