A Rescued Canvas

I found this canvas at Goodwill.  What the fish? This thing is large and in charge!

But the price tag just couldn't be beat.  Yes please.

I didn't know what I wanted to do with it when I bought it but knew something could be made of it.
So today I decided to just do something  with it instead of let it sit in my "I'll get to you someday stash".  First thing was to paint over it and get it back to white again, like nature intended it to be.
Then I got out my letter stencils that I've never used.  If I had a vinyl cutting machine I wouldn't even be talking about stencils right now, but I don't.  So I am.

I mixed up some brown and black craft paint together and just applied with a foam brush.  Again, not really knowing what I wanted but just making it up as I went along.

I did know what quote I wanted.  So I just made me some lines with a straight edge and planned out where the letters should go.  I like how it looked, but it was too white.  So I added a little water to the paint and did a wash over the whole thing when the letters were dry.

And wiped it off with a paper towel.  .

 

The canvas naturally took the paint more saturated in some areas than others.  I like it that way, it gives it a more aged look.

And here is the finished canvas.

It fills the space on this wall in my bedroom.

One ghastly goodwill canvas rescued.

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Updates to the master

I've added a few little details to our bedroom.  It still has a long way to go, there are a lot of things I want to add.  It's not a very big room at all, so I have to be selective in what I put in there.  So I'm always on the look out for the perfect things.  But wall space is something I can play with and it doesn't really affect the flow of the room.
I've had this empty frame for a while and decided to try it over the bed.  I printed out some of my favorite photos of us in sepia and clipped them to the wire that already existed.  I used teensy tiny clothes pins.  I noticed something kind of odd when I was hanging these photos: I'm to his left in Every. Single. One.  I wonder what that's about?

Then I saw these german glass glitter letters in Michaels.  They didn't have a B so I had to get two P's and turn one upside down. Whatever. It works.
It makes our room personalized. 

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I added to our travel gallery wall from our last trip.  I just love this wall.

 

It tells a story of where we've been together.

 

A little chalk board art hangs on the wall opposite the bed.  I'm trying to get better at chalkboard writing.  It's not that easy.

I still want to change out the curtains and bedding, add some sort of soft seating and a cabinet or shelf for a TV.  It's fun to be a work in progress.

Teen girl bedroom makeover: part 1

My daughter Isabelle will be thirteen this year.  Thirteen!!  She wants her room to be more coordinated and decorated.  We've been working on it here and there.  Her big sister demanded she get rid of things helped her go through all her clutter.  Her walls are a very soft pale, barely there blue. Instead of paint the walls bright colors, we are bringing in colors in other areas.  She wants her colors to be coral, grays and blues.  We're on the hunt for the perfect bedding but in the mean time, we thrifted this large mirror and brought in a cabinet I had in another room.  We painted them both gray to bring them together.  I made this paper garland and we already had the tissue paper flowers.

 Also on the list are cute coordinating baskets or boxes for her to store her things inside the cabinet.

 

The girls are currently making some art to hang on her walls.  It's coming together and she loves it so far.