Cornices

So my mom came to visit for a multi-function visit. First reason: She really missed Nick. Second reason: she missed me. Third. She missed Makenzie & Tanner.

Fourth: We went to Time-Out for LDS Women

Fifth: We went to my cousin Stacey's wedding

Sixth: To help me get started with house projects. I have been living in this house 5 months and have no window treatments, haven't painted, haven't hung pictures...etc.

So we went online and found an idea to help us make some inexpensive, easy, cornices.

Materials: fabric, foam board, duck tape, hot glue, L-brackets, staple gun.

So the project did not go as well as expected. I think the first mistake was trying to make a 14 ft. cornice when the online idea was made for a 3 ft cornice.

The next mistake was finishing them and then noticing we made them the wrong size...and having to do them all over again.

The next mistake was not coming up with an idea to hang them. Nick just loved me when I handed him our duck tape creation and gave him the impossible task to hang them.

The next mistake was trying to ask a manly Lowe's employee for help finding U shaped brackets....he started asking questions like "so what kind of wood are we working with here" and "so how are we going to screw in the bracket to poster board?" "what? you are planning on hot gluing a bracket?" This is what happens when you have girly girls doing mens work....

So after disaster after disaster, we finally had them finished and decided nobody ever has to know we used duck tape and foam board...we did a pretty good job....

I'm not ready to post a picture of the final product because I still have to paint and etc...so you will have to wait in suspense for the duck tape project photos.