G is for Getting Crafty

Our bedroom has a whole lotta wall space and I wanted to do something soothing and cheap! I'm sure I saw this idea somewhere. I am also sure if you focus and pay close attention you can follow these super complicated steps. [insert eye roll]
Seriously, you guys know if this project were very complicated, I would have completely lost interest before it was done. Basically here's how this all went down:

 I gathered up the supplies and completed this project while watching college basketball. Texas A&M Aggies over the defending National Champions North Carolina Tarheels! Whoop! Gig Em!!

Holy moly I am easily sidetracked...where were we? Oh yeah....

I gathered up the supplies:

 

blurry,close up pic of fabric choice

 

I bought a 2 pack of stretched canvass, a pre-cut quilter's square in a print I liked and some spray adhesive at Wal-Mart for around $10. You could use a glue gun instead of spray adhesive and that might work better, but I needed the adhesive for another project, so I went with that. Also,scissors and a trash bag to use as a drop cloth and I was ready to go! 

 

 

 

I ironed the fabric - really, I did. You should do better if you choose to do this project for yourself. Then, I spread the trash bag out laid out the fabric - good side down and placed the canvass on top to measure and cut. 

 

 

Using the spray adhesive I first glued the front side to the fabric. Work around edge to edge I used the spray to wrap the fabric around the back of the canvass. Ta-Da!! I told y'all it was complicated.

 

 

In an earlier post, I wrote about the Fall Girl's Weekend. I don't think I told y'all that we had planned to go do one of those paint and drink wine things. Well, we didn't get signed up in time and the class was full. We solved that problem by going to a drive thru Daiquiri place and Hobby Lobby. We drank and painted in PJs in the hotel room.  Seriously, it's this sort of thing that makes these my people!!We picked a word, Heather drew it out, we filled it with a paint pen, we talked about men, we talked about kids, we talked about work, we talked about cheese or tacos or cookie recipes, we ate chocolate éclairs, we laughed, we saved $35 bucks a piece... good stuff...

 

Oh, yeah and I ended up with this really cool BLESSED canvass.

 

 

 

 

The next step of this project took the longest. I held up these 3 canvasses against every wall in my bedroom and in every imaginable configuration. Side by side on the bathroom wall, stacked like a cross over by the dresser, at a weird diagonal by the window. I finally settled on an arch above the bed. I wanted the feather, fabric above the night stands, but now that I see these pictures, I think I want to move it in toward the Blessed canvass. Here's the issue. This is a rental. I want my deposit back. They may stay put. Then again, it may bother me enough that one day I move them. We'll see. Stay tuned!