and made it a bookend...
As I said last week, my daughter no longer has a changing pad filling the top of her dresser so I had some extra room to play. I had my eyes peeled for some bookends but just couldn't find the right thing. Well, that isn't entirely true. I found some of the right things with the wrong budgets and some of the right budgets but the wrong thing.
For example, I loved these bookends from Serena & Lily, but the price - $54 - not so much!
And I loved the price on these babies - $4.58 - but um they are hideous!
So what is a DIYer to do? Oh yeah, DIY! So I picked up these cardboard houses from Michael's for a few bucks a piece.
I also bought some stones, from the floral section, as I knew I would need to weight them down.
Once I filled the houses with stones I started spray painting. The cardboard absorbed quite a but of the paint so it took 4 coats to get them covered.
After letting them dry I fished through my scrap fabric bin, cut out doors and windows, glued them on and my houses were now bookends! And both my style & budget where happy.
