So, hiiiiii how are you guys doing???
In case you forgot who I am, my name is Sarah and I am a highly neglectful hobby blogger.
You guys, summer was rough on the inspiration front lines.
Life got super busy and to be honest when it came to food, dinners were whatever was familiar and fast. On top of that I had an amazing vacation and I have to say, I was pretty resistant when it came to getting back to real life.
Maybe it's the start of a new month or maybe the time change but something kicked into gear today and somehow the to-do list got completely crossed off. To celebrate, I figured I would get back to writing....quickly though because The Walking Dead starts soon!!
Even though we have lived in this apartment for three years, I haven't quite committed to decorating. My thought was that we are just renting so why bother when it's just temporary, but I CAN NOT take blank white walls any longer!!
You guys, decorating is hard and because it's in my genes....I have to make everything harder, so I embraced the DIY. I never understood those HGTV shows where a designer comes in and chooses every single little detail of the persons house. Everything in my home has to have a meaning.
So I started with our bedroom.
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| "Love you more" is our favorite little saying and the table on the right was my great grandmothers!! |
Feather Pictures - Target
Picture Frame - Walmart
Love You More Sign - T.J. Maxx
Wall Mount - Home Goods
Lamps - Home Goods
And this here was my little DIY project!
So it all started with a stick...
Kevin found this branch while camping and was using it as a make-shift fishing pole. When he brought it home I stared at it for about a year trying to think of something to use it for. While cleaning out my closet I found some ugly blue frames (a previous project gone wrong) and an idea was born!!
The frames were spray painted with a dark grey, eye hooks were screwed into the tops, and they were hung with hemp cord. It was going fine and dandy until it came to the matter of how I was exactly going to hang it on the wall. After multiple trips down every aisle of every hardware store I finally found hardware that would work.
Curtain holdbacks that I just flipped upwards...who knew!!!
I really wanted our bedroom to be romantic and all about us and after I put new frames up, Kevin could feel what was coming next. It was time for new pictures of course!!
So this is a sidetrack, but....here are some of my favorite shots.
Sorry about that but I just couldn't resist.
So then it was time to tackle the living room...or is it the dining room...or maybe something in between. With apartment this size it's all the same anyways!!
I super proud of this shelf you guys!!
It was a labor of love.
Kevin had the big piece of wood in his shop and again I searched long and hard for wood brackets that I liked and that could be stained.
I used Minwax Classic Grey, three coats on the shelf and two coats on the brackets.
After staining them, the pieces sat in the living room for about a month, why you ask....because putting it on the wall was supposed to be Kevin's job.
Listen I'm not one to usually wait around for help but this project required changing drill bits, lots of measuring, and wall anchors. All of these things scare me!!
Today I just couldn't wait any longer so I watched a YouTube video on how to change a drill bit (thank God for internet), and approached the wall cautiously with my tape measure in hand knowing that I couldn't mess up and put a million large holes all over the wall.
And guess what...I did it!!
In even better news, Kevin felt major guilt for putting the project off for so long that he checked the last thing off his standing honey-do list...and now we have a fixed toilet.
Can I get a Hallelujah!!!
Everything on display is from T.J. Maxx...are you starting to notice a pattern, that store is my Godsend.
So there you go guys.
I was a little hesitant on this being my first post back because I didn't think it would be very interesting but this blog is about my life, and well...this is what I've been up to lately.
I'm not done yet, I still have at least a couple of blank walls to fill and my kitchen is calling my name...so stay tuned for new recipes!
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