tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82914851905760211972024-03-05T14:10:57.592-08:00House of Cardboard and GlueAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265576676020224705noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8291485190576021197.post-36890745353530972922013-07-09T08:55:00.000-07:002013-07-09T08:55:17.214-07:00A long time coming... (a.k.a This clock is always ready to party!)<div style="text-align: center;">
So I can't remember where the idea came from, but it must have been several years ago because I've been thinking about it for quite some time now.</div>
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When I came across a very standard wall clock (it was going to be thrown away) a few weeks ago I knew I was finally going to check this craft off my mental list. Ok, so maybe it's more of a revamp than a craft but eh...semantics, right?</div>
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In my typical fashion, I managed to forget to take a "before" picture of the clock...I think I just get too excited.</div>
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But it was your typical black and white classic-style, battery-operated wall clock, similar to this one:</div>
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All in all, the project was super simple.</div>
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I took the clock apart carefully.</div>
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Spray painted the dial and frame. (Chrome spray paint gets used on practically every project in this house)</div>
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Added die cut numbers (all 5's). I used these Crayola repositionable vinyl letters...however if you are too impatient to let the paint dry fully before applying, they are not repositionable at all. Hah!</div>
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Once everything was nice and dry I reassembled and set the proper time on the clock.</div>
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And there it is, my party clock!</div>
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I eyeballed all the placing of the 5's so some are a little bit off-kilter...but hey! So am I, right?</div>
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LOVE IT!</div>
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It's always 5 o'clock somewhere!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265576676020224705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8291485190576021197.post-72653025477311086202013-07-02T07:01:00.000-07:002013-07-02T07:01:44.829-07:00Garden of Cardboard and Glue Update (a.k.a Oh Sweet Delicious Summer!)<div style="text-align: center;">
I've had quite a few people ask me how the cardboard in the garden is doing now that we are halfway through the season. I'm happy to say it is holding up really well and I'm confident it will continue to last through the rest of the growing season.</div>
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As you can see, there is some movement from the cardboard... the containers have rounded themselves out. The one on the bottom to the far right has no dirt in it at all and is of course retaining its original shape quite well.</div>
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Despite some peeling and settling, the are still quite sturdy and not going anywhere.</div>
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There were some inherent problems with the original design that will have to be modified next year.</div>
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Problem #1: They have to be watered pretty much twice a day...I'm fairly confident this is mostly due to the sunny location I have them in. I'll be finding a shadier spot for my green lettuce next year and perhaps try a less temperamental plant here...maybe flowers!</div>
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Problem #2: Runoff. The way they were made I end up getting a LOT of runoff off the top when I water them. I had to add additional soil and I lost a few seeds like this little guy here all alone...</div>
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So, all in all, I'd say this was a success...now if only my gardening skills were as awesome as my hanging cardboard planters.....</div>
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The rest of the garden is also doing very well this year!</div>
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Remember my <a href="http://houseofcardboardandglue.blogspot.com/2013/04/warning-this-project-contains-no.html" target="_blank">futon frame trellis</a>? </div>
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My cucumbers are LOVING it! I think I might have to learn to make pickles or something this year....</div>
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I managed to get a type of squash that wasn't vining....oops haha. It's quite healthy and the squash are delicious anyways though!</div>
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Last but not least are my 5-gallon bucket planters.</div>
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My tomatoes are doing very well. The peppers don't seem to be growing....but they aren't dead yet at least so I still have hope!</div>
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And this guy was originally an upside-down planter that fell off the fence and smushed the initial plant so I just decided to use it on the ground and added a banana pepper to it.</div>
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Well, it's pretty nice to report that I haven't killed and abandoned my entire garden this year. I'm super proud of it!</div>
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Ok, so it has been awhile since my last post. I was off on vacation for the better part of May and then dealing with all the beginnings of summertime once I got home.</div>
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But I have been working on something super special!</div>
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Remember this beauty?</div>
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Well that was how it looked at first. I'm proud to say that after several months and so so much glue, I have officially finished my deer head decor project :)</div>
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I've nearly abandoned this thing several times throughout the course of this, but the idea I had for it was just too interesting (in my opinion, anyways) to completely give up hope. So, a few times I stepped away for a week or two, only to come back, make a modification or two, and forge along.</div>
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It was odd, right before my husband drought this thing home randomly, I had been seeing bloggers post about these faux deer heads and I was digging them! For example this one <a href="http://www.knowandtellcrafts.com/2012/08/faux-taxidermy-deer-diy.html" target="_blank">here</a> from knowandtellcrafts.com is very simple and easy to do....but I don't really *do* easy so here's my version....</div>
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Well, I think it's pretty anyways! Besides, I will always have interesting dinner conversations while this bad boy is hanging around. </div>
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So, do you love it or hate it?</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265576676020224705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8291485190576021197.post-58447685541137537982013-05-06T07:28:00.000-07:002013-05-06T07:28:08.652-07:00I've got junk in my trunk.... (a.k.a. A new place to put my feet up)So when I got married, I also married this trunk that my husband will not let go of.<br />
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It's not hideous or anything, I've just never really had a place to put it...in fact, for years and years it has lived underneath a casino table we had (yeah, we never used that either). Well, I finally convinced him to get rid of the table...mainly by constantly stacking my things on it and then reminding him that flat surfaces are dangerous places that my things like to congregate....<br />
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Anywho, after unearthing it, my husband happened to move it in front of the couch and I kinda liked the way it looked there. I've been wanting a storage ottoman for a long time.<br />
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So, of course, for the base of it I decided to go with (what else) cardboard. A few pieces glued together to make a nice, thick, sturdy base.<br />
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We measured out and pre-drilled the holes, making sure the bolts we intended to use weren't too short or long.<br />
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I cut some foam slightly larger than the base and used spray glue to keep them together while I upholstered.<br />
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Mine were a bit off from the upholstery, but with a little finagling I managed to get them on and secured with a washer and nut from inside the trunk.<br />
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Oh, pro tip, if you are having trouble getting the screws lined up and you happen to have a two year old that is EXTREMELY interested in anything you do where you don't necessarily want their help....grab a flashlight and have them hold it up to the hole from the inside of the trunk. It actually was super helpful to have that little light, and it certainly kept the kid busy and out of the way for a minute.<br />
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It's super comfy, has a ton of room to store games and blankets and I made it using leftover drapery fabric so it matches my 70's style room. And no, the fabric is not my first choice, but the drapes came with the house and for now, I don't HATE it. Plus, I did it all with materials I had on hand so my out of pocket cost was $0...I LOVE that!<br />
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Awhile ago I posted the transformation of my dining room which can be seen <a href="http://houseofcardboardandglue.blogspot.com/2013/01/lets-eat-aka-you-made-that-ceiling-out.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Likely, this is a project that you've never seen anyone do before....and probably won't in the future since the husband swears he will never help me do this again. </div>
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And although it caused some frustration...(well to be honest it was a giant pain in the neck...literally...I mean, have you tried to glue stuff over your head before? It gets old fast...) I couldn't be happier with how it turned out!</div>
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I've always loved tray ceilings. There's just something about the depth of them that I find pleasing in decor. So, once I had demo'd the dining room and had pretty much a blank (<a href="http://houseofcardboardandglue.blogspot.com/2013/01/lets-eat-aka-you-made-that-ceiling-out.html" target="_blank">PINK</a>) canvas, the idea hit me and I was wondering if and how I could make one using cardboard. Of course, as I realized that this was completely possible, I also realized that I could easily (relatively) do just about any shape I wanted. So here's how we did it:</div>
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After painting the ceiling the color I wanted inside the circle, we put up the template (just a single layer of cardboard cut to the rough dimensions). We dry fit this, trimming where needed and making sure the circle matched up and looked, well, circular.</div>
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After which, we screwed it into the studs then added like a million more screws to help reduce the chance it would sag over time.</div>
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I put paper under it for a nice easy time painting it once it was up and not getting paint into the circle (I'm somewhat obsessive about clean lines....)</div>
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I think the husband and I both looked at it with the paint up and were like "OMG, we're going to have to take this thing down after all this $%&*.....we need to make this work!"</div>
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The solution? A cardboard cap. We simply made another layer and glued it to the one that was firmly attached to the ceiling already. After a bit of caulking around the rim of the circle and the joints of the layers, we painted and finally had a smooth, beautiful finish.</div>
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So with the weather getting nicer and nicer every day as we move into spring, I'm less and less inclined to work on my indoor projects. The living room design is almost complete, but I won't be ripping it apart and redoing it until mid to late summer.</div>
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So this is the first year in several that I have gotten around to starting seedlings in time and managed to not kill them. Hooray! In fact, at this point I think I have about 22 tomato plants...not sure what to do with all of them but that's for another day...</div>
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I wanted to try some vertical planting this year for several reasons. The first is that my neighborhood is plagued with bunnies who eat all my lettuce. The second is that even though I have a large lot, not much of it is suitable or desirable for carving out a vegetable garden, thus leaving the plot I have quite compact.</div>
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I had already made trellises and plan on using a lot of makeshift Topsy Turvey-ish planters for the tomatoes and peppers. Through my pinteresting I've been seeing TONS of these awesome vertical planters made from rain gutters. (Like this cool looking one <a href="http://aquaduckraingutters.com/2012/04/17/rain-gutter-recycling-spring-salad-garden/" target="_blank">here</a>)</div>
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Now it would have cost around $40 to make the gutter planters, so not too bad, but I like free.</div>
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This is the beginning of the project, but those planters are made of cardboard (lightly coated with a bit of spray paint). There's a hole in the very bottom for drainage. I filled them about 1/3 of the way with drainage rocks, then soil the rest of the way. I'll be finishing that row and staggering another row below it. If they work out well enough I'll probably put up even more. </div>
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Speaking of compost...another one of my favorite uses for cardboard is to use as the brown matter in my compost bin!</div>
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Ok so I've been working on this beauty that my hubby randomly brought me home from work</div>
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Yep, that's a cardboard deer head. </div>
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I had some big ideas for it and took quite a bit of time experimenting and testing some new techniques to make it happen. Some of those things are working out...others not so much.</div>
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Anywho, I had intended to post the finished head this week, but it's not finished...and honestly I'm so irritated with parts of this project that it may never be, but that's for another day!</div>
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One of the things I stumbled across while attempting to make the placard look wooden was a fairly easy way to make cardboard look almost exactly like wood! (Oh, the possibilities here!) </div>
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This weekend, we finally had some nice weather so I was more than happy to abandon my indoor projects and tackle a few outdoor ones. It's been such a cold, windy, grey winter and I am so ready for some Spring! </div>
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This project is what I like to call a "Sidecycle". It's pretty much when I take an object (typically a piece of furniture), turn it on its side, and make it become something new. Can you guess what my new garden trellis is made from?</div>
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As I was diligently supervising the search for the wood to make the vegetable bed, I had noticed a bed of another type....the bed frame from a futon leaning against the wall in my garage. Now, this bed had been through many moves and a whole lot of abuse over the years so it was never going to be put back up as a bed again. In fact, when we last took it apart the other month, one of the side pieces was broken pretty badly. The frame was just one of those things I hung onto thinking I could use it for something else. That "something else" was going to be my new garden trellis.</div>
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My husband and daughter were tilling the garden box as I lugged the two pieces into the backyard from the garage and announced my intentions. </div>
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A few minutes later, I got the go ahead...or rather hands were tossed up in the air and he said "I don't care what you do!"....Anywho....</div>
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I started by removing the end pieces so they were a little more ladder-like. </div>
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And there it is! My new garden trellis made from an old futon frame. Simple, effective (hopefully anyways...), and free!</div>
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Recently we redid our basement, adding shelves for storage and sealing the walls. Nothing super fancy, but we were able to add much needed storage shelves and open up a crafting area for me to work (my husband also wanted to keep my in-progress crafts off of his workbench...hah! Good luck with that, honey!)</div>
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Anyways, as with most crafters, I have a ton of small items and miscellaneous things that I hold onto with the intent of using them for a project some day. I needed some type of solution for limited space to store a lot of stuff and this is what I came up with.</div>
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Now, I could have spent quite a bit of money buying a bunch of those plastic drawer thingies, buuuuuttt that's really not how I do things...</div>
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I had an old bookcase that I had found on the side of the road one day and somehow managed to get it into my truck and home. Some of the lower shelves looked like whoever owned it had a dog who enjoyed chewing things quite a lot. Such a shame too, the bookshelves are solid wood! </div>
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After a minor argument with my husband about it (he thought my idea was crazy at first) I had him help me put some casters on the side and turn it over. Yeah, it rolls! </div>
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Next, he made me some cardboard drawer inserts, slid them in and TA DA! I have a huge storage system for my craft supplies. It rolls easily, but is heavy enough to stay put when I want it to and it even provides me with a bit of extra workspace on top (great for cutting fabric is what I find).</div>
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I get quite a rush when I manage to find a solution to a problem re-purposing things I already have. This was a simple project and I didn't spend insane amounts of time with detail work making it pretty (it will eventually get covered in glitter anyways) nor did I spend a penny! </div>
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So the first project in the dining room I tackled was this cute little feature window. (Go <a href="http://houseofcardboardandglue.blogspot.com/2013/01/lets-eat-aka-you-made-that-ceiling-out.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see the entire finished room) I felt like it needed something to set it out in the room...it looked so lonely and uninspired in the original room. </div>
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I felt like it put the room off balance or something...it needed more "weight" for lack of a better word.</div>
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Here's how it looked before I did anything to it:</div>
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At first I thought about making a frame for it to enlarge the look and attempt to make it look like a painting....but seriously, that's far too easy. Plus, it doesn't really require glue or a giant mess so I had to come up with something else...something different. </div>
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So I was at the fabric store one day looking for inspiration and I stumbled across this beauty!</div>
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Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures while putting the fabric up...mainly because I was covered in glue and I have found int he past that glue and electronics don't mix well. However, the process is rather simple and the most difficult part was only having two hands when trying to mod podge (Mod Podge is a decoupage glue, there are many different brands and types, but mainly it is a clear drying semi flexible glue) the top of the arch. </div>
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I believe the result is stunning! So enough of my blah blah blahing, here's some pretty pictures! </div>
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My favorite time of day in this room is when the morning light is coming through this little treasure of a window!</div>
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Yeah that's right....pink and green.</div>
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Well, it took me a year to get started and about 5 months to finish the room. I had it mostly done for Turkey day, which was my original goal, but the finishing touches didn't happen until right before Christmas.</div>
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There were a lot of crafty elements and detail work for this project, so of course things took longer than expected and a few snags slowed us down.</div>
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But here it is!</div>
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So some of the more interesting elements are my <a href="http://katykrafts.blogspot.com/2012/09/dining-room-progress-my-decoupage.html" target="_blank">Mod Podged</a> window.</div>
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Yes...I did this with fabric, ribbon and glue! I LOVE the way it turned out.<br />
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After I peeled the glue off myself for the window, I started painting...that's the boring part no one wants pictures of lol.<br />
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Once I painted, I used a watered down glue to apply this beautiful lace (ebay) to the bottom half of the wall.<br />
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It went up rather easily but it was definitely a two person job! I had a friend come help me with it in exchange for beer.... (Thanks Rachael!)<br />
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The top part of the wall I wanted subtle stripes, and I almost went with just painting them and using different sheen paints, but I'm terrible at painting....and I'm obsessive about having straight lines...<br />
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So, I had my husband make me some cardboard strips at work and I glued them to my wall. Then I painted the whole thing, and glued a round ribbon-type material to the edges (found it in the leather crafting area of the craft store...it's not leather though)<br />
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The finished product is subtle and EXACTLY what I wanted! Hooray when crafts actually turn out!<br />
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The textural differences between the cardboard and the wall makes for an extra layer of depth that I just love and couldn't be happier with.</div>
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That chair? Yeah I got a pair of them from a yard sale for $5...here's the before and after</div>
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I'd say they are much more my style now....</div>
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Then there's the chalkboard wall...the kids loved it at Thanksgiving and Christmas! And the beauty of it all is, if they put something I hate to look at up there, I can "oops!" stumble and "accidentally" fall into that portion of the wall wiping it away....</div>
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I trimmed the transition between the main walls and the chalkboard wall with some of the trim ribbon I used in my window.</div>
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And last, but certainly not least here's the project that my husband swears he will never help me do again...The ceiling.</div>
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Yes...I made that circular tray ceiling out of cardboard.</div>
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The medallion in the center is actually the table top to an outdoor bistro table that was left at my house when I bought it.</div>
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Over the next few months I'll be posting about how I did some of these things with more pictures of the process and whatnot. </div>
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Next room up for redo is the living room and I have some amazing things planned!</div>
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One more picture of my pretty room :)</div>
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A special thanks to Emily for bringing up her camera and getting some good pictures for me when the limits of my camera phone were exceeded....</div>
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Happy crafting and keep thinking INSIDE the box (then cut up the box and glue it to something)! </div>
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