What I've Been Doing Lately

Lately I've been feeling pretty crafty. And I've been super-inspired by pinterest .

First I worked on a project for my gallery wall. Inspired by this little beauty:

I created this:

All it took was one trip to Goodwill, one trip to Michael's and a final trip to Jo-Ann Fabric. I spray painted the frame and the letter was already white. I used spray adhesive to attach the fabric to a piece of cardboard then super glued the letter to the fabric and set a Yankee Candle on the letter for a few days so it would be good and stuck. Admittedly, I'm not the best planner when it comes to projects, hence the trip to Jo-Ann's and the slightly-off-center Y, but I like the way this one turned out.

The second project was inspired by this, another Pinterest find.

I started with this drab, pretty plain coffee table that we've used for the past two years but don't really need anymore since we got a super-sweet ottoman/coffee table combo. Conveniently, the legs screwed right off so I was left with a giant easy-to-work with slab. First I laid my fabric on the floor with the underside facing up. Then I laid batting on top of it. I was originally going to use foam padding too, but as I said before, I'm a bad project planner and I didn't have enough foam. So I just used batting and fabric. We likely won't have many people sitting on it so plush-ness isn't a huge concern. Plus, that helped this project come in at just under $20!

Next I laid the table on the batting, bottom side up.

Next I pulled the fabric and batting tight around the side and secured it with a staple gun. Fun fact though, "universal staples" aren't universal. Universal staples do not fit the staple gun that I purchased, despite the fact that they were 6mm and the gun is supposed to take 6mm staples. But the kind Lowes employee in the door department had me covered.

Then all I had to do was screw the legs back in and flip her over. I really like how it turned out. I still need to paint the legs brown since it was raining today, but I'm doing that this weekend.

Before my little makeover this table was sitting across from the front door and was where I threw my purse and mail when I came in the door. It will still do that, it will just look snazzier doing it now.

Flavor of the Week

I'm absolutely obsessed with gallery walls these days.

Seriously people, how awesome are these?

There are some out there that are made up of lots of frames of the same color, but that's really just not my style. I love how these include signs and graphics and not just photos. There are still some boxes to be unpacked, an office to organize and a guest bed to put together (stop judging me), but this is one project that I'm looking forward to tackling someday soon.

Photos borrowed from: http://www.andreasteed.com/node/1174, http://www.houseoftorquoise.com/, http://iammommahearmeroar.blogspot.com/2011/08/gallery-wall.html

Flavor of the week

Isn't she beautiful?
Please ignore the papers scattered everywhere. There's no time for being orderly in this cubicle.

My Weekend

How was my weekend, you ask?

Paul bought this:

He called it an investment in the future.

That's how my weekend was.

Flavor of the Week

Y'all, I have a new music obsession. And it kind of makes me look like I'm in middle school and like I wear black and pink checkerboard print accessories like I did in high school when I misguidedly thought they made me look cool. We're talking beanie, belt AND non-functioning sweat band here. Anyway, I digress. The band is called Hot Chelle Rae.

Seriously? Didn't I tell you it would make me look like I'm in middle school? They're from Nashville and all their dads write country music. And that one on the left with the red hair? His brother is Cord Overstreet who plays Sam on Glee. Oops, I digressed again. Their current single is "Tonight Tonight" which is currently all over the radio and their sophomore LP is out this fall. All their music is exactly what I need to get me through long days in a grey cubicle.

Feel free to make fun of me. I'm used to it. I used to be really into Good Charlotte, too.

In an aside, in an effort to blog more, I think I'll make this Flavor of the Week thing a regular post and feature one of my current favorite things every week. Stay tuned.