K I'm on a roll with the blogging. Hope I can keep it up this time! It has mainly been catch-up... there's been a lot going on! With the arrival of my new little niece Averie I wanted to do something really special for her. And this is what I saw on my new fav site,
knockoffdecor.com
Yeah, I'm obsessed. Love it.
This piece that I fell in love with comes from Restoration Hardware and retails for $99 each. The lady who originally knocked it off gave me such motivation and inspiration I just knew I could do it.
OK, crappy phone pic again. Steph's color was purple and man I had fun making these. The paint looks like a flat color in this picture but it totally wasn't. I meant to take some pictures of them on the wall (they flank the bedroom window) when I was in Texas but I was so busy holding and loving all over her I totally forgot! I added the butterfly one because we liked all the board shapes so much and thought they were cute together. Unfortunately I was learning a lot along the way and the lettering on that one smeared a bit. So I don't know if it will make it onto the wall or not but I threw it in the picture anyway. Another difference is I wanted to hang them from a black satin ribbon. Oh and see how there are light grey letters 'inside' the animals? Those actually say Averie Ford backwards :) The borders of the boards have crackle paint and look cool if you're up close. The project took much longer than I had thought it would but primarily that was because of
one, my inexperience with paint and
two, my indecisiveness, and
three, slight but completely controlling perfectionism.
I actually do not consider myself a perfectionalist (anyone out there have an opinion on this?) but for little Averie (not that she even cares lol!) I wanted these to be perfect.
Anyway, they are up now in her bedroom and since this time I have been doing projects that involve paint much more frequently. When I get a good picture of these, I'll put it up!
Check out the Wikipedia definition of perfectionism (I think most people with high standards for themselves live in between being the healthy kind of perfectionist and the unhealthy kind; I imagine you are the healthy kind. I have lots to say about perfectionism if you're ever up for it :))
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you're doing some very cool things these days, way to go!
These are cute! And I haven't crafted with you in a long time, but I remember you being a very detailed person. Not that it's a bad thing. :)
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