Hacking Baby Bedding

As a blog post disclaimer to my close friends and family, no I am not pregnant and am not planning to be any time soon!  :o)

Having said that, check out this beautiful crib bedding I found while browsing over at Serena & Lily...

If my darling hubbs and I ever do have another baby and said imaginary baby turns out to be a girl, I would LOVE to have this be her bedding.  Of course, at a cool $969.00 for the three piece set of bumper, skirt and plain white sheet, I definitely wouldn't be purchasing it!

Instead, I'd be compelled to try and make it, by sewing my own bumper and crib skirt out of linen, trimming it with ribbon, and then channeling the genius over at 6th Street Design School and painting the folk art design onto the fabric.

Although instead of using freezer paper to make a stencil as 6th Street did, I would use contact paper and cut the design out of that instead.  Then I would use this amazing product to spray paint the design onto the fabric.  This fabric paint doesn't come in white, though, so I'd have to go with a really light pink, which I think would look just as great, especially if I used the same color pink ribbon to trim the pieces with.  Or, of course, I could just use plain-old-fashioned fabric paint and apply it with a sponge or brush.