Legendary Letters

For Jessica's 22nd birthday I gave her a Hawkeye hoody and some wooden letters that spelled Ethan and Noah. I thought it could be a fun project to paint them the colors of the boys crib sets and we could hang them above each crib. Jessica got way more creative than I did and she came up with some ideas of how to paint them. Before the letters went on the walls, the boys room was bare. We had one small picture on one wall and that was it. This one simple creative paint job changed the boys room from an empty cell into their own special place. They each had their own crib now and they loved it. After we finished the ones for Ethan and Noah, some of our friends asked if we would make some for them. We felt it was a nice gift to celebrate new babies being born. These were the boys crib colors that we did our best to match. We also tried to stay with the circle patterens.We used just the basic acrylic toll paints that can be purchased at Walmart or any other crafty store. The paint itself was not very expensive and the letters at walmart were about $1.70 each.

The larger but thinner circles were made just by rolling a piece of cardstock paper and dipping in the paint. The smaller solid circles were made using the cheap orange earplugs that you would find in the hunting and gun section. They are about a centimeter in diameter and worked perfect for what we wanted. The earplugs do start to swell as they get filled with paint so you need to replace them every once in a while.

This is one we did for one of our friends in Wisconsin

This one we did for my sister when she had her first baby.