A Canopy for Kate

We moved Kate into a big girl bed a few weeks before we found out we were expecting baby #2.  It has been my intention since then to put up a canopy over her bed with twinkle lights.  I looked up some ideas on how to assemble and attach said canopy and attempted to do so in the beginning of this year.

For my first attempt, I used combat hooks to attach the twinkle lights and I was going to attach safety pins to the canopy and just attach them to the combat hooks as well to create an easy-peesy canopy.

A princess needs a canopy for sure!

Paper flowers have been removed.

And Kate walks the organza runway like she
owns it.  #shedoes

(Side note: how young does Kate look!?)

I put the twinkle lights up and the canopy with this method and in less than 24 hours, it was already falling apart.  The combat hooks were not staying on the ceiling despite me following all the directions properly.  #ialwaysfollowthedirections

I don't have a before photo of the twinkle lights, but I basically took the organza canopy down and jerry-rigged the twinkle lights to the only hooks that actually stayed until I could come up with a more permanent solution.

For months, Kate had twinkle lights dangling from her ceiling over her bed.  We love twinkle lights in this house, so while they didn't necessarily look pretty, they gave off the perfect glow for our night time reading.  And Kate has always loved using the little remote to turn the twinkle lights off when we are done with books!

You can kind of see them dangling in the background here.
They came to a point above her bed, like a triangle, but there
was no finished canopy.

Since we are still in the process of getting Little Sister's room ready, I thought it would be good to do something in Kate's room too.  I don't want her resenting little sis before she's out of the womb and we've been doing A LOT in that room recently!

I decided it was time to address the canopy.  We took a family trip to Home Depot and came up with a great solution.  We used a wall plant hanger, attached a scrap piece of wood to the top of it, spray painted it white, and screwed it in the wall.  (A huge thanks to Daddy for all his handy work!)

Before.

Daddy helps us attach our contraption.

Said contraption...

I hung the organza canopy while Kate and Daddy read books.

And then I draped the twinkle lights on.

And now we have a perfected canopy above our princess's bed!

I am so happy with how this turned out!  We still have some work to do.  I've been trying to come up with something to decorate our canopy contraption with.  Think along the lines of glitter, or hanging stars, or hanging glitter stars!  But I haven't come up with that yes, that's it idea yet.  #creativemindproblems

I know it'll come to me but I'm so happy to have a nice canopy above Kate's bed.  It really looks a million times better than the inconsistent draping of twinkle lights that we had before.  That was kind of ghetto...and I certainly don't want Kate feeling like we looted her room and took all of her stuff and put it in Little Sister's room.

Yeah, that would not be a great start to the sister bonding thing.