A New Design Wall

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Raise your hand if you are completely over winter. I know some of you are in the southern hemisphere and I am officially jealous of your Summer weather right now. We are going through another set of extreme cold days (-35F wind chills, and we aren't even the coldest!). We can't really leave the house. The kids and I are so stir crazy! So over the weekend I thought I would take advantage of the cold weather and organize my sewing space.

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I've wanted to build a large design wall for quite some time. Elizabeth at Oh, Fransson has a great, affordable tutorial. Somehow on Saturday I talked my husband into taking a family trip to the hardware store to get the supplies.

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I will admit right from the start maybe I didn't entirely think through how we were going to get home two 48" x 96" sheets of foam insulation board on an extremely windy day - with the backseat full of kids and carseats. I would have gotten a picture of the mayhem - foam strapped to the roof of my car, with a 2" x 4" on top to help hold it down, with TONS of duct tape all over, taping it to the car to keep the wind from snapping it in half - but I thought my husband was going to kill me and wouldn't find the humor in the situation. :)

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We did make it home, barely. We went all backroads at 25 mph. And I spent the rest of the day rearranging the furniture so the design wall would have the natural light facing it. I love how it turned out. I just need to hang them on the wall somehow. I'm hoping it's big enough for me to stop using my "design floor". If you have the space (even for a smaller one), I highly recommend building one! Maybe just on a less windy day.