Book Page Canvas

I live in the basement. The land of spiders, funny noises from above and a Harry Potter closet that emanates an unpleasant smell. My bedroom is humungo. So big that I don't know what to do with it, but I am tackling it one corner at a time. The first corner I decided to tackle is the one that greets you when coming down the stairs. So I took to Pinterest to find something I liked and found this:

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I knew immediately that this is what I wanted in this little nook. Except I wanted to make some changes. I have that right, don't I? I use two different books with different colored pages (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Memoirs of a Geisha if you must know), and I layered the pages instead of putting them in a straight line.

I bought a canvas (using a 40% off coupon from Roberts), 2 books from the D.I. and a bottle of mod podge. I tore out the pages from the books (I should have read Memoirs of a Geisha first). Laid them out how I wanted and carefully mod podged all the pages onto the canvas trying to keep them in the same place (it wasn't successful).

A few days later I was bored (it was most likely a Friday night. I gave up trying to go out and flirt with men months ago) so I decided to get my paint on. I had picked out the quote I wanted a few weeks back from a French book I read and loved in high school called Le Petit Prince. It reads, "Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur." OR "But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart."

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The font used in my example did not satisfy my desires. I wanted something a little more classy and straight. When someone else free paints words, I think it looks great, but if I did it, I would hate it and see the imperfections. I really liked the font from the below saying so I thought I would try and copy it. I did take calligraphy in college so this would be easy as cake.

I drew my lines, penciled everything in then painted the words on. The whole process took about 2 hours and I am pretty pleased with the results:

Below is my little nook all gussied up. Please note the panel on the wall on the right. That controls the water for the entire row of townhouses I live in. If you mess with me. I will not hesitate to shut it off. I like the nook, but am not in love with it. I wish I had a better perspective on scale and color and pretty much all things interior design.

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