Power wheels make over

Did you ever have a power wheels toy when you were kid? Mine was blue. Well my mom picked up a used Barbie jeep for my daughter about 1.5 years ago and she is now just getting old enough to play with it... But now it's all nasty, dirty, covered with spiders and leafs.... Ew.

What is a crafty mom to do? :/

I want my daughter to have a new jeep to roll around in and take places...

Do I buy her a new jeep?

No... Who has 250+ dollars to spend on something she will grow out of in a few years...

Not me.

So I drag the jeep out. Pull all the leaves off it.. Give it a good car wash in the drive way..

I battled at least 50 spiders of all shapes, sizes, and colors... My screw driver was a spider slaying victorious weapon.

After the blood bath was over I took the jeep apart and laid it out cleaned the pieces, stripped the old stickers off.

NOTE: http://mendingshed.com/ is an amazing little online site where you can buy replacement stickers for every power wheels model at a reasonable price! 12$ for the Barbie jeep stickers.

I decided to paint it pink and black.

My daughters favorite color is pink and since it was already pink a few coats of paint will do it good and make it shine again.

So I painted all the accessories black and left them out over night to dry.

The next day I put the final coats of paint on... And let it dry for a few hours..

Put the pieces back on and put it in the shed to dry until the weekend... It's raining here now so paint and rain don't make the same effect that I want.

I gave it a good clear coat and let it dry another day or so. And checked for imperfections, and gave it another coat.

Than put the stickers on!!

And made a power wheels brand new and custom for about 35$ for the cost of paint and new stickers.... That's a 215+$ SAVING!!

Plus it's now custom and not a bunch of colors thrown together faded and dirty.