After we came back from South Africa I decided that I needed to make a photo collage of all of the pictures we took of the beautiful African animals. My inspiration for this was from something I saw in a Pottery Barn catalog. I have included a sample so you can get the idea - doesn't it look awesome? So sophisticated.Anyway, so I bought the frames - found them for $4 each at Target (LOVE that store) and I printed out the pictures at Costco. Next, I needed a shelf to put them on. Found that at Target as well for $9.99. Did I mention that I love Target? The next step was putting it all together. I wasn't even slightly nervous to hang up the shelf I bought. My en
tire life I have always been the DIY type. I put together my own Barbie dream house, I built numerous bookshelves and other miscellaneous furniture over the years, I built a headboard and I have even hung numerous other shelves in my day - I would consider myself pretty handy. That was until this shelf hanging session went awry. See picture. I used the cheap molly screw that they gave me with the shelf. It went into the dry wall super easy and I was so proud of myself. I put in the screws and I was all set to hang the shelf. The second I put the shelf of up the molly screws pushed all the way through the wall and poof, they disappeared into the darkness. What the heck? How did that happen? I did everything right. I thought, it must have been that it was just cheap hardware - I knew I had some more in my handy tool kit in the garage so I decided to try again. Again, got my molly screws in, put in the screw and go to hang the shelf and wallah....dang it...IT HAPPENED AGAIN. So now I have a wall with 4, count them 4, gaping holes in it and no shelf and cool photo collage to speak of.
tire life I have always been the DIY type. I put together my own Barbie dream house, I built numerous bookshelves and other miscellaneous furniture over the years, I built a headboard and I have even hung numerous other shelves in my day - I would consider myself pretty handy. That was until this shelf hanging session went awry. See picture. I used the cheap molly screw that they gave me with the shelf. It went into the dry wall super easy and I was so proud of myself. I put in the screws and I was all set to hang the shelf. The second I put the shelf of up the molly screws pushed all the way through the wall and poof, they disappeared into the darkness. What the heck? How did that happen? I did everything right. I thought, it must have been that it was just cheap hardware - I knew I had some more in my handy tool kit in the garage so I decided to try again. Again, got my molly screws in, put in the screw and go to hang the shelf and wallah....dang it...IT HAPPENED AGAIN. So now I have a wall with 4, count them 4, gaping holes in it and no shelf and cool photo collage to speak of. I gave up. Jeff is out of town and I decided to just leave it as is and wait for his "man-pinion" about the situation. He is probably going to laugh at me. I am laughing at me. Guess I didn't pay close enough attention to all those DIY shows on TLC and HGTV during my Life As A Wife.
1 comment:
Aww, that's too bad the screws didn't hold up, but good for you for at least trying! At least the holes don't look THAT big. :)
Bec
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