Cardboard art

I ordered a new comforter a month or so ago to kick start a little bedroom makeover. I love the comforter, but I think the best part was the box it came in! I was trying to come up with headboard ideas and I decided I was going to tear up pieces of cardboard, paint them, hot glue them together and hang them on the wall. After some thought, I decided that this wouldn't make a stable headboard, but it would make a pretty cool piece of wall art. TA-DA:

I think it turned out great! The only problem I had was hanging it. You would think it would be easy to hang since it's made out of cardboard. Not so much. Per my coworker, I would suggest putting chicken wire on the back to make it more stable. I ended up crisscrossing duct tape on the back to reinforce it. I put two of the removable wall hooks on the back and tied a string between them. That worked pretty well after I realized that the sticky stuff was old and that's why it wasn't staying in place.

In the middle of the night a couple days ago (before I came to the conclusion about the old sticky stuff) I felt something pounce on my head in the middle of the night. Clearly the only think pouncing in my apartment is Lizzy, so I rolled over, turned on the light and found her on the edge of the bed staring at the fallen piece of cardboard. It scared the poor pup. But I let her sleep in bed with me after that, so she was happy.

Oh, and I also forgot to mention that my spare bathroom is my workshop, so I decided it would be a good idea to spray paint in there. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. The fumes were bad, but they weren't the main problem. The main problem was that the spray paint floated all over the place and gave a nice silvery dusting to EVERYTHING in the bathroom. Ugh. But two or three Mr. Clean Magic Erasers (and lots of elbow grease) saved the day.