Twinkle twinkle little yellow tester pot

Self suggested commission...

Our good friend is baking her second baby in her belly oven and I had been discussing her ideas for the nursery with her over a cuppa one afternoon.

Later that day she posted on 'DIY on a budget' Facebook group asking if anyone had decorated a nursery in grey and yellow and for any inspiring photos. Being in the group myself I commented with a few pictures I found on trusty ol' Pinterest, including this little cutie

...and I suggested maybe I could make this mobile out of felt. BUT she said she already has a mobile picked out.

While she was typing that, I was still posting pictures like this

With this photo came this comment :

Hence my getting my craft on, and this post!

I had a shop around for an A4 frame, yellow paint and grey card ... on this occasion it all ended up being from Wilko. I liked the simplicity of the frame with the fact it wasn't varnished so I could paint it, the yellow tester pot was such a happy cute little yellow called bumblebee (in fact Katrina was with me to help pick a perfect yellow)

and apparently grey card in our local town is difficult to come by, so a pack of coloured pearlescent card seemed like the way to go

OK so it's more of a silver than grey, and actually ended up out of the window (and into the stash)

I gave the frame a coating of bumblebee and drew up the design on the silver card - YUK! The frame looked ace but (it's not often you'll hear me say this) the shiny card was too shiny!

While I was scratching my noggin thinking of where I'll have to drive to to get some grey card I was putting the glass back in the frame and realised (light bulb!) there was a perfectly good, perfect size, piece of grey card which had come out of the back of the frame.

For the white I used a Uni chalkboard pen

While my work-in-progress was on the dining table Mr Beth had noticed it's made by Mitsubishi

After a little googling I have found it's not affiliated with the car manufacturers, bit of a downer after thinking we knew something interesting, but fun fact.

 Back to crafting... I added some more yellow than the Pinterest inspiration picture and it's not a exact copy to scale because I sketched it out freehand

I think it turned out pretty not bad, and our yummy mummy friend loves it, so I'm happy!

Plus I gave her the rest of the paint for matching any other nursery DIY projects so she's very happy!