Curtain Project in the Little Guy's Room

~ Drumroll Please! ~

I feel like there should be some sort of ceremony or celebration involved here. 

I FINALLY got the curtain project completed in the little guy's room. 

Where is my marching band with the huge percussion section? 

Does anyone else hear an echo? Helllooo? 

Nothing. No drumroll?

Do you ever just get in a rut with the projects, and let the unfinished ones slide for WAY too long? Yeah, um...GUILTY. Maybe it's a self preservation maneuver to balance out my perfectionist tendencies. Or...maybe it's BECAUSE of my perfectionist ways. -Hang in there with me, here's my theory... If I can't take the time I need to complete a project or task up to my standard from start to finish, and I have to do it in phases, it often fizzles. I think it's because I want the gratification of finishing it, so I can step back to admire my handy work while the sky parts, and angels sing. If I have to stop and start, well...where's the pay off in that? 

Al righty then. Now that you know for sure that I'm crazy, and I need marching bands or singing angels to help me celebrate my meager accomplishments, let me share my after photo with you.

Don't worry, I hear the angles in my head. They started singing just after the drumroll...

Ok, my husband shot this with his wide angle lens and in HDR which I do NOT normally like, since it distorts the pics and the HDR makes them look a bit cartoonish, but the room gets so much light blasting in, that it's IMPOSSIBLE to shoot normally. All of the following photos I shot. They are not great. Sorry.

Thanks to the sewing help from my mother in law, 4 little mini panels were made from one long 84 inch panel. 

I got the brilliant idea to hang them in a simple way. At first, I wanted to use a little peg hook board to hang the clips on, but I could not find what I wanted. Then, I decided to just go ahead and use nails. 

Does anyone remember that I have an aversion to measuring, or using a level? Yep. I'm crazy like that. Most of the time it works out great, but here's how this one went...

 Looks like I will be doing a little post project spackling and touch up. Any bets on how long that will take me? ;-)

 Once I got rolling, I really liked how they looked. Simple and cute. I just needed them as dummy panels, and I had tried big curtain rods in here before, but I really did not like the way they looked, so down they came, and out came the spackle and paint. Hmm...Maybe I should buy more spackle.

 Anyhow, I love how they turned out, and I love his little airplane room. It always looks so weird in pictures. The colors are really distorted. It's actually so much cuter in person.

 Sorry about the blurry shot. It's the weird lighting thing. I swear, it's almost impossible to get a good shot of this room.

So, I really am happy with how they turned out. The panels are from Target, and were marked down to $6.98 each. I used two for all of the windows, so the whole thing was just over $15 with tax. 

Not to shabby. Now I am sorry that it took me so long to get it done. 

Oh, and here's a little peak at how it looked before...

And after again...

But now that it is, I can hear the angels singing every time I walk by. 

Hope you had a great week! 

I'll be back tomorrow with another post. 

xo

-Lisa
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