Happy Monday All!  Sunday was a rough day, so today I am happy it is Monday, write this down because you will probably never hear me say it again!  I planned to clean the kitchen and get some things organized yesterday, but that got delayed when I opened my refridgerator to see all the shelves covered with water!  The freezer froze up and had nowhere to drain except the fridge.. ugh!  So everything had to be taken out and put in the "beer fridge" in the garage and deep freeze so this one could thaw.  Then Jack (our avid hunter of anything that runs) decided to come in contact with a skunk!  EWWW!  Needless to say I did not accomplish everything I wanted to yesterday!  But Saturday I was able to tackle one project!

So I showed you last time how I removed my Wall Words and wanted to be able to reuse them on another wall, well...... I combed my house to find a wall to put them on and since we painted, all the walls that I would want to put it on were painted the same color as the words!  Now what do I do?? Well being "crafty" as John calls it, I found an old poster frame in storage that had a bunch of pictures in it from college (sorry becca, the pics will have to go in a scrapbook now instead :) 

For being a poster frame, I was suprised to find that it had a white matting around it even.. hmm nice!  I had some Natural Cotton Fabric that I bought to recover some pillows in the living room and decided that it was the perfect color to put behind my quote.

I cut it big enough so that once in the frame I could pull and tug on it to make sure it was tight and there were no wrinkles, I then flipped it over and hot glued the edges to the back of the frame.  Sorry, no pictures of that, but I think you are all smart enough to figure that one out! haha.

I first laid out the letters on the frame to decide whether I liked the colors or not and I think its going to turn out pretty good!

I then eyeballed everything to make sure that it was even on each side (I HATE to measure, I know its a terrible habit, but it usually turns out pretty decent so until I epically fail at something this is how its going to be done! haha)  But here is the finished product!

I think it looks awesome in our newly painted brown hallway!

Since I put the words on a frame instead of another wall they stuck pretty good and I did not need to use a heat gun or torch to make them stick.  But here is a short how to anyway.  I will say that if you ever do have to use one, test a small area first.  I used a handheld blow torch to put up the trees in my office shown here:

I also used it on the white words in the first picture and it did not change the color of the vinyl or anything like that.  When I first put these up (with some extra help of course) they kept falling back down.  They each came in pieces and had to be put together yourself so it was a pain in the you know what!  So when they started to fall down someone gave me the tip to use a heat gun or blow torch.  Only use the tip of the flame and move quickly so that you do not completely melt the vinyl.  I went over each part a little at a time and as soon as the vinyl started to ripple (when you do it you will know exactly what I'm talking about) I removed the flame and used a gloved hand (or towel because the vinyl gets hot quickly) to push the decal down into the grooves in the textured wall.  Now I was told that you should not do this unless you plan to leave it on your wall because it may damage the pain and possibly even the wall.  I didn't plan on changing them so I went for it!   I get so many compliments from people who think that the trees are actually painted on the wall because you can see the texture through the vinyl!   (PS we first tried a blow dryer and it just didn't work very good at all).   I also had to remove some vinyl words from the wooden awning on my office and this was also done using a heat gun.  So obviously the heat works both ways!

Alright well I was pretty excited about my project so I had to show you that it worked!

The big "Cheers for Beers" party is this weekend for Johnny boy's 30th Birthday!  I will post some great recipes that I am planning to use as well as some fun pics from the event!  Busy week ahead!  And our new pub table and stools gets delivered tomorrow! So excited!  Have a great Monday!!!