Today I finished most of the decorating in our front room. It's so nice to finally have things up on the wall. (The family picture is really old, but our newer, still two years outdated one was oriented the wrong direction. We are getting a new one soon anyway.)
I somewhat had this same grouping in our other house, but it hadn't been up for very long. And there is one more picture on there now. Sorry to disappoint anyone hoping to see a name on the baby's magnetic photo board. Nate and I both have one to put on there, but for the time being, they don't quite match. Kind of a problem. They almost do, but not close enough to call it good.
I got the idea for this sign from my sister Melanie. I think she got the idea from esty, which is a great place to go to steal great ideas. Anyway, you use everyday object to spell words. The guy at the one hour photo made my day by asking if they were professional photos. It made me feel good that he thought they were good enough to ask that question (for their copyright reasons, I'm sure). I have a non-DSLR camera that I fight with all the time and don't really know how to use. And to give credit, I didn't photograph the "E." Melanie did, but let me use her file. If you can't tell, the "W" is my church shoes, the first "B" is a pearl necklace I have, and the second "B" is the top of my gate (turned sideways). The "E" is the swirly metal end of something Melanie has, maybe an easel. I am going to put pictures in the two other mat openings on each side. I'm thinking I will put a picture of Nate and I on the left and a picture of all the kids on the right.
This is a small section of wall by our sliding doors that go to the backyard. The table is there on the right. I got the unfinished shelves at Michaels and Natalie and Kelton helped me paint them black.
Closer up view. I actually made everything on this wall, at least in part. Including the candles.
Despite how this picture looks, these little crazies didn't really survive the day being neglected by their mother. Fighting/crying levels were much higher than usual today. But now I'm done, so we can play more tomorrow.
2 comments:
Beautiful! I love the letters!
Everything looks great! I love the magnetic photo boards--don't know where I would put them, but they're really cute & such a fun idea!
Good luck getting your names to match. Chad once told me (after some friends gave their baby an interesting name--it wasn't terrible, just different) that we had to decide on the name before going to the hospital because after watching me go through labor, he'd let me name the baby anything, even if he didn't like it.
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