A Work In Progress

I'm slowly, slowly adding personality and color to our house. It's a hard task when you have a very small decorating budget.

My first step was ordering updated pictures for our frames. Seriously, I have about 300 pictures from the first few months with Josie home and absolutely zero from the past year.

I have grand plans for our upstairs hallway, but like I said, I have to do it cheap.

God bless the creators of Modge Podge who allow me to recover anything I can get my hands on!

We've had this long painting at the end of the hall since we moved in and I decided it was too dark and not the right print anymore.

So out came the scrapbook paper, the spray paint, and the ole Modge Podge.

I covered the weird gold specked frame with a few coats of black.

Wondering how I got my picture since I spend my days at home alone with a two year old!?!?

Meet my photographer!

I am always impressed with how well she does behind the camera!

Then I forgot to take step pictures, but I just Modge Podged some paper on and bribed a girl from the youth group to write the words since I still haven't mastered cursive.

Now I just need to get my booty to Walgreens to pick up my pictures and our photo wall will be in business!

And my Book Wreath took the old pictures place at the end of the hall.

While I was at it, I started testing out paint.

I've got 3 rooms looking like this right now...

Hopefully I can convince Josie to take a long enough nap for me to actually make some progress!