I’m still scrambling around trying to finish setting up the studio, taking care of all of the little details now so I won’t have to worry about anything when I’m trying to get down to business. One of the things I’ve worked on since my update last weekend was covering my boring old bulletin board with some beautiful fabric! Today I’m going to share with you how I did it in my own crazy little makeshift way (As you can see, my minty jars still haven’t dried!).
1. Buy a basic bulletin board and find the perfect fabric. I picked up my bulletin board at Target for about $10.00 and used some gorgeous half-price fabric from the scrap bin at JoAnn Fabrics. Make sure you choose fabric that you really like, one that would work well to pin things on to without poking obvious holes. I actually ended up using the back side of my fabric because, while the front was really pretty, it was way too shiny and I was afraid it would make it hard to see all of the stuff I wanted to put on it.
2. Use a staple gun to attach the fabric to the board. A month ago, if you asked me to use a staple gun, I would’ve given you a very worried look because visions of high-speed stapling gone awry would have filled my head, but you know what? They’re not that scary after all! I used the shortest staples I could find at the hardware store because the bulletin board is pretty thin, and I didn’t want them to go through the fabric on the other side. I would recommend stapling the top and bottom first, pulling as tight as you can to avoid a ripple effect on front, and then move on to the sides. Fold the corners over the back like you’re wrapping a present.
3. Hang it up. Since the fabric covered up part of the board that was designed to help hang the board up, I bought a simple bracket to attach to the board and two big screws to attach to the wall so they could slide into the bracket and hang the whole thing up so it wouldn’t be propped on my desk. I used a screwdriver to attach the bracket, and then marked a straight line on my wall to screw in the big screws, but unfortunately our house was built in 1900 and the wall is made out of a very strange, very hard material that I couldn’t even stick a push pin in if I tried to hammer it. So, this step will probably work for you if you have a normal wall, but since I don’t, I ended up having to result to propping mine up on an old shelf.
4. Pin it! Gather things that inspire you, whether it’s printing things off from the internet, looking through your photographs, or writing a list of your goals, and use pushpins to keep them all up. Et voila, you have transformed a boring, old brown bulletin board into a beautiful inspiration board!
I’ve been working on organizing and decorating my studio a little bit every day this week, but there’s still a little more I want to do. I thought I’d give you a sneak peek of what I’ve been working on and show you how far I’ve come as of this wonderful Sunday morning while the room is so lovely and bright and I’ve got a beautiful breakfast in front of me.
I hung up three small blue corner shelves yesterday and I’m now on the search for decorative things to fill them up with. I’ve got some temporary things up there for now like this cracked thrift store picture and an old but still good-smelling candle. I love that Target has so many things in this gorgeous turquoise color now!
And now it’s time for me to get some work done! Speaking of work, I put together a new little checklist on my sidebar so I can keep track of all of the things I plan on doing to launch my business this summer and to give you an idea of what’s coming next. As time goes on, they’ll change over to links so you can click on the post I make for each one! Undone to do lists really bug me, so I’m hoping this will give me even more of a reason to get crackin’. I only have nights and weekends to work on this stuff, so I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, but my current goal is to get everything checked off by May 30th.
My desk is still sort of a work in progress. It’s actually a small dining table – I got it so I would have a broad surface to spread out and work on stuff. Eventually I might build some shelves or put a storage cabinet underneath.
