Custom Mobile: For Baby Charlotte

My latest mobile was made for my husband's cousin Emily, who was expecting her second baby, and first baby girl!! Babies are delightful in any gender, but it's fun to have a new girl in the family!!  Emily came up with a really beautiful nursery design and in talking about her vision for the new baby's room. She gave me some of the fabrics used in the room, we talked a bit about a nature theme, and the mobile frame that was used in her son's nursery.   

It's fun to have design freedom, and I spent a lot of time thinking about what would be fun to create for new baby Charlotte.  I came up with what I've been calling a Simple and Sweet design.  Each figure is a bit more simple than the last mobiles I've been designing recently, but I really don't believe that things always need to be complicated to make a bold and beautiful statement.  The colors in the mobile compliment the colors in baby's room, as well as the fabrics I was given to refashion the mobile top.  If anything, I think this mobile also speaks to my love of the spring time as much as it does my needing the winter to be over already. 

Here are the figures I came up with. 

I call it an abstract butterfly, because I didn't do a traditional looking back on the wings of the butterfly. 

I thought this was a fun twist. 

Here are the figures altogether. I think that the mix of flowers, butterfly, and cute cuddly animals all came together nicely. 

Below you can see the finished mobile. The mobile originally had a brown and blue theme and brown and blue fabric on the top part. I took it apart and refashioned it using fabric found in baby Charlotte's nursery. It took a bit of fiddling, because I wasn't happy with how it came out the first time (somehow I measured the flaps wrong and they were longer than I wanted), but I think the finished product is fun and incorporates both the fabrics, and the room colors nicely. 

                  

I made several more gifts for Charlotte including these polka dot felt booties. I saw this fabric at the store and snatched it up IMMEDIATELY. It's so cute, and bright, and fun!! 

We're looking forward to meeting baby Charlotte this weekend!! 

xoxo

To inquire about custom mobiles send me a message at my Etsy shop Lavender Paper Hearts. 

The (Mis)Adventures of Phoebe & Paige

The latest custom mobile I finished up is called: The (Mis)Adventures of Phoebe & Paige. This client wanted a mobile that captured the fun and silly personalities of her dogs Phoebe and Paige for her son's nursery and she presented me with some great ideas and information to start off with. Both of these lovely lady dogs seem to have very strong and yet lighthearted personalities. One of the greatests parts of working with this client was to read how playfully and lovingly she described her dogs personalities. It might sound silly, but it's these kinds of details that let me get a sense of perspective on the dogs themselves, but I also learn about the personalities of the client, their owner. 

First we have Paige, a dainty little Min Pin. My client described Paige as "shy and girly. She sits with her front paws crossed like a lady." Paige also sounds like she can get excitable as she spins around in circles a lot, but she also gets a bit nervous and skittish at times. So, I sort of envisioned her as an excitable yet proper Southern Belle who maybe gets the vapors from time to time. 

Here is a baby photo of Phoebe the Boston Terrier. Phoebe was described as, "is basically exactly like Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toons." She adores her owners and anyone who comes to visit. She also loves to take time to smell the roses (except she's too enthusiastic and she ends up sticking her face in the flowers and then sneezing her face off.) 

Just look at these ladies. How cute are they?!!

Here is Lady Paige as the uber-Southern Belle, complete with pearl necklace and lace gloves. 

Here, Paige is showing off her sort of spastic and constant movement in rollerskates. Paige is also partially blind so her sort of clumsy sort of excitable manner is only heightened because of this so I added a blind fold to play up the loving inside joke for her owners.

  

This piece features both ladies in a hot air balloon - but with all balloons. It's a play on a piece of art called Mr. Penguin Balloons Print by Showler & Showler that my client said served as an inspiration for decorating his room.  

Here Phoebe is taking time to smell the roses (and also sneeze because she does it 100%).  I made really small flowers and added some white cotton fabric to her other paw to give her a hanky. 

These flower details are in the early stages of drying. My long tweezers and sharp scissors definitely came in handy for these.  

Phoebe is apparently quite the adventurer. She apparently is so adventurous in fact that she's permanently injured her leg from being so carefree and jumping off of things more often than she should. 

As always, I like to add a few subtle extras to add layers and depth to the mobile.

The finished product is one I'm really proud of, and one I hope their baby boy loves looking at! This client was also a dream to work with. She had some great ideas to get me started in the right direction and she gave me so much fun backstory that I felt like I really got to know not only her, but her personality, and that helps me translate what she's looking for in the perfect mobile for her baby boy. 

xoxoxo

If you have an idea for a custom mobile, I'd love to hear it!! You can contact me through my Etsy shop Lavender Paper Hearts. 

Hair Piece Giveaway Over at Bridesmaids & Weddings

Attention Lavender Paper Hearts fans, my friends over at Bridesmaids & Weddings are giving away one of my hair pieces!

Head over to Bridesmaids and Weddings to enter to win your choice of one of the pieces below:

Pink Magnolia Hair Flower with French Veiling Bow

Ivory Hair Flower with French Veiling Bow

Don't forget, click HERE to head over to Bridesmaids & Weddings to enter!!

Quirky Bobbles

I was looking for some cute buttons to jazz up my black winter coat a year ago and in my endless searching on Ebay and Etsy I came across a random large lot of buttons.  Of course I ended up getting way more buttons than I needed in order to get the few buttons I wanted, but it worked out because the buttons in the collection are really cute.  I started using some of them as quirky little centers for some of my hair pieces and I think they look pretty darn cute, if I do say so myself. 

Soft Blush Flower Fascinator with heart button center

Don't like the button I've put in there? Well the centers can always be mixed up.  Check out some of the other precious buttons available!