I had this little spot in my house that’s been bothering me for the past two years. {No judging. We all have em.} And as I’ve mentioned (like twenty times now) we had our family portraits taken this last August. Only I still hadn’t ordered any of the photos. Our dear friend Martin was a bit understandably “miffed”…(I say miffed. really he just kept giving me a hard time) I was the client who loved his work, but hadn’t any spot to place them. That was because I hate re-hanging frames, and I had a vision in my head of what I wanted this tricky lil spot-over-the-teli to look like. But frames are a TOTAL headache. So I just kept putting it off…
Until over the weekend, I was all, buck up, Ashers. You can totally redo this in a day. {No, I don’t really call myself ashers in my head. That would be stupid.}
So down the frames came. And taken apart they were. And within the first 12 hours, yours truly came down with the cold of all colds. And there I was, cursing myself and my desire to do less this holiday season, and how I magically found myself up to my eyeballs in paint, and frames, and glass, and matting. Because I have serious issues with ideas and thinking them through. I’m a dreamer. Not a statistics thinker through-er.
So, as icing on the cake for Jamin: I totally shmoozed him into helping me rehang them. I think he now officially hates me. We’ve broken up. And if there were to be my own personal place of punishment in Hell, it would be hanging frames over and over and over again, right after a really long, exhaustive car trip, complete with no potty breaks and screaming children. Because we all know that hanging a series of frames in a tricky spot requires the stamina of a princess warrior, with the delicate combination of lots of math and dry wall patching stuff.
But I think it was worth all the work…
I think my style is an ecclectic, collected over time kind of look, and that while I know it’s totally not for everyone, and the photos STILL are not in said frames (we had to go ahead and hang them because we had a dinner partay at our place last night and the photos take a few days-something else I forgot to consider-I’ll humor myself and repost when the photos are, in fact, in tact…which takes even more strategic planning…) The idea of unified colors and shapes and textures makes a potentially disastrous idea quite fun for a family wall.
I think that sometimes, the projects with the best outcome, are the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants-hope-you-don’t-die-and-your-spouse-doesn’t-break-up-with-you-because-you’re-a-complete-ocd-freak-who-likes-to-redo-things-a-bazillion-times-kind.
What’s something you’ve been putting off that can totally use a revamp? I wanna see. Love you all. Have a not as crazy somewhat relaxing week.
I’m going to lie down. *honking sniffle*
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