Colors of the Wind

Work has been... stressful lately, so my motivation to come home and get on the computer and write more is at an all-time low.  Consequently, I'm resorting to entertaining you with pictorials of my most recent creative outlets.  I promise I'll be back with stories and adventures soon!  I just need another few days to get my head back in the game.

The Ps had a baby girl last August and L asked me to make a stool for her.  Usually I try to make these things match room decor, but there wasn't really much of a theme for this little chica's room (think custom, gender-neutral bedding in greens, blues, and khakis with pops of pink and other colors).  Since the Ps live in Austin, I had to go off of pictures that Mrs. P posted on Facebook to get an idea for color schemes.  One thing I don't trust: my monitor's ability to show colors true to life.  I mean it looks fine on my screen, but who knows!  Those blues could have more yellow to them or something.  So I was left to blaze my own trail and hope it didn't look like a seventh grader made it at the end.  Here's the finished product:

The colors look better in person; the green is way less split pea soup and more minty.  And the pink monogram is easier to see, too.

Side #1.

Side #2.

All in all, not my best work.  It was hard to get inspired by a room I'd never seen.  But apparently the Ps liked it.  I wasn't there to give it in person, but that's the word on the street.

This next one is one of my favorites!  I don't know if I just like making stools for boys or if it's the parents that made this one so fun, but even though I was in the same situation with this stool as I was for Baby P (never met the bambino, never seen the room), I had an idea to use as inspiration.  The goal was fun without being too babyish.  This was the end result:

Baby Jake's theme is clearly safari/jungle.  I had fun learning how to make different types of animal prints.

Side #1.

Side #2.

Maybe it's the color scheme or maybe it's the minimalism of it, but this is one of my favorites I've done to date.  L and I had so much fun meeting Jake and seeing his parents when we were in Austin over Thanksgiving.  Yea for special friends and their babies!!