My Tree

Like a lot of teachers I know, I'm slightly obsessed with Pinterest.  I found a wall decal tree that I fell in love with here.  Of course I saw polka dots and swirls and it was perfect.  I decided to get crafty and make something similar, because I didn't think that would A) fit on my wall and B) stay on my wall.

My first problem is that I am not a crafty person, so I started by cutting swirls out of circles.

It was going pretty well until I got through about 50 swirls and realized I had no idea how I was going to attach them to the wall. It was going to take infinite amounts of glue or tape and was going to look incredibly messy.

So I decided to do what I really didn't want to, paint.  I made a tree, which was the easy part.

I also made my own swirl stencil because I couldn't find one I liked.  I'm picky.  After some tentative trial and error, I found out that painting is actually therapeutic for me.  I'm really not an artist, so it takes a lot of concentration and effort on my part.  It's a huge excitement when the paint actually looks great too.  Here is about an hour into my paint job:

I'm pretty impressed since it is all coming together and looks pretty good.  I'm pretty sure the tree is never moving from my wall.  It's not quite done yet, but it's a good start for the year.