I have a big rubber stamp I carved that is basically a geometric pattern. I like it, but, by itself, it isn’t much to look at. I was playing around with it and realized that it made a pretty wallpaper like pattern. Now, I have plans to primer a small wall in a boring little nook so I can stamp away with the hand carved stamp to see what it looks like.

If you don’t want to carve your own stamp, you can still make your own hand stamped walls. There are a ton of foam stamps with all …read more

I was umm…researching. Yes, that’s it. Researching ideas. And I happened to come across a great wall treatment idea. Book pages. I don’t know how common cheap books are near you, but we have a lot of library book sales and thrift store shelves lined with used books. This means there is a lot of raw material to work with. (I know. Tearing up a book curdles your soul. But some books deserve to be torn up. Look for them and you won’t feel so bad. A text book from 1987 or a children’s story so badly written that it …read more