I know I have posted before about my concerns around having too many quotes and sayings signs around my home, and I am desperately hoping this latest project won't be taking me over that edge.
As you may recall, I have a yet-to-be-updated-or-renovated 1950's cottage kitchen, (Complete with harvest gold range, thankyouverymuch) and I've made it work for us. It's got a cozy feel, thanks to the black and white stick on tile checker board floor my fantastic son-in-law put in for me over five years ago. (In case you're wondering, those stick on tiles are incredibly affordable, hold up great, and you can pull up a damaged one and replace it lickety-split, if need be!)I also adore my bookcase full of thrifted and collected dishes and such...
....but there was one project I have been meaning to do since the week I moved in here. Above the front wall of cupboards is a soffit about 13 inches tall. It runs the entire thirteen feet wide up there above the cupboards and window, and it seemed to be screaming for...a quote.
(Do you agree?)
The reason it has taken me so long (besides the fact that I am always getting sidetracked with new projects and life....) was that I couldn't decide on the right quote. I narrowed it down to three of them, and then I pondered them.
For a few years.
Once I decided on the quote, I had to decide between a twelve foot long board with the sign painted on it, (Easy to take down if I tire of it) or to paint directly on the wall. I ended up deciding to paint right on the wall, as I feared a twelve foot long board would be a. heavy,(Aaaah! What if it fell?!) and b. could warp potentially after a time, and would then hang wonky. (I am a nut about envisioning worst-case-scenarios...in all areas of life.)
Next, I needed to choose the right font.
And decide if it should be all upper case, or both lower and upper case.
Ugh. See what I mean? So many decisions. (I know. I sound melodramatic, but, seriously, it had to be right the first time, because a do-over on this size of a sign would be unbearable for me.)
I decided (or so I thought) on a font choice, and printed out the twelve-pieces-of-paper sign template, and then decided the wording needed to be all uppercase. I then had to re-print the entire template again, of the back sides of my first template.
By now you are seeing why it has taken me five plus years to get to this stage of my project.
I need to interject here that, as I was typing this post, Ralph came into my workroom and asked what my post was about. When I shared this with him, (he had no idea I had been planning this project, let alone for five years, because...man opinion.) He then gave me his entirely unsolicited said man opinion on my quotes, making various facial expressions (from frowns to total distain) and a couple of eye rolls at the quotes that had made the top three, and wrapped things up by offering up some alterations and re-wording for my chosen quote. (See before reason I didn't feel the need to tell him about my project...)
Thank God I didn't show him my font choice.
Anyway.
Tomorrow it is supposed to be dreary and cloudy here, and that is the absolute perfect weather to tackle this project! That kind of weather puts me in a nesting mood, and I am pretty sure I will be in my full and total glory working on my painted wall sign. (Also, it is Saturday. At least I think it is, and this feels like a Saturday kind of project.)
Wish me luck!
(Are you like that? Does the weather inspire you to do certain projects?)
