Getting crafty, part 4

In which I finally start putting things on walls.  I always get a little antsy when it comes time to apply something permanent to such beautifully painted surfaces, so the process of getting my little 3D art installation above the changing table will be in multiple steps.  I took the first ones this morning before work.

Yesterday, this little girl finally came, and it looks amazing!

She's a little bigger than I anticipated, but all in all I think it will look nice, and still in proportion to the balloons.  Here she is acclimating to the room temperature and flattening out after traveling in a tube, but boy, is she cute!  Special thanks to Lark for letting me photograph her growth chart :-).

The next baby step was to lay out the balloons and the little girl on the floor to get a rough idea of the final look on the wall.  I took measurements of the available wall space above the dresser and changing table to help rein myself in and not be too expansive, and after multiple shufflings, I came up with this:

I ended up changing it from the layout I previously developed when I first made the balloons to keep the smaller balloons up toward the top.  I'm trying to play on perspective here to create the illusion of floating away, and I hope others will see it that way too.

I then grabbed my old friend sticky tac, or "mounting putty", which served me so well in my teenage bedroom's massively expansive wall collage.

If loving an adhesive is wrong, I just can't be right

I then started tacking up the girl on her backing paper and the balloons, and wouldn't you know it, laying it out on the ground was silly because I must have shuffled them around on the wall a bazillion times any way.  Oh well, this is why I love sticky tac, it stuck fabric to wall, unstuck, and restuck with zero marks.  Bliss for the noncommittal types like me!

These two are my favorite possibilities, and the last one is how she is currently sitting at home, waiting for me to make a decision and start hammering some nails.

This one just looked a little more "floaty" to me, maybe?

Hopefully by tonight things will be permanent and I can post final victory pictures!