How’s everyone handling this crazy time in the world today? I’m choosing to focus on the blessings during this quarantine. One of which is that I’ve been able to spend more time at home doing what I love…crafting!! Another thing I love is organizing…which led me to this project my son and I tackled. There’s just something about everything being in it’s place, neat and orderly that just makes me happy!!
My poor son, who some of you know, is a senior this year. To say this year has ended in such a disappointing way is an understatement. Again though, I’m trying to focus on the blessings during this difficult time and praying the schools will try to honor the seniors in some way with a graduation ceremony. I’m so grateful that my basketball loving son was able to complete his final year of high school basketball before this virus hit. He’s played some form of organized basketball since the age of 3 and has collected a large amount of trophies and medals along those amazing and fun 14 years. However, the medals were just in a box on his closet shelf and honestly, I had forgotten all about them.
One day, I assume out of boredom, he decided to clean his room and get it organized. HaHa!! I had to ask him if he was feeling alright because this is definitely NOT the norm for him. HaHa!! This poor kid has not left this house in over a month now so you can imagine how he’s feeling. During the cleaning of his closet, he found all of his medals and mentioned the desire to be able to display them rather than shoving them in a box in his closet.
I instantly started looking around the house for something that I could use as a display. I remembered that I had purchased a shelf from one of our local stores in town, Factory Connection, that I planned on repainting some day. I showed it to him and asked him if he thought it would work for what he had in mind. So…operation “repurposed medal shelf” began!!
First thing I did was remove all of the hooks to prepare the board for repainting. We used Waverly Chalk Paint from Walmart in the color Ink for the board which took two coats. All of his furniture in his room is black so I felt that was a good choice to tie all of it together. For the hooks, he decided to paint them white. Again, this required two coats of paint too.
After allowing time for drying, it was finally time to put it all together. This is the part I love…seeing your project come together!! I used my drill to re-attach the hooks and it was finished!!!!
What a fun and easy project we were able to do together!! Any time spent together with him is a winner in my book. He’s growing up so fast and I know I won’t have many more opportunities like this so I’m cherishing every second of it!!
It’s my prayer that you will take this time to get back to doing the things that bring you joy!! My one on one time with my son was special to me…and I would not have had that opportunity had we not been under this quarantine. I would have been at work, he would have been in school…so again…I’m choosing to focus on the blessings during this uncertain time and this definitely was a blessing to me!
I hope I’ve inspired you to look around your home and use things you already have to repurpose and add to your home decor!!
Blessings,
Dina
