Design on a Dime...repurposing a calendar

So those of you that know me well and have been to my house know that decorating is not my biggest strenth. You'll know this by the remaining mostly-empty walls that still exist in our home after almost 3 years. Can I blame it on having two babies since we moved in here? Maybe. I love organized, clean, efficient....but I'm not always motivated to decorate. Seems expensive...and I sometimes wonder what the purpose is or if it's functional.

Well this weekend my mom and dad were here to visit (can you say DATE NIGHT!!?? We got to leave the house. By ourselves. For like 2 hours.). My mom helped me with a couple mini projects for Alex' room that I have been wanting to do but just haven't.

I decorated his room with some of the animals from the Suzy's Zoo theme- the giraffe, the bunny, the bear, and the duck. I love those creatures and though not everyone agrees that they're unisex...I think they're adorable. He's just a baby. I'm the one that sees the stuff anyways haha. Here are a couple of pics:
Last year I found a Suzy's Zoo calendar in the Dollar Bins at Target.... so of course I snatched it up. I wasn't even pregnant yet but I love Suzy Zoo. This calendar had been hanging in Alex' room all year and since the pics are so cute I thought I could just string them along the wall to decorate. I picked my six favorite, found some string, and taped them up. Didn't cost me anything. It sure is fun to look at and fills up that huge empty wall in Alex' room. I'm sure you could do this with any calendar or magazine picture you came across. And most people have string or yarn laying around somewhere!

The other thing we added (in place of the calendar) was an old small bulletin board that was collecting dust in our basement. I found a scrap of yellow fabric in my stash of remnants. I also found some Suzy's Zoo border strips that I had in with my teaching stuff. Easy way to display some cute pics of my boys (I just need to print some now!)
'Til next time,
Thrifty Chica