Entryway Project COMPLETE!

Before I had the baby I was on a frenzy to get all sorts of projects done, one of them was to hang hooks in our entryway. I've always wanted a spot for visitors coats and purses, but I've never loved the standard hooks I've found. I bought some at Target once and just didn't love it after trying to so I returned them. I told my artsy friend Heidi about my dilemma and how I wanted to do some kind of circles and she looked up some ideas for me.

I found this perfect set of three circles with hooks already on them at TJ Maxx and then decided to bite the bullet and buy the too-expensive-for-a-circle-of-wood from Michaels. I bought some hooks and hangers for the backs and some orange paint. Here are the circles before our magic wands touched them.

The girls were excited when they saw them. Not excited when I spray painted them white. Then I had my friend Heidi over to help me paint and try to place them. She cut out these circles and hung them for me to try to come up with a good arrangement. She was a saint because I was working on other projects trying to clean out the kitchen while she cut and arranged.

Notice the grey circle? So that's our door stop thing and I had painted it grey when I painted the walls instead of the bright cream color that stood out. Then we all thought it would be a perfect orange addition, good idea us. Oh, and I found that orange circle mirror at Target, PERFECT! Too bad all my circles weren't so cheap.

My saintly sister Uncle Tina was also here working as a slave for me during the final days of prego. She was organizing the black hole where my teas and chips hide out. It is sooo much more functional now and I know what is in there! Thank you! It was one big work party, so incredibly satisfying to see things take shape so quickly. The rest of the junk are the girls papers, I was making them binders of their stuff. And now I feel bad saying junk, clutter. That sounds bad too though. Stuff. And my diaper bag contents, yes, Tina also organized that for me.


The girls playing while we painted and organized.

Josh got the work crew pizza. It was such a fun afternoon!! I loved the company and productivity.
That night Josh and I were going to a work dinner. It was also my due date and as I look at these pictures, I'm a little shocked at my enormity. I mean, I knew I was huge, I felt like a whale, but then when you see pics in hindsight, it's like holy guacamole I really was a whale with legs! Heidi stayed behind with Tina while the kids finished eating. And then when we came home, our house was spotless!!! Tina really was amazing, we lived in a clean house for three weeks, it was awesome.

Today we had someone come look at our house and the cleaner the better, so I dropped the kids at a friends and cleaned like a mad woman. I can't remember cleaning so fast and so much! I decided to take a pic of my entryway while things were clean.
Isn't it adorable? And now that they're up, the girls like to hang their jackets on the hooks but now I don't like things on there because it's like artwork. I mean, when people come over yes, but not having the girls coats hanging there all the time. Anyway, I love it! Thanks Heidi!

Oh, and you might have noticed the grey circle a brighter orange, then after hanging them all up I decided we needed another light one. And then I also noticed that when you open the door fast, it really is a door stop and it scratched off some of the paint. Oops, forgot it had a function. Too bad I mixed up the color myself so now I don't have an even match, or the motivation to fix it. You know how when you finish a project, put everything away, a week goes by and you notice something wrong? It's just done in my mind. The boots are a quick fix though, the door now hits those instead. And they happen to be cute too!