Studio j: It's a jungle in there...

We've now been in our home for almost 11 years and there is one room in which we have done no remodeling. It has been one of the most used rooms - the nursery for each of the kids and now our youngest child's bedroom. He's 5 (going on 6), so we figured it was finally time to get the toddler bed out and get him a regular sized bed. With that, an overhaul of the room was due. However, it contains the last of the wallpaper in the house and if the wallpaper stripping experience in one of the other bedrooms is any indication of what might lie ahead we knew now was not the time to tackle wallpaper removal. The floor was wood when we moved in (one of only two rooms with the wood showing back then) and in need of refinishing, but that too will wait. So, rather than being remodeled, his room is undergoing a simple face lift. Even with only that though, it has become one of my favorite rooms in the house. Since before he was born I knew his "big boy" room would have a jungle theme. For years I've gathered jungle themed items on clearance at Target, been given some by a friend, and even received adorable lion wall hooks as a baby gift.

A few months ago I started gathering supplies to make some art for the wall: canvases, paint, vinyl jungle animals. This week I painted the canvases to ready them for the vinyl animals - the plan was a pop art style grouping with bright colors. I liked the idea, but then a bigger idea popped into my head. What if I dressed the canvas up a bit by adding some fabric? I grabbed my scrap fabric basket and started pulling out coordinating colors and started snipping away. Happy with the result, I used spray adhesive (for the first time ever) to adhere the fabric. I really like how they turned out. I have another canvas and a cute vinyl "alphagator" for another wall in the room, but I messed up when painting it and ran out of the correct paint, so that will have to wait for a few days.