Mom's Kitchen

Here are some photos of my mom's kitchen that I did.

Mom's Coffee Kitchen

This was my first experience breaking out of the realm of children's rooms and it has opened a whole new world of possibilities and ideas for my murals.

A Pooh for Caleb

Some of our closest friends bought their first home this past spring. Here is a room that I did for their son...

Pooh

Superheros

After moving to the Detroit area and renting for a year & a half, we were finally able to move into out own house. One of my first projects was to create a new room for my boys. They are much older and not into bugs now days, but were super excited to get a super hero room filled with all of their favorite characters.

room

Nursery

Here are some picts of a nursery I did. The expecting parents were decorating in a jungle theme. They wanted some palm trees to frame and create a canopy effect over the crib. We also added some clouds on the ceiling and a sun on one of the corners. The parents later added a vine border around the room.

Palm Tree, Sun, & Clouds

Christmas Money

So time flies when you are having fun. We've been busy camping this summer, so I have yet to get all of the rooms up...

Here are the picts from a few rooms that I did back in October of '06 to make some extra money for Christmas...

Enjoy!
Here is a playroom:

Construction, Tinker Toys, & Angels

A Toddler Room for Boys:

Cars & Dinosaurs

A Girly Room:

Girly Room

Lastly, a tween boys room:

Extreme Sports

The pictures are a bit grainy. I forgot my digital camera and had to use a disposable. Still, I think the rooms turned out nice with each of the children's own taste & personalities showing through.

A Great Idea

So after completing the boys' buggy room, many friends and family were soliciting my new found "talent" as an artist. (I find it hard to call myself an artist, but I guess there is more to that title than being able to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.)

I got the great idea that if I was going to make a go of trying to earn money from my hobby, I would need to get my work out there. The Children's Palace Daycare, gave me that opportunity. In exchange for the supplies I would need to start my business, I would paint the daycare center. It was a win win situation. The center was able to fill their walls with stimulating and age appropriate murals. In return, I was able to have my work seen by my target market and see if I had a marketable product.

Here, are the pictures of The Children's Palace Daycare Center:

Children's Palace Daycare

The center included an entry way, kitchen, 2 great rooms, bathroom, 1 toddler room, and 1 nap room.

The graphics & rights were purchased online at www.pccrafter.com

How it all started

This whole mural thing started for the boys' 2nd B-Day. I had the "great idea" that for their birthday I would transform their room to a big boy room from the nursery theme. Their little Buggy Room was the result.
Pictures can be viewed here:

Buggy Room

I couldn't have been happier with the results. I chose a bug/outdoor theme, complete with a little tree house for their critters. Their room included just about every bug that a little boy would want to catch and put in a jar.

Entering the room, I attached a long measuring tape to some more press board to create a growth stick for each of the boys. On the back of the board I added a frame hook so that the measuring board could be moved.

There was an 8" X 7" tree with wooden slabs nailed to the trunk for steps up to the tree fort shelf. Under the tree, I painted several little lighting bugs, that when the lights went out at night, gave a little surprise, they glowed!!! I used glow-in-the-dark paint for the "bulb" portion and used glitter on their wings to give then that little zaz.

Above each of their beds, there were little "leaf" letters with bugs munching out their names.

To finish off the room for two very busy boys, I painted a piece of press board with several layers of magnetic paint. Then sprayed it with black chalkboard paint and then with a buggy shrub boarder.

The graphics used & the rights were purchased online at www.pccrafter.com