After painting our accent wall black and choosing so many black and white accessories, the room was begging for color. I brought some into the bed through floral throw pillows, but those walls were still blank as ever. I needed art and I needed color... and I didn't have much money. I couldn't afford any of the art that's on my wish list, so I decided I'd make some myself! Now, I'm no artist but I figured copycat-ing some simple modern art wouldn't be that tough.

I hunted around Pinterest for some inspiration and came upon this watercolor print that I loved:


I found a few canvases on Amazon, used other materials I had around the house and got to work. I'm super happy with how they turned out!


And it was so easy! Check it out!

Wait, you want to actually know how to do it yourself? OK, fine here's the official tutorial:

What you'll need:

• Canvas(es) (Any size really, I nabbed two 18x24 canvases for under $20)
• Paint brushes (Any flat bristles will work)
• Acryllic Paint (I had a bunch of acrylics on-hand)

I wanted the colors to reflect the bright ones found in the throw pillows, so I selected contrasting reds/pinks and blue. I tempered that with a third primary color, a dark charcoal. If you don't want the painting to be too 90s bright-on-bright, choose two opposing primaries and one main neutral to balance them out. Then pick one or two different shades of each of the primary hues. Then throw in a couple other neutrals.

 The best part about this project is that it's pretty fool-proof. Squirt drops of each of your primary colors and a few neutrals. After you've dropped your colors, spread them with your brush up and down into broad strokes. You don't want to spread the paint that thin--the paint needs to stay wet enough that it can be blended with paint in the future. I made my drops pretty large, so they produced correspondingly large streak. If you want smaller streak, just make your drops smaller.


Next, drop more dots. This time you'll mostly want to use neutrals and less in-your-face hues, but if you see that your painting is missing colors that you want to be present (like the bright pink on the left), drop those too. I could see that my original drops took up a lot of the canvas, so I made these drops small. You can play this by ear. Next, blend with these with the existing strokes.


Finally, fill in any gaps with colors of your choosing. Personally I wanted more color, so I dropped more primary tones, but if you see that you've already made your painting brighter than you wanted, go for neutrals. All-in-all the project too around 20 minutes to complete and was well worth the time.

Most of my week has been consumed with projects pertaining to my bedroom remodel. So that explains the spotty blog posts--but it also means there will be an in-progress bedroom reveal coming soon! When we got back from our weddingpalooza there were boxes and boxes of things I had ordered for the bedroom, and that took a few days in and of itself to sort through. When I had them organized I marched my butt down to the hardware store and ordered up some black paint for the accent wall. I am SO happy with how it looks with all of the white furniture.

 I had a bunch of pics I hand't showed off from our vacay, so I threw those up and shared them with the world. I rented the runway once again and wore a Haute Hippie dress to Erin and Marc's wedding. Grant loved it on me, and especially liked the soft curls I had in my hair. I like the way it showed off my ginormous boobies. Let's be real ladies, the ONLY good part about gaining weight is getting Pam Anderson-sized honkers, and mine are about as big as my head at this point. I'm working on getting them (and the rest of me) smaller, but I sure will miss 'em.

Boo always manages to look dapper in a suit, as do the rest of those Rogers boys. They're all so tall and visually impaired. Gives me hope for that offensive line I'm hoping to raise one day.

Jonathan and I hit up Therapy last week. I love a good disco ball and the DJ is good before it gets too late. Plus, they have food during the week and you know I like a bar where they'll deliver food to me. Speaking of food, Grant and I celebrated our courthouse anniversary yesterday. We were married by a classically Brooklyn-ite man in a mustache, and it was amazing. He got insurance for the year. I got a great meal at Arriba Arriba in Morningside Heights a year later. Win-win.

Later on in the week my shipment of IKEA furniture came and I got to start on my epic vanity build. I painted and stained and installed hardware and installed the table and then Homer saw himself in the mirror and just stared and stared. See those lucite makeup organizers? They. Are. Everything.

Pumpkin spice things are back. Everything is happening in my life.