As easy as 1 2 3

Earlier I was going on about what I wanted to put up in Gabriel's room.

So today I made this... it's super easy and uses up paper scraps of which I have many. 
I got a cheap plastic frame from a $2 shop (it cost more than $2, but on a side note, those shops are seriously awesome) Then I cut some craft paper to fit inside, traced letters onto different patterns of paper, cut them out, stuck them down and closed the frame.
So easy.

 The letters I traced were die cuts (di-cuts?)... (whatever)... from Basic Grey that I had from my days working at the Scrapbook Burrow. This is the first time I've used them since then. I imagine that it would be a simple thing to use any kind of font you wanted (thanks The Internet) it would just take a little more prep. That way you could change the size up too.

I didn't have the time, or patience. I did this while Gabe was sleeping.

Easy.

Wall Space

Renting kind of sucks.

This is especially true when you want to hang things on the walls. Thanks to 3M and their patented (and awesome) Command strips, I now have some things on the walls. Nothing really matches anything else, but I like it just the same.

Given that I create a lot, putting things on the walls kind of keeps them from messing up the ground... If you have seen my house you know that I probably need to put more on the walls... but it's a start.

I do have small pegs somewhere...just not sure where. Those big ones look a tad ridiculous.

Geek out. Wood elf spell caster and Valkia consort of Khorne. 

Old Chinese frame mum dug up Time Team style, Gabriel's hand prints, landscape by Joyce Chitty (Kyle's artist Gran) Gabriel asleep in the lagoon and the 'i love you' canvas. Told you I would do it. 

Sorry about the blurry photos...

I have always had heaps of pictures/posters/photos up in my room. I remember spending hours sticking up pictures from magazines when I was a teenager. Now everything is in frames and my fondness for buying lots of magazines has been curbed by financial priorities, but I still like the idea of making a space more interesting by putting cool things all over it.

What do you have up in your house?



ps. Thanks Jess for the magazine, I put it to good use as you can see (or at least use). In the end I even had too many letters... definitely would look better on a bigger canvas I think, but I like how it turned out. I posted about this canvas project here