What Matthew Wouldn't Do: 3

Over the summer, I decided to tear up some books and use the pages to decorate.

However, the center (or lack thereof) has always bothered my OCD.  Here's a close-up (beware: if you are as OCD as I am, this may bother you).

Feel free to avert your eyes or scroll down quickly.  I decided today that something needed to be done about this.  Courtesy of the legally addictive street drug Pinterest, I came up with the idea to do a button monogram.

What Matthew Wouldn't Do:


Use a torn up book in a craft project.


Tear up a book. 


Do a craft project.

I looked and looked for a font that I could fall in love with.  One that had a spectacular letter C.  A "C" that I would want to look at every day.  I wound up going to Word, finding a font, enlarging it,  and tracing it.

What Matthew Wouldn't Do:


Do a craft project. 


Spend any amount of time looking for a font, especially not for just one letter.

After tracing it, I went over it with a black sharpie, and like the champ I am, didn't stay on the lines.

What Matthew Wouldn't Do:


Trace a letter. 


Share a mistake with lots of people.


Make a mistake.

I decided to use burlap as my background, so I cut out a rectangle and fringed the edges by pulling a few "threads" out.  I set the burlap on top of my poorly traced C so I could see the lines through the fabric.  After I began to lay the buttons down, I realized I didn't really need the traced letter after all.  Way to abandon the plan and freestyle.  The rest of this post is brought to you by the letters H and G and by the number two, as in Hot Glue Gun. 

What Matthew Wouldn't Do:

Make a craft.  

Come up with a plan and execute it badly.

Use a hot glue gun.

Use buttons for anything other than keeping his shirt closed.

After my button glue was set, I flipped the burlap over and put a thin line of glue around the edges to keeping it from fraying more than what I wanted.

Then I used little dots of glue to attach it to my wreath.

What Matthew Wouldn't Do:


Use a hot glue gun.


Make a craft.


Think a piece of burlap with buttons is blog worthy.

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.  I don't have to look at that lop-sided center anymore, and I'm not likely to forget my last initial now.  Besides, no Southern house is complete without something monogramed within it's walls.

What Matthew Wouldn't Do:


Decorate his house.  


Make a craft.


Use a hot glue gun. 


Oh, and I got a new lamp for the top of the piano, because with the time change and lack of over-head lighting on that side of the room it's too dark at 4:30 for my piano student to see her music.

I think it's pretty hot.

What Matthew Wouldn't Do:


Think a lamp is hot.


Buy a lamp.


Go forth all you non-Matthews of the world and create with buttons, hot glue, and burlap.   And feel free to call your new lamp hot.