DIY decor with vinyl wall art | giveaway | little free radical

We have another great giveaway for you today from Vinyl Wall Art!

I've shared several times here recently about using vinyl decals with DIY projects including bookshelves & prant boxes.  I totally ♥ decals!  They are SO easy to use and far less time consuming then having to paint wall murals or detail work on smaller DIY projects! You can have a great piece of art in just minutes!

Remember our IKEA PRÄNT box hack? I used these awesome birch tree decals that Vinyl Wall Art was nice enough to custom-resize & inverse for me:

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I love their decals - I first found them when I was pregnant and drooling over thousands of decal listings on Etsy. I wanted a tree for Sophie. I looked at dozens, but kept going back to Vinyl Wall Art's tree... And of course when I went to order their tree, I saw the birds! So I ordered the tree & the birds for Sophie's wall.

My husband painted her nursery on Mothers Day 2010 for me, and then after 2 weeks (recommended time for paint to dry before applying decals) he put them up for me:

 

Sophie loves her room, and one of her first words was "owl" (pronounced "all) - she'd stand in the crib looking up at her owl in the morning. She likes her birds along her crib rail too. :)


I loved Vinyl Wall Art's Forest Decal Kit but didn't have a good wall in her room to use them, so I figured when we buy a house, I'd put them in her new room! 

Then one day, my college roommate, who is adopting a baby from Korea,  posted photos of her daughters room which have the tree decals I love, so I asked her if I can post some pictures of Zoey's room!

Vinyl Wall Art has a ton of other awesome decals on their website as well as available through etsy. And they were kind enough to offer to sponsor a giveaway for our readers for $25 gift certificates for 2 lucky winners so you can try their projects for your own home or DIY projects!

Wall Vinyl Art will provide a "voucher" that is as good as a PayPal credit - you can use it to pay for the item as well as shipping cost - what ever you want. It will maintain a positive balance until used, so you don't have to use it all at once if you want to buy a few small decals at a time!

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CIRKUSTÄLT children's tent makeover | ikea hack | little free radical

When I went to IKEA last fall to get the LÄTT children's table & chairs and APA toybox for Sophie, I saw this awesome little CIRKUSTÄLT children's tent  on display for just $19.99!!!

of course for that price I wanted to buy it, even if I disliked the colors but loved the shape/style and the size of the tent!

Of course, when you offer a tent for under $20, everyone wants one, so IKEA in Stoughton was sold out. I went home and looked online to see if New Haven, CT had any... then looked IKEA to IKEA to see if I could have a friend of of state ship one to me. everyone was sold out. and I was bummed. I found it on eBay in UK, but international shipping would have meant I'd pay $65 for the $20 tent, so I stalked IKEAs product availability online for weeks waiting til they got the tent back in stock.

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But all the weeks of waiting gave me plenty of time to plot exactly what I did want to do with my tent!

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creating toy storage with IKEA products | d.i.y. organization | little free radical

Since I've spent the last week posting DIY projects I did in my daughters room, today, I'm going to show you how I put all these projects together using IKEA's Expedit Bookcase for toy storage!

Originally, I had started out using itso cubes from Target (which I had already owned) for toy storage. It worked great, but as a parent in a wheelchair, I had a hard time reaching bins that low on the floor to clean up & get toys.

I tried re-stacking them differently but felt it was too risky to stack the cubes too high in case my 1 year old decided they would be great to climb. Instead, I started from scratch with toy organization.

First, I went through all the toys & resold the ones my daughter had 'outgrown' or had no interest in. Then I had some $$$ to work with to buy something to organize with, and I could see what I had left for toys to work with!

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creative ways to hang art | d.i.y. | little free radical

For National Crafts Month DIY projects #9 & #10, I thought I'd show two easy ways to display art! I'm sure we've all been guilty of having random pieces of artwork left unframed for prolonged periods of time, right?

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bringing life to APA toybox | d.i.y. IKEA hack | little free radical

I don't know how many times I passed by this boring little white box in the children's section at IKEA. It's only $14.99 but pretty plain and it didn't match my daughters room so I didn't give it much thought... until I saw the $20 LÄTT children's table & chairs displayed next to it...

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making drawstring sacks for toy storage | inspired by pinterest | little free radical

I ♥ Pinterest.
There are plenty of fantastic tutorials on there that I likely wouldn't have otherwise stumbled upon.

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making a shade for GRÖNÖ lamps | d.i.y. IKEA hack | little free radical

For this week, my DIY Tutorials for National Craft Month are IKEA Hacks!!! Yesterday, I re-featured my LÄTT children's table & chairs makeover, and I have several other IKEA products I "hacked" that I'll be featuring this week! Today's hack is Ikea's GRÖNÖ lamps! You can find this set of lamps at IKEA for $19.99!

 

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This is a super easy project! If you can operate a sewing machine, you can make this! It's all straight lines and you can do it in 30 minutes (or less!)

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how-to: make wall shelves for kids | d.i.y. | little free radical

Since today is March 2nd - which means it's Dr. Seuss birthday and National Read Across America Day, I thought I'd make today's DIY project Seuss/reading themed!

This is a DIY project I've been slowly working on for my daughter that I finally completed the other day!  CLICK HERE to Read More

how-to: recover a canvas bin | d.i.y. | little free radical

I was in search of some bins to coordinate with the decor in my daughters room, but everything I was finding were the wrong shades. I saw several patterns to make your own floating around pinterest & various DIY blogs, but I wanted something guaranteed to be sturdy for a 1 year old - to hold toys like blocks.

I was cleaning out closets when I found a couple of canvas bins I had purchased 8 years ago from The Container Store. I was trying to make up my mind about keeping them or not when I realized they were just a canvas cover attached onto the wire frame with VELCRO! And I had an "ah-ha! moment!" - why not replace the covers on these old bins with different fabric?

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I tried it. It worked! and it was pretty easy too! I had 2 of them. it took me under an hour each (photos included).  CLICK HERE to Read More