Decorating Your Bedroom With a Western Theme

You do not specifically have to live in the Wild West or be a real cowboy to decorate your bedroom with a western theme. There are many people who have western style homes and enjoy this atmosphere everyday in their rooms. This type of theme is a great décor for any room and gives it sense of the old west culture.

Creating a bedroom with a Western style can actually have an inviting and masculine feel to it. Mixing and matching different items associated with the West like wooden carvings or cowboy hats can truly make your room your personal space. To create a cowboy or western style for your room, here are a few ideas you can use.

• The color of the wall of your room will be very important. Warm and vibrant colors are usually used to depict a western mood to it. A western look often consists of browns, blacks, tans and other dark colors. To highlight the color contrast, select white ornaments for a splash of brightness. One good idea is to use white cow print fabric to make the bed set and curtains. A white carpet with dyed with black odd shaped spots will also create a dramatic effect for your room.

• Decorating the wall with western wall art is an artistic way of incorporating the western theme. Sometimes you can find these inexpensive wall art in garage sales and flea markets. Take the time to visit these places because you’ll never know you might just find the perfect piece of art to hang in your room.

• Hanging up a rope lasso or making small ones glued to your lampshade can also show a western theme to it. You can also cut pictures of horses, cattle, or Indians and use this as a border around the top of your room.

• Decide on having your floor generally made out of hardwood. Also choose area rugs which are flat woven styles or maybe even fake fur skins.

• To create a cowboy look and feel, decorate your room with saddles and leather straps. These can be draped over your table chair. Use your imagination and come up with ingenious ways on how to make western accessories using horse shoe, Indian outfits and cowboy hats.

• Using items made of iron such as iron lamp bases and cabinet knobs will fit well in a Western room.

• You can decide to design your room in a number of ways. You can go with the country theme or even the old west route. It really depends on your preference. Include things such as cowboy boots and guitars to enhance the western culture in your room.

• Nowadays, there are available door knobs in the market with designs that reminds us of the Wild West. Choose a design you like and replace your old door knob with this western-inspired knob.

• Alternative wall hangings can include horse whips, chaps and stirrups. Wooden items can be found in craft stores. There are numerous shapes and sizes to choose from. Paint these shapes and hang them on the wall.

• Window treatments should be in basic colors and not too drastic. Look for wooden shutters or simple curtain panels.

• Old trunks and stressed wood furniture can be placed inside your room and will definitely keep the western look going.

Incorporate all these ideas from painting your room with dark colors up to hanging up the western wall art to achieve the Western look you want to accomplish. After you have all the furniture and decorations in place, you will have produced a warm, cozy bedroom where you can enjoy and relax. It will be like living in the Wild West but still in the comfort of your bedroom.

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I am a knitter, and I feel it is definitely worth upgrading yarn, especially for those special projects. Some yarns I have used and liked are Blue Sky Alpacas, Debbie Bliss, Cascade yarns, and GGH. There is also knitpicks.com that sells yarn online for pretty good prices since you don’t have any stores near you. Baby alpaca is soft and fuzzy, I like the knit picks shine for a non-fuzzy but super soft cotton.
You can also buy yarn from other members via ravelry.com, a knit/crochet community. People post pictures of projects they’ve done, which can give you an idea on different yarns. There is also a yarn forum for people to ask questions or talk about different yarns, in case you had a question about a specific yarn.

Good luck!

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here are some ideas i’ve come up with – most are pretty generic – you can vary & build on them as required. i’ve also tried to keep in mind the varied learning experiences & interests of the said ages.

- firstly, kids love collecting stuff, picking things up, etc. So if/when you take them out, collect flowers, fall leaves, twigs, pebbles, pinecones, acorns, shells, – whatever they fancy. then use this collection to make crafts.
- dry the flowers & leaves between newspaper sheets [for a few days], weighted down under a mattress or something.
they can then glue these to paper, cards, candles, book covers, etc.
- pierce cloves in apple or orange to make pommanders which, when dry, can be placed in cupboards.
- make finger, palm, foot prints on large sheets of paper. convert these into animals, etc. by adding a few details with crayons. or cut them out & use them as petals for a flower or some other pattern, such as peacock from hand print…
- leaf-printing — select a few nicely shaped leaves from your collection. coat them with some thick water color & use as stamp-prints.
if you use acrylic paint, then you can do this on fabric & use the fabric for the little baby’s linen.
- similarly, slice different types of vegetables [okra, cucumber, onion - horizontal or vertical, celery, capsicum, ....], dip the cut surface in paint & use to print. again, if you want to do it on fabric, use fabric colors.
- modelling with play-doh, clay, etc.
- make letters from the clay & write their names with them. adhere them to a piece of wood or plastic – they will have made their name-plates to hang on their door.
- look for some empty plastic bottles – diff shapes & sizes. you can also keep the moulds that come in biscuit packets, etc. make little boats, ships, rafts out of these by sticking a wooden skewer mast with paper/fabric sails. sail them in water tubs.
- convert pingpong balls into animals, or other tree decorations by adorning with sequins, etc.
- make pompoms from wool or other yarn. [you can either buy a pom pom maker or just cut a sturdy cardboard in circle with another smaller circle cut out within]. use these balls to make tree decorations, snowmen, bunnies, etc.
- cut paper strips [tapering towards one end] & roll into beads. you can use glossy magazine paper, crepe paper, kite paper, origami paper, etc. Roll over a skewer stick to get the hollow bead. Use these to make fake jewelry or to string along for hanging tree ornaments, etc.
- make paper buntings – fold paper & cut into triangles on one side, or cut rectangular strips & link each strip like a chain. again, you can use light-weight paper..
- spray painting – use brush or comb
- sponge painting
- string painting – dip yarn/strings in different water color solutions. place haphazardly on card paper, with one end sticking out. place another card over it. hold them tightly. then, just pull the strings out. when you lift the card, you’ll have Two greeting cards with random patterns!
- make tree ornaments or little bugs, beetles, etc. with walnut shells.
- from some netting, cut out squares or rounds. place pot-pourri flowers & herbs & sprinkle some essence. cluster, tie satin ribbon & use for cupboards, etc.
- make origami arts. or draw & color some favorite things on thick paper & cut out. glue beads, bells, sequins, shells. string these on a mobile for the crib.
- help make cookies – let them cut the dough in various shapes. after baking, let them decorate with frosting, etc. as per their fancy.

many of the above crafts can be used to decorate the baby’s room, to make mobiles for the crib, to decorate their own room, to gift for Xmas, …
for a lot of the crafts, just rummage through the kids’ toys & see how differently you can use them…
basically, just have fun )) !!!
you can easily mix & match, combine various of the above ideas to create many many more & wonderful things.
hope these inspire you & your cousins.
all the very best & have fun

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