Most of my finds were odds and ends to start making this new home of ours, well, OURS. And then I ran across some really cute things in Michael's. I think over the years, I've personally paid someone's salary, they love me! One of the things I found and decided to spend some time embellishing were some wooden phrases. They hang out in the wood working aisle, with all the unfinished shelves and pre-cut balsa wood pretties for home decor. They're about 1/4", cut out of MDF and are already semi-gloss painted. Cost me a whopping $1 a piece.
The second I saw these, I knew exactly what I would do with them and where they would go. My little area of the office/game room, over my scrapping desk. Fitting place, they can provide inspiration there.
I thought of a quick idea and already had embellishments picked out in my head. I remembered that I had several items at home already that would go decently enough with the color scheme and I didn't need anything overly dramatic, it would have deterred from the words themselves, so K.I.S.S. If you don't know what that stands for, let me help you. Not being derogatory there, just stating the method, don't hurt me!
I roughed them up a little too, but you can't really see it well in the pictures. Only just slightly ran over the edges with a little course sandpaper, and scratched up the base, just to give it a "distressed" look. I love anything distressed looking, not sure if its part of "Shabby chic" but both are starting to become a part of my home decor style.
Embellishing started with color scheme matching fake shape rhinestone things, I really don't remember the true phrase for these. They are my daughters, we bought a pack on sale from Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago and now she bedazzles everything she OWNS with them. So, a couple of the above in random places, little bit of hot glue and we're good to go.
As you can see from the pictures, I picked up these flowers a few weeks ago from the clearance centers of Wal-Mart. The wally world closest to my place has decided to go through renovations to their updated store design, so of course, everything is being shifted and sold off, the great mass exodus of products that do not fit their style anymore. So, I lucked out. Popped a one of these in coordinating colors on each phrase and viola, instant pretty!
Great color scheme don't you think?
With all the embellishing finished, I hot glued some ribbon to the back to hang it from, and that was it. All finished. I'm considering messing with more of the ribbon to add a bow as the glued on ribbon strips look a little plain, but I'll figure that out later.
The finished product!
And here's the set, hanging above my scrapbooking desk. I'm going to rearrange this later (and level it out, now that I look at it), maybe add a shelf or something else to make it my own, but for now, I think it looks okay. Its a start to finally making this little piece of the house my own, and inspiring future projects.
