I'm sitting on our patio today, with light rain... a sweater, and a cup of peppermint tea I'm chilled to the bone. But I'm forcing myself to stay outside... fresh air apparently is good for you. Although, I'm not sure if that still applies when you are living downtown... possible exhaust fumes?
Either or! -- The good news (we found out right before we left for our little trip) is that the fabric is in! Which when you have waited for something as long as we have.. was similar to like a child at Christmas... except we had to pay for our gift... and we didn't get turkey or sugar cookies. Mmmm cookies.... ok ok back on track.
SO! I did it, I sat down and figured out how we could do this bad boy. The first step was pretty simple, remove the picture from the frame. Easy Peazy.
Once that was done, I got some cork from the dollar store here -- but you could find it really at any craft store. I used a spray glue adhesive that you can get at any craft store. I sprayed glue on both the cork and the picture.
A word to the wise though, cut the squares to match the board before clueing, I thought shaving off the sides would be easy.... I was wrong.... really wrong. Once we had all that trimmed up and glued it was a matter of putting the fabric over top of it. Now, when you have been waiting this long for fabric and you're about to use it, you're little heart starts pumping and you say a little prayer that you don't screw up and have to wait another 8-10 weeks for a new shipment.
I cut the fabric a bit larger than the board and started to staple... I put in almost an insane amount of staples.
After stapling it looked really good... I was actually shocked, I personally couldn't find a "How to" video online and was pretty much convinced that it didn't exist. So this is what it looked like:
And when we put it back in the frame (and with a deep breath it wasn't too heavy to put on the wall now)... it looked wonderful. But I'll let you judge for yourself.
Yes the upside down kitties are still watching.... with their all seeing eyes. Eventually we are going to have to replace them. All together we're pretty excited with how it turned out, it is a cork board.... but we don't like the idea of putting things on it quite yet. Maybe soon....
The last wonderful event, was as this was happening and I went to go get my morning starbucks... I ordered my regular coffee misto, the cashier took my name (or so I though) and I waited in line... only to find out, that my name is no longer mike but in fact....
Yes.. I am now May, or at least for that day I was thanks to my wonderful coworkers.
Guy on the move gets updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. -- Why? It's because we are in absolute love with these days! We are perhaps having a dance party every time we load a post.... true story.
