Home Decor

About a year ago when I moved to my current position at the hospital, I also upgraded to an actual office.  I happen to work with a decorating diva, and she had helped most of the people in our department put their offices together.  She had an awesome magazine that showed 9 12x12 squares covered in scrapbook pattern paper and hung on a wall, it was an really neat look.  I happened to be stumped at the time on what to hang on the wall that I would be facing every day.  So I went out to purchase all the materials and make these squares.  Luck would have it I could not find 9 different papers I liked in the same color scheme.  I found 2 pieces of fabric I LOVED!  Now what was a girl to do?  I was milling through the idea and found 3 3'x1' foam boards.  I had learned long ago from my mother when doing flowers or anything artistic it must be in odd numbers, so I raced back to the fabric department and picked up a solid.  I used only a ½ yard of fabric per board.  I used Elmer’s spray adhesive and sprayed the foam board sections at a time and laid the fabric on the board “smoothed” with my hand to get the wrinkles out. I then folded the fabric over like I was wrapping a present.  On the back side I used hot glue to ensure the fabric was secure.  I used push in picture hangers (secured with LOTS of hot glue).  They are super light weight so a tiny nail holds them up.  I tossed the idea of using ribbon to hang them but in the end like the clean look of the boards themselves.

Here they all done and in my office!  They go wonderful with my black white and red theme!