Lincoln's Room Decor

As previously mentioned, we are working on decorating Lincoln's room in a pirate theme. We decided that this needed to include something on the wall that has his name on it. Since he was born we've had a picture frame on the wall that has his name in it, but the colors match the crib bedding that's going in the baby's room, and so we are going to put the picture frame in there as well. So that was leaving Lincoln's room pretty bare.


We decided to cut the letters of Lincoln's name out of wood, along with some anchors and hang them up in a net on the wall. The letters and anchors weren't too hard to do. We used my mom's scroll saw while we were staying up there, and we also painted them. I did the letters of his name, they are red and navy blue. Aaron is quite a bit more artistic than I am, so he did the anchors.

The next step was to get the net. We couldn't find anywhere that sold fishing net that looked like it could be on a pirate ship. So we moved to plan B, make our own. We bought some hemp twine, and with Aaron as the master mind, figured out how to tie it into a fishing net. He used a piece of cardboard to hold the ropes tight and then measured out the distance between the knots, and then he tied all the knots. There were a lot of knots. When we were all done with the net, we put Lincoln in it, just for fun, and swung him like it was a hammock. Linc thought that was great fun, and whenever we would have the net lying on the ground he would go and lie on it, in hopes that we would swing him again.


After that we had to tie the letters into the net. Aaron did that by drilling holes into them and threading some twine through and tying that on to the net. It looks great. The letters kind of remind me of little fish caught in our net. :) The last step was to wrap the rope around the anchors. Aaron also figured out how to do this and make it look authentic. I'm telling ya, my husband is amazing. He has all the hidden talents, like making rope, that he just whips out when we need them. I love it!

Then of course we got to hang it on Lincoln's wall. It looks awesome. I'm really excited to get the rest of his bedding sewn so that it all comes together and matches.