our eclectic gallery wall.

When I started putting together the gallery wall in our front entry, I had planned on spray painting all the black frames white. But after having the mishmash of frames on the wall for the past two weeks, the eclectic look has grown on me. And if I'm being honest with myself, I'm not going to get around to spray painting those babies. Standing out in the heat to paint frames is pretty low on my priority list at this point.

You saw a sneak peek of our gallery wall in my 37 week bump post, but I want to share with you the different pieces of art that are on the wall and what they mean to us. Because that's always my favorite part of seeing people's gallery walls. :)

Some of the pieces are super sentimental to us-- things collected from our travels, special moments captured. And other things are just pretty to look at, like fabric scraps and colorful paper.

I planned out the gallery wall by tracing each frame and art piece onto packing paper, then I used washi tape to tape the templates in the configuration that I wanted. I didn't really plan out it out super carefully-- just kept in mind what was in each frame and threw them together. You can find many templates for gallery wall configuration on the web, but I didn't follow any of those rules. Just did what felt right.

Then I slowly started adding in my frames and other doodads. 

... and eventually ended up with this final result! 

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photo booth strips from a friend's wedding

Language of Love print from SugarFresh-- a gift from Chris on Valentine's Day while he was deployed

a sketch I did in college of the two of us

a painting from Japan that we bought when I visited Chris on his first deployment

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2 Corinthians 12:9 print from Naptime Diaries

kraft "w" from PaperSource that I painted and covered in scrapbook paper

a few of the pieces of paper from the "100 things I love about you" jar I made for Chris 100 days away from our wedding.

a photo of my grandparents when they were newlyweds. Such a precious photo to me, especially after my Pappap died in March '11. 

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lattice watercolor I did a few years ago

homecoming photos from Chris' first deployment

film photos from my La Sardina camera

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wall vase from Old New Again (with fresh cut flowers) 

a photo of my bloggy besties from Creative Estates

a photo of our wedding party

ceramic cross from when I lived in Mexico

Heather Brown print (my very favorite Hawaii artist)

So, there it is. I love how they all sort of "go" together without being matchy at all. Do you err on the matchy-matchy side, or are you an eclectic fan, like me?

  lindsay