As soon as we picked elephants to be a theme for Emily's room i saw ....

<----- this really cool lamp on Pinterest and i thought to myself "I can do that!"

I basically did everything this woman did except i wasn't half as picky with the sanding and i didn't carve quite so intricate an elephant. Her's is also a lot bigger judging by the pictures on her blog. At any rate it was a GREAT idea and i LOVE how my lamp turned out..... well i LIKE it at least. 

Wow, did i underestimate what i would be like painting a mural while 8 month's pregnant! Needless to say, i don't think i'll schedule something like this again. After 6 days (i could only work 4 or 5 hours at a time) I finally finished baby Bailee's beautiful mural :). Even though it took a couple more days than expected I LOVE the finished product. This is one lucky girl with a great set of parents and now a super cool room!

<----- Just for fun i thought i'd include a little slide show of the process for the giraffe. It really helped to have such a planned out sketch (to scale i might add) because i used it SO MUCH when doing the actual work on the walls. Also, creating a paper stencil for the outline of the giraffe helped A LOT with getting it just right AND not having to paint over sketchy pencil mistakes a million times.