Subway Art Projects

Sorry for the delay in posting a new blog. Before our son came along, I had decided that I would take the whole month of September off from blogging to take care of him and get some bonding time in. Now that we are getting better (and by we, I mean, him) about eating and sleeping without being too terribly fussy, I get the chance to blog again. Please note that I may not have as many blogs and there may be plenty of blogs that do not have pictures attached. Be forgiving with me until we get the hang of all this down, please. J

So I have wanted to decorate a house for a couple of years now. And since we live in a building with all concrete walls, decorating here in Bahrain is not really an option.

So I did the next best thing for the past couple of years. That’s right, I found projects I wanted to do and pinned them to my boards on Pinterest.

We recently found out that we will be moving sometime in the future. If you are affiliated with the military, this may be familiar to you. We do not know exactly when or where we are going, but we do know that we will be leaving this island sometime (and we know it will be sometime within the next 6 months or so)!

Yesterday during my son’s naptime, I decided that it was time for me to get some projects started, done, and blogged about and these two projects were the easiest projects that I could find and could achieve during naptime.

The original link to the bathroom art below is: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/485583_3226356250872_1025501542_3137581_804803733_n.jpg

And the original link to the subway art tutorial below is: http://thewinthropchronicles.blogspot.com/2012/03/baby-stats-subway-art.html

Subway Art Projects:

Instructions:

I don’t really know how to explain these projects as far as instructions go because they really are super easy projects.

The easiest way to complete these projects is to use Microsoft PowerPoint. It is super easy to move text boxes around and rotate them in PowerPoint and these projects really only took me about 20 minutes total and that was including a 5 minute fussing break!

I will break down the fonts that I used in case you are wanting your subway art to look exactly like mine, though. Below you will see a list of the fonts with the text that it was used for in parenthesis.
*Stencil (9.8.12)
*Georgia (Saturday)
*Arial Black (Benjamin Thomas)
*Courier New (20 inches long)
*Papyrus (7)
*Elephants in Cherry Trees (pounds, ounces)
*Harlow Solid Italic (9)
*Aharoni (11:30 am)

For the bathroom art, I used Calibri, which is the standard text for PowerPoint.

1. So to begin the project, I typed all of the different rows of text into their own text boxes. This makes it easy to move the rows around, rotate the rows as needed, and figure out what size the text needs to be.

2. Once you have typed all your text in, the real fun begins. Stretch the text boxes out so you have plenty of room in it and begin to experiment with the size of the text. I had text ranging from 32 points to 260 points so it does take a little experimenting. If you are going to have text running up the side of your project, I suggest doing that text first so that you can make all the other text get as close or as far away from it as you want.

3. Finish all of your text boxes and change the text color to whatever color you would like. I went with different shades of blue, black, and grey for the subway art because it will match the rug that I have already made for our son’s room. I went for white for the bathroom art because I really liked the way it looked in the original picture.

You will notice that these projects are not completely done. I will complete them once we are at our next duty station so that I can put them up on the wall as soon as they are done. The bathroom art will be put in frames and I am still undecided if I will just frame the subway art for our son’s room or if I will follow the steps on the original blog to place it on wood. Once we get in to our new house, though, I will make sure to post a new blog with an update of what I did.

Here is the bathroom art: