Project Completed!

For the past two months or so, Madi and I have been working on a project in our house.  It started out as a "should we do this?  This could be really cool" type of thing. Little did we know how much time and effort we would invest in doing this project, but looking back now that it's done, it was totally worth it and we love it!  This picture shows our entryway, which looks kind of blah....we wanted to do something unique and cheap....

We first ran across the idea on the blog All Things Thrifty (linked from another blog called Jones Design). They had seen a design on a curtain that they liked, and they created a template of the design.  Once the template was made, it was a matter of tracing the template on the wall over and OVER and OVER and OVER. It took so long to trace it and get the design on the wall, but that part finally got finished.  It was more depressing when we realized that the actual painting would take even longer than the tracing. We started out really well, getting large portions of the wall done relatively quickly. After the initial excitement started to wear off, it started becoming a project we worked on when all other things in the house were done (which was very rare). Madi was so good to work on it during the days when I was at work (this was done as Lula was willing....also happens to be that Lula never wanted Madi to put her down).  Madi did do a ton of the painting though and I'd have gone crazy if I had to do it all by myself.  The parts she painted were way better than the parts I had done.  Thanks for your help babe!  The best part of this project is that it cost us $10 for the paint.

We are so glad we did this and now we are thinking about what we can do next....we have some ideas up our sleeves, so stay tuned!