When I saw this on girl with fabric’s website, I immediately asked to borrow the idea. Turns out she saw a variation of it on Ohdeedoh, but either way, I think there are countless creative ways to riff on this idea.
You might set it up as a nursery decoration – the alphabet in it’s entirety – as fabric girl has done.
Or, make it an ongoing project to work on with your preschooler – whenever you’re out and about or on a special vacation, finding a letter to add to your letter collection would be a little thrill. Any reason to take Julian to thrift stores is exciting for me, and we have a bunch of awesome salvage stores around here that sell old signs. Surely a good place for us to start.
If you want to just do the whole thing upfront, you’ll probably have to buy and decorate some letters yourself. Fabric girl used mod-podge and papers. I might try fabric. Other ideas?
Whitney, I have a bunch of cute fabric remnants (and I bet you do too unless you recently purged your whole house) — we should do this soon!
This is a great idea for all those little onsies that your baby grows out of so quickly. Someone suggested to me that I cut them up and make a patchwork blanket out of them, but I don’t sew. But, I can cut them up and mod podge them onto letters!
Cute idea! I love how this looks.
Cool look!
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hi–I met you at Blogher and bought your book for my soon to arrive Grandbaby–anyway—I love this idea! and since the baby is not born yet–I have a few years (at least 2) to find all the letters—here I go to the Depot Of Creative Reuse (in Oakland)….what a great gift idea for a grandchild;-)
That is SO cute on the wall! I love this idea. Let the stealing commence! : )
I found an Etsy store (don’t remember which one0 where they sold letters made of the bendable craft wire bent into the letter of choice, wrapped in different fabric remnants then decorated with a few buttons or other notions and a simple rick rack or ribbon loop to hang on the wall. I was going to see what I could do with the idea cutting letters from cardboard and wrapping in fabric…the kids initials as ornaments and oversized for wall decor.
Thanks, Jennifer! I looked for what you were describing and found this one with wire letters that were hard for me to define as either urban or rustic. Wordmeisters, help me out!
I love this idea so much I’m going to start doing it. We’re already doing a magnet collection, and we need another kid-friendly collection idea in our house (I used to do mirrors from everywhere I traveled to but stopped that one when I stopped remembering where the mirrors are each from). For rookie moms who want to get all the letters at once, however, here’s an easy DIY idea I wish I had come across before I shelled out a lot of money on fancy letters: http://hintmama.com/2014/01/30/todays-hint-diy-budget-friendly-nursery-wall-letters/