Letter wall.

Good morning, everyone!! I'll have to keep this brief since I was up way too late playing Draw Something (anyone else playing?? It's so addicting!) and need to leave for work soon! But I really wanted to share my latest little project.

Ever since I got my new furniture and rearranged things, I've had this empty space above my desk. I kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do with it and after my recent (and first!) trip to Hobby Lobby, it was decided!

A letter wall! Since my name is Rachel - I obviously gravitated toward the letter R. I laid all the letters out on the floor trying to figure out the best layout and settled on one but that kind of went out the window as I started hanging them...but the beauty is that most of the letters are hung with a little bit of painters tape except for the big gold,  middle silver, and smaller black one below the gold one. Those were a bit too heavy to tape :-)

But the rest were just thin, lightweight pieces of cardboard or wood so the tape worked perfectly! Not a one has fallen off :-) Plus if after I live with it in this configuration and realize I need to make a change, it'll be super easy! (Except for the ones that are nailed - but I'll just work around those!)

And I still need to paint them but I haven't quite decided which ones should get which color, so for now they are au naturel.

Most of the letters were purchased from Hobby Lobby and all together cost less than $30!

**I'm linked up to Southern Lovely, Elizabeth & Co., and The Not So Functional Housewife **

Another layer.

After I got home from work yesterday, I cranked up the air conditioning and finally hung the upper layer of my gallery wall!

Everything was eyeballed and I am quite pleased with the results! There are a few spots I'm considering changing (and if you look closely, I'm sure you'll see them!) but that comes with time. Believe it or not, one of the things I really love about this wall is that it can be a continuous project!

Here's a quick look back prior to the new addition...

 I think the additional layer fills in the room quite nicely! Now if I could just so something about that couch :-)

Until next time...

Gallery wall.

I've been in my new place just over one week and I am pleased to announce that every single box is unpacked!! Woo hoo!! Now everything isn't in it's precise place yet but it's getting there.

One big thing that I checked off of my decorating "to-do" list this weekend was hanging my white frame gallery wall. I laid out all of my frames in what I thought would be the layout. I kind of improvised along the way and deviated from my original plan just a tad - but overall I would definitely suggest going in with a plan.

I started with the empty wall behind the sofa.

Then I took my largest frame and hung it center on the wall - I actually pulled out the tape measure for this one (and with the exception of the layout for the adjacent wall) everything else was eyeballed.

Then I started hanging!!

I had four other frames that I decided to hang on the adjacent wall and in order to make certain they were nice and even, I laid them out on some butcher paper, outlined each frame and then taped it on the wall.

Then I nailed right through the paper, removed it and hung the frames!  

And it was perfect!!

Here's the final (for now) look! I love, LOVE, love the way it turned out!! I still have a few holes I'd like to fill and have visions of adding a new row on top so I plan to slowly start gathering frames as I find them!

Oh and the yellow chandelier was a $2 brass one from the Habitat ReStore that use to look like this...

And now it's perfectly yellow!

And my new yellow pillow pulls everything together!

I'm not sure what my favorite thing about this wall is - it could be that most of these frames were in my grandpa's garage or were thrift store finds that have been spruced up with a little white spray paint. That stuff is magical, I tell ya, magical!


**I'm linked up with House of Hepworths and Thrifty Decor Chick**