My Knock Off Wood

A week or two ago, my sister showed me this awesome DIY blog called Knock Off Wood. She had seen it on Mandy's sister, Ashley's, blog. Did you follow that? I love the idea and would love to build some of the furniture but we aren't really lacking on furniture in this house.

I did love these clip art rails though and thought that they would be cheap and easy enough. Besides, we have a big empty wall in the playroom that we have been needing to do something with. So I decided to give it a try.

The first step was to disassemble 50 clothespins and paint them. Seriously??? That sounded like a lot of work to me. So I decided to be lazy and try to just buy some white clothespins. When I searched on google for them, I found that a bunch of people on etsy make cute clothespins with scrapbook paper on them. I thought it was pretty cute so I got a few sheets of scrapbook paper I liked and got to work. In the end, I'm sure I spent just as much, if not more, time adhering scrapbook paper to the clothespins as I would have disassembling and painting them but I like how they turned out. I love the extra color they bring to the room and make it a little more funky.





This is an awful picture but here is the finished product. It looks cuter in person. We like how it turned out and are considering doing something similar in black for the living room to put pictures, postcards, and seasonal cards on.