This was a craft project I finished at the buzzer--as in, I hung it the night before baby girl surprised us with her early arrival. I guess she figured since her name was on the door, we were ready.
This is simply a wooden "M" I purchased for a couple bucks at Michaels. It was wood colored so I painted it white so you wouldn't see wood between the pearls, then hot glued a bunch of pearls on it, packing them in as tightly as I could. Michael's sells a mixed container of pearls--cream, gold, and grey--in three sizes. It wasn't what I set out to buy (they didn't have a bulk pack of one color/size), but I ended up really liking the textured surface that resulted, and I think the multiple sizes fit together a lot closer than a single size would have. The hot gluing took a lot longer than I expected, but it was an easy-while-watching-TV activity. At the end I rubbed my hand over it firmly and shook it real good to make sure any loose pearls fell off before my baby was crawling.
I came across the idea from this awesome blog Our Unexpected Journey where she made a holiday version with red berries--click over and check out the awesomeness.
I came across the idea from this awesome blog Our Unexpected Journey where she made a holiday version with red berries--click over and check out the awesomeness.