Last week, when I finished the hallway with Mr. Poppin, an Ikea canvas, and an original piece, my mom called me up and said, “It’s just so easy for you, isn’t it?”  I had to laugh, because although the hallway wasn’t difficult to put together–other things are.  It definitely isn’t always easy for me.  The last 48 hours I have been working on a project that I would put in the “challenging” category.  I just could NOT figure out how to execute the oversized letters I fell in love with at Anthropologie.  Good news, it won’t take you 48 hours, a case of carpal tunnel, burned fingertips or even the $98/letter Anthropologie is asking.  I have to thank my sweet hubby, Chris, for being such a mastermind.  He thought of the final solution and we now have our own 25″ tall, 2″ thick HUUUGGGEEE letters to prop above our bed:

Pretty, huh?

But let’s back track (just for fun) so you can see the mess I went through before getting to this point.  First, I thought of cardboard.  I had a bunch of boxes in our storage closet, but only two were large enough to fit a 25″ letter.  Welp,  I only needed two.  Victory.  I thought, “Wow, this is going to look awesome.  So easy.”  I was taking pictures a long the way to show you how I was doing everything.  I burned my fingers a hojillion times trying to hold the pieces together while hot-glueing (not recommended).  I got this awesome spray paint that Rustoleum makes that is a “hammered metal” effect–perfection!…. …. ….until it seeped THROUGH the cardboard leaving it just solid silver and looking very cardboard-y.  Blah!

disgrace

So, day two rolls around (yesterday) and I went out and got foam core.  I figured if I made the front and backs of the letters out of something smoother, then I wouldn’t get the texture showing through the spraypaint.  I was also crossing my fingers that the sweet spray paint I found would actually stay on top of the surface–I didn’t get that far.  Once I cut out the “J” using a box cutter (I don’t know if that’s what it is technically called, but it has a different name in my book now.   I blame my carpal tunnel on gripping that sucker for too long.)  and glued the sides to the bottom (more burns) I realized, the top wasn’t going to fit exactly.  Arrrgggghhhhhhh!! AAAAAHHHHH!!  I was so close to giving up.

A mess

The light is shining through my hair–looks faareaky!