First post- Door wall art!

SO, apparently there's an important football game on tonight...zzzzzz.

I've never considered myself to be a "blogger", mostly because I've always thought that blogs are just another way for people to complain about their 923485431 problems, without the constraints of text limits from Facebook or Twitter. However, upon discovering Pinterest, I realized that many people actually write USEFUL blogs. Blogs that glorify things I love, like making yummy food, turning old junk into functional pieces, and coming up with new distractions (er, I mean activities) for hyperactive children. I thought to myself, "I have a Bachelor's in English. I love writing. I love telling people about stuff that I make. I can blog the Internet's ears off". Anyway, I took this moment of lost control of the remote to create a blog. It will be filled with semi-nifty tidbits, borrowed ideas, and the occasional window to my family's life. With that, here's my first little DIY-ish thing. Since today was boring football day, I decided to do something that I've been planning for a week now.

We, like most of you, have a TV stand. Last week, it looked like this:

After several hours of labor and several trials of paint, it now looks like this:

(PS-If you're looking for high quality photos, you will not find them in this blog. I use my iPhone for everything, including pictures. They are not professional quality by any means.)

Anywho, as I'm sure you have noticed, the refinished stand is lacking in doors. I took off the knobs and saved them, certain that I would use them for something. Today, I found that something.

This is one of the doors. Note how the lack of a knob leaves a perfect place for a nail, and how the design looks suspiciously like a picture frame.

I found some great black fabric in the remnants section of Walmart. I got a 44" by 22" piece for $1.82. It's got a beautiful modern floral pattern with tiny holes where the blooms would be. It would have been lovely for curtains if I had a sufficient amount, but I obviously did not. Those little holes screamed at me, "Fill me with color!" and I could not deny them. I took my door and painted the center a bright, vibrant red:

I then took my fabric, laid it over the door, and cut out a section.

See how the red pops through?

I put Elmer's glue on the edge of the inside of the door and glued the fabric in place, being careful to keep the fabric tight to prevent wrinkles. After the glue dried, I trimmed down the excess fabric with a knife. I gave the same treatment to my other door. The finished product looks like this:

Now to just find a place to hang them...guess who has a chore to do after the game is over! :)