Thanks and things...: Pinterest

These littles love to draw and color and paint and cut paper in to teeny tiny itty bitty pieces that I have to vacuum up... but I digress. Back to the point of this post, my kids love art! And I love to display their art but I also love to access my refrigerator at various points throughout my day and well this wasn't working.

Okay so I've been known to exaggerate a little... but for my sanity I had to come up with a better solution. Lucky for me I actually remembered something that I had pinned eons ago on Pinterest. (Oh come on, I know I'm not the only one that pins something so brilliant that I wonder how I could live without it and then promptly forgets I've ever seen it.) So I packed up the kids and headed to Hobby Lobby!

My idea came from this blogger's post Naptime Craft Mommy. You can follow her steps or you can do my modifications. She purchased her wood from Home Depot but I found 3ft slats of unfinished wood at Hobby Lobby for $5 each. A little more than she paid but I didn't have to make a second trip with the kids and in my book that's worth a few extra dollars!

Item's used:

(2) Unfinished wood boards $5ea

(1) Acrylic paint $0.99ea

(12) Painted wooden thingys $0.79ea<--- like the original blogger I have no clue what these are actually called

(1) Foam brush $0.14ea

(1) Pack of wooden clothes pins $1.99

Grand Total $22.60 **Note this would be much less if you used coupons, or found some scrap wood, or waited for those little wooden thingys to go on sale. But I'm not that patient.

Steps:

1) Paint the boards and let dry. I think I let mine dry for 30 min. And I only had to do one coat but you could do more if needed.

2) Attach the painted thingys to the clothes pin using wood glue. Let dry.

3) Attach the clothes pins to the board using wood glue. Let dry. **Note: The original blogger screwed her clothes pins to the board but I opted for a lazier option, naturally.

4) Make husband hold finished product up to the wall in various positions until you are either satisfied or have driven him crazy!

5) Measure, level, and then nail to wall. I didn't even bother finding studs because I'm not hanging bricks from this thing, just paper. And unlike the original blogger I used a thinner, lighter weight wood so keep this in mind when you decide how to attach yours.

6) Take pictures, admire your work, make your husband tell you how awesome this project is over and over and over... It's a good thing he loves me.