Zero footprint little girls vanity

Before

If you know my daughter you know that she is a girly girl.  At age 3 she fully accessories outfits that she puts together with whatever and however she wants.  She has her own style and as someone with very little style I love it.  I can't shop without her because if she doesn't let me know what I should buy for her I will end up returning everything or spending a ton of money on stuff she won't wear. Not economical! 

Anyway, I knew that I wanted her to have a little girls vanity but all the "toy" vanity I saw were crazy expensive AND had all kind of bells and whistles I knew she didn't need.  I really feel that the simpler the toy the more imagination a child can add to it.  

At first I found this little gem at our transfer station in the plastics area. FREE is always best! It didn't make noise and the small accessory pieces were missing but I put that in the positive column.  So I picked it up and scrubbed it sparkling clean.  She LOVED it but I hated the HUGE foot print for not a lot of function.  YES, even kids toys should have function.  Every time I cleaned her room it was ANOTHER bulky item I would have to lift onto the bed so i could clean the floor. A couple months later I need to find another solution.  My husband wanted me to keep it so I put up with if for a little while longer but I knew that I could do something for cheap that she could grow with.  Something she would enjoy even after the princess phase was long gone. 

I observed that she was only really using the mirror part of it.  She had too many accessories to hold IN the vanity so the 3 little drawers were basically going unused.  At a trip to KMart (the only store in our town and that isn't a 40 min drive away, otherwise I would have gone to target) I found their "dorm style" accessories on deep discount.  School had already started so everything was 75% off.  I picked up a small mirror and 2 floating shelves for less than $5 TOTAL!  I pulled out my cricut (a black friday deal from last year that I've barely used), some vynal self adhesive paper from Stampin' Up that I never put to use and my KMart purchases.  

The Result!

My daughter is currently obsessed with dance so I wanted to use that theme on the mirror.  Now she has a mirror and several shelf spaces for display or whatever she wants.  Having her name on the one shelf has helped her to learn how to spell her name and the lower shelf gives her a place to put her water cup at night.  Her bed is low and I didn't want something as deep as a night stand where she might hit her head on it rolling out of bed to come into our room lat at night.

I am so proud of this project.  It is everything I envisioned.  The best part is I used 3M stickys to adhere everything to the wall so I can move it every couple of years as she grows or the bed is raised.  My next project for her:  a ballet bar with mirror wall.  All I have to do is find the wall space, heh.