a bit o' gold.

as i've said, we just moved into a new home at the beginning of september. it's my grandparent's old house and we are slowly making it our own, one project at a time. it's a lot of work, but it's been so fun watching it come together.

this summer, we spent many a saturday painting every room in the house. and since i got pregnant near the end, nick actually did the majority of the painting (which we hate painting...). i spent a lot of time picking out pieces for decorating, which made my little heart ever so happy. what we didn't count on as we excitedly planned out our home and our to-do endeavors was life getting in our way. between pregnancy sickness, regular sickness, my dad's hospitalization and our trips to boston to visit him, it has been one rough fall. we haven't had much time at home to decorate and organize or to get settled. but it's coming... slowly, but surely.

one of the things i started collecting this summer was gold picture frames. i had a vision in my head of doing a gallery wall above our couch; i thought the gold would look so pretty against the light-blueness of our living room/dining room walls and give our living room a touch of elegance.

i'm so glad i did.

i gathered frames from goodwill, tj maxx, the christmastree shop and a couple of old ones my grandparents didn't need anymore. nick's goal for the weekend: to clean out our garage so we can park our cars and shelter them from the frost&snow. my goal for the weekend: to create my gold gallery wall.

both are done. yay.

i have a problem hanging things... if you like behind my plate wall, or my other wall decor, you just may find a plethora of nail holes until i got something just right. awful, i know. so... i decided to take some time and do the ole-newspaper-on-the-wall trick.

i traced each frame on newspaper, cut out the squares and taped them all to the wall in the pattern i wanted. then, i nailed all my nails and tore down the paper, hanging the pictures. i only had two nail mishaps this way. perfect.

here's the finished product:

i used some of my *favorite* photos of nick&i, bella, and our family (knowing i will be changing those family ones ever-so-soon to include our newest pumpkin!) i love our new gold gallery wall... not only because i think it's beautiful, but because it represents the people i love most. which is why i am a huge fan of using family photos as wall decor. so special.

next on my to do list: recover those pillows! i have some fantastic fabric i bought at joanns this summer, just waiting to be made into pillows for our couch, loveseat and wingback chair.

one thing at a time :)