Wishes Floating in the Breeze



When I decided to makeover my bedroom,

the first thing I did was to pull up the carpet.

Believe me, you would have done the same thing!

Don't have too many before photos,

you know me -  when I'm done I say,

 ''Oh shoot! I didn't take pics...again!!"

I had no idea what I wanted to do,

whatever it would be had to cost $0, yes, $0.

Here's the only before photos I could find.

Without gross carpet.....

just plain but CLEAN cement



Then when Ace was giving away quarts of their new paint line,

Clarks and Kensington Interior Paint every Sat.

last year for several months 
( I had gotten enough to already paint my room)
I just started getting white.

Then I had a light bulb idea about painting the floor!

Perennial Sweet Pea Walls 

with a white floor -
sounded good to me.

If you can look close you can see 
the floor is now white.
Excuse the mess, this is where all the magic happens - or it's suppose to.
 My bed combo craft room gets blurred lines sometimes a lot of the time
and my craft table becomes a drop zone :(

After I lived with the white for about a year,

 I started thinking it needed a design of some sort.

I've always had a thing for wings,

 (yes, I know I have a thing for a lot of things!),

Hence Dragonflies, Birds, Fairies,

yes, in that order ;)

I've seen a lot of dandelions lately with their

seeds floating along the breeze. I liked that.

In fact I even made a little sign to go into a ''photo holder'' I made from a green Depression sugar lid.

Then while searching Bing 

I came across an image where

the seeds turned into birds. 

How cool is that?

I printed it out and started to make a decal

with some clear Contact paper I had.

That came to a halt quickly.

The stems of the feather like seeds were so thin,

no way could I stencil it.

Now that I had fallen for this design,

 how the heck was I going to get it on the floor!?

Freehand? heck no,

I can't draw a straight line let alone paint!

It was put on the back burner for a few days

while I dealt with more medical issues with the kids.

It spun around for a bit in my head,

then I thought of my Dad's humongous

 folder of Carbon Paper!

Thanks Dad!

There's proof right there that if you hang

onto something long enough eventually you'll need it.  

I'm not suggesting to keep a 3 inch

stack of Carbon Paper from WWII, but hey!

So I printed out the image and covered it with the clear Contact Paper so I would be able to trace over it as many times as needed without tearing through the paper.

Sorry no in progress photos, yes again!

But here are the finished photos.

The carbon paper was sandwiched between the floor and the image. I then lightly traced the image which transferred to the floor.

I used a variety of mediums to ''color'' the image in.

They do not all have the same coloring.

Different shades purples and blues were used.

I had some Martha Stewart paint pens

 I picked up on clearance

quite a while ago which I used. 

I also used Sharpies and even nail polish to get a variety of purples and blues.

T kept saying the Sharpies would bleed when I put sealer on it. Needless to say, I kept thinking ''they are indelible markers and shouldn't, right?''

You'll also notice in this photo I finally got my old

 Door Knobs turned Drawer Knobs on!

I really had no rhyme or reason when it came to placing the images. But they turned out pretty good. The Dandelions range from all purple, 

to all blue to a mixture of blue and purple.

All the birds are blue, some light, some darker.

After I had the main images done,

I thought the blank spaces around them needed something.

So I free handed (yikes) floating Dandelion Seeds in the same assorted shades of purples and blues. 

When I was done I used the left over Cement Sealer

 that I used on my "Faux Brick Walkway".

And guess what?

The Sharpies and nail polish did NOT bleed as I brushed on the sealer, but the Paint Pins DID!!!

I thought I had just ruined all the time and

effort I had put in on this project.

I dabbed up where it had bled/smeared so you couldn't see it,

then ran and found a spray bottle in which

 I poured in some sealer.

I sprayed the entire floor 3 times letting each coat

dry for an hour like the label said.

I was worried it would leave bubbles or

who knows what but it turned out pretty good!

It's been mopped several times with no issues!

I'm pleased with the way it turned out,

especially since I winged it all the way.

I just may get this room together some time in this decade yet!

And the cost? $0!!