The Kitchen Photo Project

As if I didn't already have enough items on my to-do list, I keep adding more.  This wall in our kitchen, however, has been bothering me for sometime and I felt the urge to act.

About a year ago I hung up an old cork board from my bedroom with the intention of having a centralized area for meal planning, school activities, and chore lists only it didn't work out that way and it wasn't used. I had also planned on painting over the original Midnight Blue paint, but I never could decide on the color. It was definitely time for something new.

I really wanted some pictures of the kids so I had 11 (odd, isn't it?) black & white photos enlarged and then matted them to larger frames because I just love the look of a mat.  See what I mean?



I had originally balked at the price of mats at Wal-Mart and thought I could get them cheaper at Hobby Lobby only to find that they were $1.99 apiece and out-of-stock.  On a whim, I looked at Dollar Tree and found 3 pack 5x7 mats and 2 pack 8x10 mats for a fraction of the price - gotta love that.

I really have trouble arranging things asymmetrically (I could claim it's those strong Protestant roots calling me to do everything "decently and in order" but that may be stretching things) so I cut paper to scale and rearranged it on the wall until I had what I wanted.

And I'm sure some other person thought of this long before me, but I simply nailed through the paper then ripped it off to hang the pictures.

And the final result?

Andrew told me the pictures would make me smile.  He's definitely right.