"Ohhh!! Let's do an anchor" she says. "It'll be easy!" She says...
But, don't get me wrong... it looks AWESOME in our apartment!
First off, it took me forever to come up with a design I liked that would be some-what easy for the unexperienced crafter over here.
Primer went on first, then my sketch. This had to have taken me the longest! Keep in mind I have NO IDEA what I am doing and am not working off of any type of tutorial or stencil. So I ended up drawing out the whole thing, going with the half I liked better and placing my points where I wanted nails. To make it symmetric, I had to measure out where each of the nails would go on the second half. Wooooo! I know how to REALLY read a ruler now... hah!
Raymond helped with the nails :) He loves when I put stuff on his honey do list! <3
Time to paint! We went with a metallic silver color since the metallic gold of my sister's turned out so great. I'm thinking a flat, light grey would have been better for this application... but it still looks fab! :)
Sorry I don't have any pictures... but, after a few (probably not so even) layers, it was ready to dry and get yarned up! This had to be the most fun part. And Ray even took part in it :)
La-de-da... time passes... and it's done! Although it took a ridiculous amount of time to do, it looks so wonderful in our nautical home and it was totally worth it!
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