What's a girl to do?

Attempted photo gallery wall... FAIL! I thought I had it right. I bought the Ribba frames from Ikea. I had sepia photos printed. Pain-stakingly hung each 5x7 frame with triple measured accuracy. Then, about a day later all hell broke loose. My gallery wall looked like it belonged in a crooked house. All the pictures started out so beautifully and ended it up a mess! So what is a girl to do?

I tried these suckers.

Only they didn't "suck". The pictures to the wall anyway. They held for about a week when the first frame fell and broke all over the living room floor. That event made me have to take down two frames and use them elsewhere because the 9th frame in the 3x3 square was no longer usable. It took about 3 weeks for the others to let go. Sitting there talking to my husband about the kids who were BOTH taking a long nap, we were interrupted by 4 of the 6 remaining frames crashing to the ground. No glass was broken this time but one of the frames broke apart. Miraculously, the kids didn't wake up from the BANG! They aren't feeling well :(

So NOW what?! Whats a girl to do this time??? I KNOW!!!

Idea: I am going to get one of these things and I am going to hang my photo frames by strings on it!

No more lousy hang jobs, no more groups of nail holes in the wall, no more white hangers showing on the sides of the frames, and the best part is easy access for quick photo changes!

We just had the kid's pictures taken and I was planning on taking down the frames to create a gallery wall going to the upstairs and in their current spot would be a massive photo of the kiddos. Problem is choosing the ONE picture to blow up when I love them all... What's a girl to do?

Self-taught lesson

You will find this a lot on my blog. I will be sooooo strongly for something and then turn around and do something completely different. I am that person. I am the person who can tell and lie and believe it to be real. ( I don't tell lies)...

I was so sure that bringing purple into my home was a good idea. I love purple. Since I was a little girl my favorite color has been purple. But just because I like the color and its my favorite crayon doesn't mean I will like it incorporated in my home decor. What I mean is, if you read my last post, you will see that I thought I had an "Ah-Ha" moment with my decorating plans. I whole-heartedly believed that by introducing purple into my color scheme that my house would magically be on the fast track to decoration doneness. NOPE.

Adding purple proved to be harder and more expensive than I thought. None of my art work had the color in it. Purple didn't look great with my blue. My closet didn't have a single piece of purple clothing in it. What does that have to do with it? Well, because my closet does have all the other colors I am currently working with! Duh! Lesson learned...

Lesson of the day- Just because experts say incorporate your favorite color into your home design does not mean they are right. Purple is and always will be my favorite color but it is NOT my favorite color to wear or live in. I'll stick to black and white or neutral classics with pops of color mostly created in nature. ( Reds, Yellows, Greens, & Blues).