Chevron painting

So chevron is kinda a big deal right now. Super easy pattern to paint too! So I wanted some blue sparkly chevron goodness to go over my bed. I'm also on a pretty tight budget, so I wanted it to be cheap. :) So I bought a really inexpensive canvas at the Hob, my favorite craft store, and I measured out how big I wanted my stripes to be. I wanted some chunky big stripes, and I wanted them to be three columns across. Cue some math... And some erasing... And I had my lines drawn! Then I started taping off the edges with plain old blue painters tape.

I had bought a gallon of this gorgeous blue paint for a wall in this apartment that I had painted when I moved in, and I had some extra! If not, I probably would have used acrylic paint. Now I will share a crucial step that I completely skipped... Before you paint the dark color (in my case navy blue) paint the other color over the edge of the tape (in my case white) so that it bleeds under the tape instead of the dark color.... If you're a perfectionist, this is a huge deal... So when I was finished painting, while it was still wet, I sprinkled a little glitter over it. Because, who doesn't need more sparkle in their life? I'll try to take a better close up so you can see it. 

I am still pretty happy with my results, but the edges are definitely blurry! Maybe I'll pretend they're supposed to be that way... 

Jewelry mirror

Today I was feeling like I had to let the creative juices flow. I've had the STAVE hinged wall mirror from IKEA for a few years, and at a previous apartment I had put pushpins in the wall behind it for jewelry. Well seeing as how I move constantly, I decided it would be more beneficial for me to install more permanent and more aesthetically pleasing hooks to the back of the mirror! Hence my first bloggable project :)

STAVE mirror, IKEA $39.99

So I decided to line the back with a black suede fabric to cover the plain white backing. And conveniently enough, I had some extra fabric just laying around! To prepare, I painted the raw wood support slats black and then painted around the perimeter just in case my fabric placement wasn't perfect.

I attached the fabric with spray adhesive, and smoothed out any air bubbles with my hands.

I found wooden rods from Hobby Lobby (the Hob) and a fun metallic paint color to make them pop against the black suede! I cut them with my handy dandy saw kit from IKEA.

The search for hooks went on for awhile, and I finally found a set of 100 from Home Depot for like $5. I measured and predrilled holes in the rods so that I wouldn't kill my hands when I twisted the hooks in. I made the earring and necklace hooks 2 inches apart, and I made one row 3 inches apart for bracelets. I scored the sides of the mirror with a white pencil and glued the rods on with plain old Elmer's glue-all. 

Here's the finished product! I'll take a nicer picture once I move and get it hung!