Project Update 1

Well the week with only one child is coming to a close, and we are not quite done with our project. {Anyone surprised?} We are going to take the next few days just to relax and enjoy each other since it has been a super-busy few weeks. First, Ben went to Africa. Then, we had the bad week where he was really sick. This week has been a combo of him trying to catch up on work and help his crazy wife do the bedroom make-over she insisted would be easy and fast. 🙂

We did get one part of the project completely done and I wanted to share it today just to give you a teaser of the whole shebang.

Here is a close up of the flowers: {Pardon the bad pictures, I don’t have a fancy-schmancy camera! Although I would loooooove one.}

I said those flowers would be back! I originally bought them for our living room, but when we painted in there, I decided to not put them back up. When I painted the one wall in our bedroom green, I put them there. {I stored them on wax paper in the meantime.} I knew taking them down again would surely take away all of their “stickiness” but I really liked the pattern.

So…..

I drew a rectangle onto the wall with a level. Our friend Cameron taped off the rectangle {perfectly, I might add.}

Then, I put the decals onto the wall into a pattern I liked and traced them.
It really didn’t take all that long. I did get interrupted often with this:

But that was perfectly okay.

Here is a close up of the tracing:

I then painted in the flowers. Here it is partially done:

And voila! We had wall art, that will go above our bed. Here is Ben starting the “Great Reveal.”

And here it is completed. I am very happy with how it turned out. Not perfect, but very fun. And the best part- it cost hardly anything, so when I get tired of it, I can just paint over the white part and do whatever I want! {I am sure Ben is not too fond of this idea, as it requires moving the bed! ha} If I’d spent $200 on a painting, I’d be stuck with it for a loooong time.

And a closeup:

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