after moving in to our home i have decided to take my time in filling it and decorating. i wanted to make sure that the pieces i put in our home truly reflecting us...(kyle deep down loves bright colors and repurposed art)
when i laid eyes on all the examples that she put in her blog i knew that i must try my hand at creating my own work.
kyle has been hard at work building the kids an awesome tree house in our woods behind the house. our friends let us have access to all of this wood from some of their contracting work and so i knew that some of the scraps would be perfect. which was ideal because i didn't have a pallet or even know where to find one.
i went outside and started shopping for spare wood. i settled on these weathered 2x6s that had the character that i was looking for in my mind for this project. next i found a painted green piece that i just had to use because, well, i have a slight obsession with color. i laid the pieces i liked out and went and found kyle...he did all the difficult parts.
he figured out how to piece them all together and still allow for a ledge for me to hang it up. at this time i also found this awesome scrap of blue wood that i wanted to use. i didn't want it jutting out obtrusively on the front; i needed it to be as organic as possible. so, i asked kyle to put it where it would peek out from the wood that was crooked. kyle started looking at me like the man that does all of the work on "picker sisters" so i knew that i needed to be done.
after he finished putting it all together it weighed like 5 tons...give or take a ton. i saw the doubt in kyle's eyes but i pressed ever onward with my project.
i wanted to create a softness so i decided to use some scrap fabric and make some rosettes for the front. i made so many. so many. i think i am still pulling off dried glue from under my nails. once i arranged them where i wanted them on the project i used hot glue to secure them.
all that was left was painting. i never write first because i have learned that when i do that it loses some of the charm...i try harder to write "right" and it somehow doesn't feel like i want it to feel.
i settled on "my cup runneth over" for the text for several reasons. first, and most obvious, is that my cup truly does overflow with blessings from above. secondly, as an ever present reminder to find blessings in the hard moments and a reminder of katie, who always spoke/wrote these words...no matter what her life encountered. i think of her often. i think of her spirit.
i love, love, love how it turned out.
i want my children to know how hard we work to make our house a home and more importantly i want them to know that i know that they are a huge blessing in my life...sometimes i have to get on them about cleaning rooms are writing with tidy handwriting...but no matter what, life is precious.
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