DIY Drawer Liners

I have been itching to start nesting, so badly. Unfortunately, since we share our apartment with a roommate currently I feel completely unable to since his room is where the baby is going to be if we don't just move to a one bedroom apartment--and if we do move to a one bedroom then anything I would do here would be utterly pointless, anyway... So instead I don't add anything that might make this feel more like our home yet (I mean, it's our home... but not only ours for us to do whatever we want with... which for me is mostly put out a ton of pictures of loved ones and things and shift things around exactly how I think they should be). We have 'til August 1. I think we'll be keeping this apartment, we only have a few more days to debate it and then what's done is done because we have to notify the main office July 1.

Anyway, I've been itching to nest so I finally found an easy and needed diy thing I could do to prep for the baby, so I'm probably way more excited about it than I should be. I have had this old dresser since I can remember, I imagine my mom had it when I was a baby. When I moved in with Patrick we brought the dresser along, after debating if we were going to try to make it in a one bedroom for awhile or not I decided to save us money by getting rid of a bunch of clothes I wasn't really wearing and make the dresser William's dresser. It's only a small 12x21 inches 3 drawer dresser, but starting out it will do. Especially to keep his stuff in our room, which is where he'll be sleeping for at least the first three months. We cleaned it out, vacuumed it and then wiped it down but after putting baby clothes in it I noticed the ones on bottom got left with some big splinters from the plywood base. I decided I needed drawer liners and started to look online, only to find a couple tutorials for how to do it for cheap instead of spending ridiculous amounts on pre-made ones. So I decided on a tutorial that involved mod podge since I already had some at home I'd bought with no specific project in mind and went to World Market (where a second tutorial had mentioned they'd found wrapping paper) and picked out some owl wrapping paper (they had some adorable songbird wrapping paper I really wanted but I decided that was way too feminine--I may go back and get it to do drawer liners in our personal dressers). I actually got two different kinds, one I was afraid was too girly and the other was just plain brown owls, but Patrick voted for the one I was worried about being too feminine so that's what I went with. 

Abel was helping me when I was getting baby clothes organized the other day.

I don't have pics because currently it's drying, but I will in the next day or so. I'm also wanting to re-paint the dresser. Currently it's a plain white, I'll probably just re-paint it white (it has a lot of markings currently, though) but I'm debating other colors, possibly. Depends on if we get him a new dresser later or just give him this dresser for good (even though I'm pretty attached to it and like having it in my room). If nothing else, I may do white and then paint the knobs (they're wooden and I'm not sure how they're attached. Probably screwed in but they're sturdy and no point in changing it) either different colors or just pick one color and paint it white with the different colors. I could also mod podge pictures of animals onto the front, or something else. The possibilities are endless now that I know I didn't totally screw up with the mod podge (I do, however, stink at smoothing out paper once it's on glue--but they'll be covered by baby clothes and they still do their main function, which is keeping splinters off William's clothes).

The drawers are currently drying outside, so I'm just going to share this pre-project photo of my babies hanging around with me while I get prepped to do my project.

They're such helpful furbabies

I will also share this photo of Abel playing in the plastic tarp I got out to do the project on (totally didn't need it, used it anyway).

Abelard is so precocious, inquisitive and precious <3

I will post pics of the finished liners at some point in a few days (and I look forward to getting paint and posting pics of the finished product completely, too). I just want to give them a good chance to dry.

 

I know I'll be re-posting this link to the tutorial I used again when I post the finished product, but for anybody looking for a good tutorial, this one was really easy and from what I can tell so far it's going to turn out great! You can find it here!