Things become new classics for a reason, after all.. P.S.

The next few weeks are shaping up to be that way too with quite a few room makeovers and a big bathroom reno in the works.I think it’s important to inject things with a healthy dose of reality every now and again though, don’t you?.

Well, the reality is that we’ve been in this house for about 3.5 years now, doing DIY projects, raising kids and just generally being a pretty normal family.All that normal family stuff can sure cause you to accumulate a whooole lots of junk.Can I get an “Amen”?.

While the main parts of our house are usually pretty tidy and presentable, we had a dark, dark secret.Well, a couple of them actually.

Whenever we had a piece of furniture that we didn’t need, or a toy that wasn’t being played with anymore, we would just put it in the basement.

Or the garage attic.The “real” version has a few details that ours doesn’t, so we tried to add in a few easy details, like the scalloped edging there, to make it feel a little more special..

Cutting out the pockets was pretty simple, especially since the “inspiration” model had slightly imperfect looking pockets too.It just makes it look more “haunted”!.

We cut out a few ghosts, pumpkins, and (the piece de resistance!)a little spider, stuck em’ on, and had some instant Halloween fun to hang up anywhere we wanted.. To mimic the different fonts and types of letting and numbering in the inspiration version, we used a mixture of scrap booking stickers and hand-drawn numbers..