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.
