Laundry Room Wall Art and Labels

Hola! If you are linking up from Young House Love or Bower Power, welcome! My blog is pretty new and this is my very first PINTEREST CHALLENGE and first link-up party. Well, I'm going to make up a new board on Pinterest untitled "DONE" and this will be my first pin...I'm so excited! This was my inspiration:

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Honestly, the decoupaged clothes pins made me nervous, but in the end it was the stamped clothespins that gave me the most problems. I read the directions wrong and ended up doing something completely different for my wall art. It's ok, the whole point was for me to have wall art in my laundry nook and in the end that's what I got. I live in a  small town with my local Micheal's/ Hobby Lobby 80 miles away- GASP!! So I headed to Wal-Mart and hoped for the best, luckily I found what I needed. I got 3 5x7 frames for .97, white spray paint, white paint ( that I ended up not using),  a pack of clothespins and I was very lucky to find Modge Podge. I already had the scrapbook paper. 

I spray painted the frames white, and "modged podged' the clothes pins. The process was pretty easy and the results beautiful, now I want to "modge podge" everything!! 

I was lucky to find some scrapbook paper that matched the ironing board cover I bought at Home Goods and from there I got the colors for my wall art.

Since my stamping didn't go as planned I got on the computer and made my own wall art using MICROSOFT PUBLISHER.  I got some clipart online, changed the colors, and made my art. I felt like a professional graphic designer, hehehehehe!!

This is my finished product and I'm pretty proud of it- not because I think it's pretty, but because I actually finished it!! YAY! Hope you like it.

I still need to hang up the art and laminate cards. I won't show the entire room, until I have everything done. Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed it! 

Oh, and if you can't read what's typed on the poster, it says:

The Laundry Room: Sorting Out Life, one load at a time...

Michelle

Pinterest Challenge?? BRING IT ON!!

Hi !! Is anybody doing the Pinterest challenge along with Sherry from YOUNG HOUSE LOVE and Katie from BOWER POWER?? I decided that I would give it a go.. It will give me a chance to make something I have wanted to do for awhile, but just haven't had the time/suppiles/motivation to do so. This challenge will kick my rear into getting stuff done. If you have never been on Pinterest- It's addicting!! It's an online board where you pin stuff you love/ want/ eat/ make or whatever... I have 27 boards in categories ranging from things for school, organization, Project life inspiration, Crafts, party ideas, holiday ideas, recipes, etc... So it was really hard for me to pick which idea of the 488 pins I wanted to tackle. Ultimately, I picked some wall art I want to make for my laundry nook. It seems like a cheap, easy project to make for my very first pinterset challenge.

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I'm going to play around with it, but I love the concept. Hopefully, I'll love it. I also wanted to make some labels for the baskets I have as storage in the laundry nook.

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I wanted to take it a step further and decoupage the clothes pins with pretty paper.

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I'll linking up my finished product on Tuesday (if I finish/ comes out how I want) over at Young House Love or Bower Power. Wish me luck !!

Oh & here's my weekly to -do lists:

THE ORGANIZATION/ CLEANING LIST

1.  Clean and organize upper kitchen cabinets

2.  Start cleaning up spare room

3.  Clean up bookcase & expedits in office. Also stuff on floor.

4.  Clean and Organize Marc's desk

This list-  I REALLY have to make time for- it's been neglected and most of the items are making a repeat appearance-

THE CRAFTY (FUN) LIST

1. Work on my niece's senior album

2.  Work on project life

3.  Make 1-2 scrapbook pages

4.  Put together Christmas planner

If you want to learn more about the pinterest challenge head on over here or here.  Also you can check out my pinterest boards here or on the pinterest icon on the right. 

Michelle