Styrofoam Rocks

Ok so I just moved into a new place last weekend. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Its much bigger and I have my own bathroom can't beat that! The girls are still sharing a room but its much larger and they have their own bathroom.

So now I have a bigger place I have bigger blank white walls. I didn't do much in my last place because there were more windows and it didn't look quite so blank as this one does. So I have been looking online for different ideas and here's one I decided to try.

First you start out with a blank wall. I chose the one in my dining room.

Then you start out with styrofoam, glue, ribbon, dental floss (yes i said dental floss) and scrapbook paper, or whatever you're going to use as your pictures.


Then you cut your styrofoam with the dental floss (seriously). But you have to be careful you don't break it (I did .. .twice ... that's where the GLUE comes in sheesh!)


Once you have your pieces cut (or before, whatever). Layout your paper and figure out how you want it to look. It took me FOREVER to do this part, so I took a picture when I was done so I could remember how to arrange it on the wall.


Then glue the papers to your foam squares and the ribbon around the outside edges.


Then start putting it on the wall! The website I used said to use the sawtooth picture hangers but since I live in an apartment I used mounting tape. The styrofoam is so light it seems to work ok (but then again we'll see if in 3 days half my wall is on the floor and the cat has mangled it).


I didn't have a ruler or a level of anything of that magnitude to make sure this was level and center blah blah. So I noticed the outlet on the wall was in the exact middle so I just centered the center piece above that and then just stepped back in-between each piece and made sure it was pretty even.

THEIRS:

MINE:

Of course, I don't have baby poop green walls but I think it turned out pretty good! Whatcha think? Not too shabby for my first time eh?