The Antique Window

So this is a post little different from the normal parenting struggles and more about my project of the day. Our house is very rustic farm house themed and my favorite pass time while my husband is at work is to slip in new decor pieces and see how long it takes him to notice. So today I took a break from my incredibly crazy week and craft a project. So let me just say I wanted an antique window for our house basically ever since we moved in. But I wanted one that the holes were small enough to hold pictures of the kids. Ive searched for months and months at yard sales, antique stores and many craft sales. I have never found what I was picturing in my head... I decided to start asking family to see if they could start keeping an eye out for me. None of them found anything while out and about but luckily my Granny very kindly found a beautiful antique window in her she shed. It was so beautiful and perfect and exactly what I had been searching for. She gave it to me and I was so overjoyed I thought I would finish it immediately but once I finally had what I had been searching for I was so lost as to what should go on it or in it. It took me months to find the perfect pictures a paper to match my vision. But I finally decided on these pictures we had gotten done professionally of the kids but switched them all to black and white to give it a more rustic vibe.

Then went on to find the perfect paper and found this beautiful wood patterned paper with flowers or lace on it. So I measured all the paper I wanted to fit in the window frames and laid everything out in the design I liked best.

After that my cheap butt started taping each little piece of paper and picture in its spot. it took foreverrrrrrr.

But it was so worth it! It came out better than I ever imagined and fits over our couch perfectly. I keep walking in our living room just to stare at it like a crazy person. I know to many people out there this is not an exciting thing but to me it was the highlight of my stressful week. so hope you guys love it as much as I do but here's my finished project!!

This is B signing out to go stare at my window again.