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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Make room for the King
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Temporary Playroom
AFTER:
I've thought about banging holes in the walls here in search of another secret space but I'm trying to control those urges.
Instead we have named a room upstairs "the playroom".
I have 4 young kids and want that room to be magical for them but I'm still not exactly sure how I am going to do that so I decided to decorate the playroom "temporarily" in a vintage feel.
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I made these fabric covered ikea magnet strips the same way my friend Traci did here.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Creating a picture wall
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But, while our family was visiting us for Thanksgiving we used the "perfect" wall for this...
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So, this was the next "perfect" wall choice...
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This wall is seen right when you walk in the front door and goes down the staircase.
BEFORE I started hanging pictures I spent months looking for things I LOVE to hang around our family picture.
This time I was determined to make this wall meaningful and ALL about our family.
Once I found every piece I laid them all on the floor and moved things around until I loved it then I grabbed a measuring tape and jotted down how close every piece was to the things around it.
Finally, I centered our family picture on the wall...
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I really wanted the picture to {POP} so I framed it in a very simple frame and then added this fancy open frame around it...
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On the left side...
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On the right side I put the picture of the temple (where my hubby and I were married) a little higher because I knew I wanted to add our family motto to the top and I wanted it to look balanced...
I got this little gem for Christmas...
which I used to make the last component of our picture wall...
It's so hard to say good-bye
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