Sew doilies together around a wire frame for a doily chandelier.
You can create the girliest room imaginable by running out and purchasing all your decor and accessories, but having your little girl use her mind, heart and hands to create something truly beautiful or useful may be more fulfilling for you both. Filling her little haven with crafts that are all her own gives her an even more comfortable place to study, play and sleep, not to mention that it saves money and is eco-friendly if you use repurposed materials.
Crocheted Crafts
If your little girl knows knit or crochet, pieces for the bedroom make excellent craft projects. If she doesn't, then they're great teaching projects. Blankets, throws and shams can be made with one or two types of basic stitches. You can also crochet a throw pillow cover or sachets for dresser drawers. For granny chic accents, look in the bedroom for opportunities to add knitted or crocheted elements. Cover the dresser knobs with crocheted covers, for example.
Fabric Crafts
Scrap fabric is a starting place for multitudes of creative projects. If you or your daughter are nervous about using a sewing machine, many projects can be completed using fabric tape instead of stitches. Cover a headboard in your favorite fabric, or dress up a bulletin board with a patchwork of fabric scraps adhered smoothly to the cork. Cover a small accent table or nightstand with a few different fabrics that embolden your color scheme.
Upcycling Crafts
Some of the most elegant or frilly bedroom decor pieces come from modest beginnings. Look around your home, on Craigslist or at garage sales and thrift shops for items you can reuse to create something fabulous. Collect old doilies and suspend them from a round wire at various heights for a doily chandelier. Adhere doilies to the pillows or bedspread with fabric tape, or individually frame delicate lace doilies and display them on the wall. Repaint some old picture frames and hang them on the wall with or without pictures in them. Save old postcards and greeting cards with artsy pics on them. Hang a string on your wall using tacks, then clothespin the cards to them for a playful photo display that you can change regularly.
Paper Crafts
Add some frills and flowers to your girly bedroom with a few folds. Hang origami cranes or butterflies from the ceiling. Keep the origami in one area, or cover the entire ceiling. Glue hand-folded tissue paper blossoms to the tips of a bare branch. Place it in an old mason jar or decoupaged vase. Cut rectangles or different shapes from tissue paper and hang them on a string above your bed.
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