Family Day

I love Sundays.  They might just be my favorite day of the week.  At our house we consider Sunday's our "family day".  We get up and go to church as a "family" and then we usually stay home most of the day and just spend time together.  I love it!

So this weekend was a slightly busy one.  Saturday morning we had our tax appointment.  We also found out the MacBook wasn't sold yet so we should be getting it.  This Saturday I also got to spend the afternoon and evening with one of my best friends, Kristi.  We went to Ikea in Philly which was awesome.  I'm pretty sure you can never have a bad time at Ikea.  I also had Chick-fil-a for the FIRST TIME!  It was so delicious and I for sure recommend getting a milkshake!!  Well I saw a project earlier in the day on Pinterest where they had a quote "the best of times" and pictures of each of their kids with a clock below the picture.  The clock didn't move...it was set at the time of each child's birth. 

AMAZING!!!

 So while I was at Ikea I found a plain plastic clock for $1.99! LOVE IT!

So after church (which was AMAZING as usual) we came home and did some housework.  Also started working on this project.  The clock that I got was just a plain white clock and decided I would spray paint it, well I thought we had black but turns out tan was all we had so that's what I used (didn't feel like buying more spray paint).

STEP 1: disassemble the clock

STEP 2: spray paint the "frame" of the clock

I do have a confession...I love spray painting stuff...maybe more than Jerry likes

STEP 3: speckle paint the clock

The clock in my inspiration picture already had this done (plus they spent like $12 on the clock) so all I did was took some black craft paint and used one of those crappy toothbrushes places give out for free and "flicked" paint on it.  Then I let it all dry.

STEP 4: put clock back together and set time.

Got it all put back together...was a little tricky since I didn't pay attention to what I was doing when I took it apart.  Set the clock to 1:27pm, the time that changed my life forever.  Then decided to break out the trusty Cricut.

STEP 4: add title

I did erase the pencil line that is in the picture.  Now all I need to do is hang up the picture I have of Zander and the clock and it will be all done.  So now just waiting on Jerry to have time to hang it up.  Another confession...I tried to hang it up but when I bent like 4 nails trying to put them in the wall I decided I better wait. I'll post a picture when it's all done.

Jerry and I are going to have more kids so I know I will be adding to this so the OCD in me almost wanted to buy 4 (yes we plan on having 4 kids...and homeschool all of them but that's another blog for another time) clocks and picture frames because I will NEED to have them all match.  But I didn't and decided I would cross that bridge when it came there.  Plus I did think it might look fun if they don't match...but who am I kidding my OCDness will kick in and I'll buy all matching ones.