My gallery wall...

I had the rare good fortune to spend this past weekend

alone in my own home.....

Don't get me wrong, I did miss my family......just a little bit...

But if you are a momma, you know what a little slice of heaven it is

to have the whole house to yourself for an entire weekend. 

I took the opportunity to work on the massive staircase wall in our new digs.

I knew I needed to have time and and a peaceful home to tackle this project.  {I might not recommend 

pouring yourself a glass of wine on Friday night while in the middle of hanging picture

frames on a steep staircase....I'm just sayin'.....}

And while all the "instructions" for doing a gallery wall state

that you should use craft paper to cut out ALL the sizes and shapes of

your frames and tape them up on the wall before you hammer

a single nail into the wall, I chose to live dangerously.  The only preparation I did

was to sort of arrange all the pictures on my bedroom floor.  And then, being the crazy

kind of gal I am, I started hanging.  Now, I will state for the record that there

may or may not be "extra" nail holes behind some of the pictures.....I'm just sayin'....

I am pretty happy with how it turned out.  I used a mix of new and vintage

frames, family photos, vintage prints and letters that represent our

family name.  Everything on this wall has meaning to our family.

This is a big wall so I purposely left space to add to the wall when 

I have updated photos.  

** The color on our walls is Benjamin Moore's "Halo".  Trim paint is

Benjamin Moore "White Dove".