We'll start with the baby's room. We got it painted green. Not sure if you can tell by the pictures or not. We also hung some sconces on the wall. What I'd really like to talk about though is the "artwork" on the baby's wall. So my wife wanted to get a monagram of Madi's initials put on the wall. She found this website where you could order a vinyl of whatever letters you wanted and stick it on the wall. I know, I thought this sounded awesome too. You know what, let me just show you a picture of the finished product first...
You're probably saying to yourself right now, "Oh, isn't that precious!". Ok, I'd like to draw your attention to a couple of things. If you noticed, each of those dots surrounding the letters is a seperate piece. Also notice how thin some portions of the M and the S are. You got all that? Ok, so this is what happened...
So basically, the directions for putting this up went like this - measure where you wanted it go, tape it to the wall, bend it back, peel of the backing paper, bend it back towards the wall and stick the vinyl on the wall. Wow this is going to be easy! The instructions were all written on this index card, how hard could this be?
One hour and thirty mintues later...
Ok, they failed to mention a few key elements on the index card. For one, you can't just peel the backing paper off. You have to SLOWLY and CAREFULLY remove the backing paper so that the vinyl doesn't stick to it when you take it off. So you basically need to go piece by piece. I'd like to you look back at the picture again and count how many dots there are around the letters. I'll wait......if you're actually counting, you're a crazy person. Secondly, they failed to mention that once you FINALLY get the backing paper off, you then need to do the exact same thing all over again to get it to stick to the wall. This time you also have to contend with the calligraphy style lettering that is impossibly thin. If you mess this up, well that kind of defeats the whole purspose doesn't it? On top of all that, now I'm starting to lose the feeling in my arms from holding them up over my head all this time. I say all this to say...
It looks lovely!
Enjoy the finished product.
