Hey guys!!
I am SO excited to be hanging out here today with Natalie!!
I just love her blog and it’s so fun to be able to spend some time here 
I’m Kelsey from Tattered and Inked,
where I blog about furniture redos, free printables & all kinds of DIY decor.
I was so excited to get to share a fun baby DIY idea because it has been baby season lately!
I’ve had all kinds of showers to go to & gifts to get for friends & one of my favorite things to do is to make something that is sweet & personalized.
When my friend found out she was having a girl,
I had a field day making all things girly for her!
One of the things she really wanted was a unique mobile.
But get this…hubby works in the Air Force with C-130s
(those are the HUGE supply planes…and here in Arkansas they’re a big deal)
so she wanted someway to incorporate daddy’s C-130′s into it.
And make it girly.
Definitely a challenge & I was excited to figure out what to do for it.
Can you believe I made a C-130 airplane girly???
Well, I totally did.
Just wait.
It’s crazy awesome!!
Here’s what I started with:
Supplies:
Large Embroidery Hoop
Large Chipboard Letter
Strips of ribbon/fabric
Hot Glue Gun
C-130 Model Airplane (Hobby Lobby)
Spraypaint
Spraypaint
Screw-eyes
Transparent Hanging String
Drill with small drill bit
The first thing you’ll want to do is get to cutting all your strips of fabric and ribbon.
I used pieces of linen, burlap & green & pink ribbons for mine.
Make sure to hold them up to the embroidery hoop to determine the length you want.
For this project, I just used the inside of the embroidery hoop because it was smooth & round.
I painted it white just in case any part of ended up showing through.
Take your fabric & ribbon and start hot gluing them around the embroidery hoop.
All I did was take the end of the fabric, wrap it around to the back & then secure it with a dab of hot glue.
Go all the way around to completely cover the hoop.
You can add layers if you want a fuller look.
First part- done!!
Isn’t it pretty already??
Isn’t it pretty already??
You could definitely just hang it like this and even add a second tier with a smaller hoop under it but remember we’re adding a plane!!!
But first, to hang it from the ceiling, we decided it would be super cute to hang it from her monogram.
So we got an E for "emily"!
I covered it with cute green scrapbook paper.
Make sure your letter is big enough that the hoop you’re using won’t look funny hanging from it.
It’s a tiny bit complex to hang this pretty thing but totally worth it!
The best way we found to hang it was by using screw-eyes on the back of the ‘E’.
There were seven screw-eyes total.
Three on one end of the E
Three on the other
and one in the very middle of the front of the E.
The mobile was securely tied to the four screw-eyes on each corner of the back of the "E" with the hanging string.
We just tied it around the hoop itself and brought it up to tie to the screw-eye.
Just make sure it stays level- that’s the tricky part!
Here’s the embroidery hoop hanging from the "E".
The other two screw-eyes on the back of the "E" are what the whole thing hangs from at the ceiling.
Two pieces of string go from those screw-eyes and tie to a silver ring that then can hang on a hook in the ceiling.
Next comes the girlifying a C-130 part.
So fun!!
We were able to score a model C-130 at Hobby Lobby and let the hubs and little man put it together.
Then it got a nice spray-down with a beautiful baby yellow.
Doesn’t it look cute in yellow?
Did you ever think that a big, tough supply plane could be cute?
Hm.
Now how to hang the guy.
Here’s what we did
We took a teeny tiny drill bit and drilled two holes.
A tiny hole into the tail of the plane.
And a tiny hole right into the middle of the plane.
The middle hole got a screw-eye attached to it.
Then both of them had string strung through them to attach to that middle screw-eye in the front of the "E’.
Hanging the plane from the E was the easiest part
Whew.
After all that wordiness and strings being strung,
are you ready to see the final result??
Here ya go:
Isn’t it stunning?
I love the playfulness of the fabric against the flying plane.
So fun.
And, of course, an aerial view…
Isn’t it a fun way to incorporate a little bit of her daddy into her nursery??
I’m so glad my friend wanted to add the plane in-
I’m so glad my friend wanted to add the plane in-
definitely gave it a lot of personality!!
What do you think?
Did we succeed in girlifying a C-130 into a nursery-worthy mobile?
Thanks again, Natalie, for letting me hang out on your lovely blog for a bit!!
Hope you guys enjoyed my fabric mobile
Kelsey has come up with a great idea.Love the painted airplane.