See this letter M?

It’s been bugging me for awhile now, it just seems so dark and dreary. I originally made it out of a clearance letter M and some scraps from our first apartment’s curtains, but it was time for a change up. (I of course took pictures for y’all along the way, because I seem to have this problem now where I can’t do even the simplest DIY task without taking pictures of the process.).
So here is what I did, it literally took me 10 minutes to do this and is the same process I used the first time.

Here is a close-up of the M before.

I ripped off the fabric and this is what we had. When I originally bought it was green and white zebra striped. I felt judged by the cashier for buying it and I didn’t blame her…it was that kinda ugly. I painted it white before I Mod Podged it last time, but you can still kinda see the zebra stripes.

I wanted to brighten it up, so in true No Spend style I used what I had – which in this case was leftover curtain fabric (again). I wanted to use a fabric that was already in the room since we’re getting a little  patterny in there. According to my husband at least, except that he called it “frou-frou”. Don’t feel bad for him, there IS a giant manly snakeskin on our wall that I’m sure you’ve noticed.

Anyway, I had juuuust enough left.

I traced the letter onto the fabric…

Then cut it out..

Mod Podged the letter…

 

Funny how such a small change can balance out a whole display. I’m always moving things around on there so a few other things changed too…I feel like my before and after should be in a Highlights magazine. Does anyone else remember those, with the “spot five things that are different” photo games?