Mommy Mondays: The Playroom …

This Sunday was a “Honey Do” kind of Sunday. Well, not really in my husband’s mind. But in my “purging for the next 40 days” mind whenever I find an unfinished project I need to kick his butt in gear because planting season is coming up quick. And our Winter inside projects are almost drawing to a close in our home. I mean it was 50 degrees yesterday! Come on Spring in South Dakota!

So, we wrapped up what was our final project in the playroom yesterday, minus one small part. And we may have discussed another project for the room while we worked. And I seriously love these projects because we are using some scrap oak wood in our shed from my Dad and it just looks so fabulous in the sun room turned playroom! 

If you remember I did a magnetic wall and dry erase board. Then before that my husband and I built a sensory table (which I have never done a post on…maybe next Monday?) and before that our benches. All of these things are getting tons and tons of use. It seems that we don’t play with too many toys except our babies, animals, and tractors. We mainly spend our time at the sensory table playing, coloring at it, coloring on the board, or dancing in the kitchen (one of her FAVORITE things to do!)

Anyway, back to this project. This project that sounded like a fabulous idea nearly a year ago (yes, I did say a year ago). And when I found the box with all the stuff in it on Saturday I realized that we need to just get it done. So, I casually started asking Jason about it. Slowly, to get his opinion on a few things, then before we knew it we were diving right in. I am pretty sure he knows what I am doing, but hey it works!

Anyway, yesterday on my Facebook page I posted this picture as kind of a teaser.

Well, here is the finished product. Minus a ‘Q’. I have no idea how in the world I forgot to buy the ‘Q’ but I did? Who knows what I was thinking at the time. Oh wait, I know. I was thinking “What was I thinking bringing my 14 month old in Hobby Lobby on a Saturday by myself to buy 26 letters?!?!”

That’s our sensory table at the bottom. Minus the sensory tub- time for a new theme!

I will have to say that the project took about two hours. It was pretty intensive, but I found the trick that made it so much easier that I will share next week. It was amazingly easy and saved at least half the time I would bet. 

We were both pretty happy with the final look and Ellie has already started pointing saying “G” “G”. Right now everything is “G” unless you tell her differently!

This project was again Pinterest inspired. However, I haven’t quite found one like it so please Pin! I had seen a few alphabet walls and I really, really loved it. I wanted to do it in our nursery. But, it didn’t fit with the baby calf theme I had going. So, I said maybe the playroom. But wait, our playroom is filled with windows! Crud. So, this was my solution…and I love it!