I feel like you can put just about anything on your walls and call it art. Growing up we had a couple paintings in our home. I don’t remember all of them, but I do recall that one was a kind of creepy sea captain. I don’t even know what became of him.
One day I asked my mom where that stuff had come from. She told me that when she and my dad were first married they went to some kind of art show to buy some things for their walls.
My how things have changed. Now you can take a stroll through Hobby Lobby, troll around on Pinterest for something to DIY, or grab something from a junk market–nail it up and call it art. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I actually like it. I mean, you are speaking to a girl who currently has a couple vintage pennants, a moss covered “S,” and a pair of ice skates {yes, I know it’s spring now…} hanging on her walls.
I like easy. I like cheap. I like non-permanent. I would even go far enough to say that I like whimsical. So the other night while Derek was busy working late and the image of a wall full of spring-toned windmills floated to my brain…I went ahead and made them. It’s springy. It makes me think of warmer days and a warm breeze.
These cost me zero dollars, since I already had hot glue and scrapbook paper on hand.
I used this tutorial for making them…but I didn’t waste time with spray adhesive. Mostly since I’m not accurate enough to line the pages up right. Instead, I just folded them together and used a dot of hot glue on the tips that would be folded into the center.
For each big windmill I used two full 12″x 12″ sheets of paper. The medium sized windmills were made four to a sheet and the smallest were made by clipping a couple inches off of a 6″x 6″ {medium} square.
To hide the central point, I used a scrap of paper rolled up and glued over the overlapping points.
To be sure that when I want these off of my walls they don’t take the paint with them, I hung them all up with 3m adhesive strips that are supposed to go with wall hooks. I had extras, so I used those. Honestly, I haven’t seen the hooks that they go with in years, so it’s about time they got put to use.
The whole thing took about two reruns of the Office. {Not watched during the day, of course. My lenten fast is progressing quite nicely.} So this is quick, easy, and I know you can do it.
I’ve also thought a whole wall would make a great photo back drop. Thoughts??
Well, let me know if you like my whimsical, windmill wall {or my alliteration} in the comments or over on Facebook.
