Pinterest is my friend

I've recently finished a Pinterest inspired art wall in the hallway. Anyone who is on Pinterest knows that this is a huge accomplishment because its far easier to pin things than to actually do them in your house!

Anyway, we have lots of art work coming home from preschool and I'm one of those "clean fridge" people so I had to figure something out to do with it. Also, art is expensive so why not have your kids showcase their talents. Maybe you'll inspire them to create and use their minds too!!

This was my solution. I used the laser level to hang some twine in between two screws. Then I used it again to create level lines to draw my words on. Here's a picture of that in progress.

Once I got the words penciled out the way I wanted them, I drew over them with a fat, black sharpie. After the black marking dried, I used my handy dandy magic eraser to get rid of any remaining pencil lines.

This wall has created a place where the kids can take daddy when he comes home from work to show off what they did each day. Kids have wonderful talent with art in the toddler years and I picture school spelling tests and future art projects here for years to come!

 

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A post to make Dad happy!

My Dad will be the first person to attest to the disaster that we call our garage. I was always proud of the fact that I could get the car in there but sometimes wondered how I would open the car door once inside. We moved in a year and a half ago and we've been fighting the mess in there ever since. With all of these projects going, I finally had enough!

Chaos in the truest form, right? Sorry Dad, keep reading, I fixed it.

Yes, a mound of vinyl cluttering up the work bench.

 

So, the before pics show a pitiful mess. I hope Dad isn't hyperventilating!

After only four days of blood, sweat and Halloween I did this!

 

 

Woohoo!! I'm awesome! All of my little orange tags on the cabinets are labels as to what's in there!!! Yay! I'm so excited about this! I do have a large pile of trash to go to the dump and a huge garage sale pile which I plan to sell partly on Facebook and the rest next spring. We actually may be able to get two cars in here after that. Go me!

 

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