Canvas Art- Tutorial

The past month has been chaos in my house!

We remodeled our master bath and since that was going to be all new, I decided to paint our bedroom and get all new bedding!

We moved in to this house about 2 years ago and I have decorated every room but the master. I just didn't know what I wanted. I only had one wedding picture on the wall and that's it.

Now that is is painted I decided it was time to get something, anything, up on the walls!

I went to Michaels and came home with these

Some 16 x 20 blank canvas

sticker foam letters

white spray paint

Since this was going in the master bedroom, I wanted something 'romantic'. I decided to use a quote from our wedding song "Bless The Broken Road" by Rascall Flatts.

I just peeled and stuck the letters to the canvas ( I only used the white letters from the pack). **If I were to do this again, I would probably put Mod Podge down first to help them stick. The foam sticky stuff isn't very sticky.

After I had all the letters on I took it outside and sprayed it with the white spray paint. This step could probably be skipped, but I was thinking it would make everything the same color white.

After I had the quote on there, I also decided to add the year we got married to the bottom corner.

I LOVE how this turned out!

 

I am planning on doing something with the extra canvases to hang on each side of this. So look for that in a future post!

But for now, I am enjoying this one! I just need to go hang it on my wall now!!

Cat Litter No More!

Ok- so this is totally not a craft project, but it is a home project and I really wanted to share it. So bear with me :)

When I graduated college I moved into a one bedroom apartment and was out on my own! Exciting right? Try BORING! I had moved to a new town for a job, so I knew absolutely no one and I lived alone. Gah. So what's a girl to do? Why, get a cat of course!

Meet Zoey




Isn't she cute?

And then on a trip to Petsmart for cat food, I brought home this.



Meet Louie. (He was actually a tiny little kitten when I got him, but I couldn't find any pics from way back then)



Luckily shortly after, I moved back home to be closer to family, met my hubby and the rest is history. He likes to say I would have been a crazy cat lady if it weren't for him. Whatever.

And while I love my cats, I have always despised cat litter. I thought about taking a lesson from Meet The Parents and potty train them, but really, who the heck *really* potty trains a cat??? So I just dealt with cat litter. When we moved to our new house a little over a year ago the only place for the cat box was the guest bathroom. This also happened to be the bathroom where Sam takes her baths. Know what happens when water and cat litter mix? A big huge mess. And since I couldn't get the cats to keep the litter in the box, and I couldn't get Sam to keep all the bath water in the tub, my bathroom floor was always a disaster.

When I was about 6 months pregnant with my second I couldn’t take it anymore. And since I couldn't just get rid of my cats, I had to get rid of the box. I spouted out my instructions to the hubster and he built me THIS!



And I am sure you are looking at that going "so what!" Well- it is a BIG so what! This is in my kitchen



And this is in the garage



Problem SOLVED! NO more cat litter in my house!!!! Isn't it amazing??






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