How to Make a Mossy Monogram

May 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I mentioned on Monday when I revealed my living room that I made the little mossy M that is sitting in front of the lamp and books on my new dresser. Today I thought I would share with you how I made that little mossy monogram.

Dresser Reveal

I realize this isn’t rocket science, and there are a million tutorials out there on how to make these. But, this tutorial is the cheater’s way to make this {or in other words, probably the most imperfect way of making it}.

Mossy Monogram Tutorial

All you need is a cardboard letter of your choice, a bag of moss and some Mod Podge.

Mossy Monogram Supplies

You can adhere the moss to the letter in many different ways. I chose Mod Podge because I already had it and I knew where it was {aka it wasn’t packed up in a box somewhere}.

Start by adding a little Mod Podge to a small area of the initial.

Adding Mod Podge to Mossy Monogram

Then break off a chunk of the moss and press it onto the Mod Podge.

Adding Moss to Monogram

You’ll keep doing this on the entire surface of the letter.

Adding Moss to Mossy Monogram

Until it looks like this. At this point you may be thinking, um that’s really ugly. And you would be right. I told you this was the imperfect way of doing it. This kind of moss though is easy to pull and cut though. So I just pulled some tufts here and tufts there and trimmed with some scissors.

Mossy Monogram Before Trimming

Until it looked like this.

Finished Mossy Monogram

And there you have it. A pretty mossy monogram.

Next week I’ll show you guys the ‘before’ of my new dresser along with the tutorial for how I refinished it.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Anybody going on any fun vacations? I’m heading back to Nash-vegas for the long weekend to do a little wedding dress shopping. Fingers crossed I find something!

Linking to: Serenity Now

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Our Love Story {Part 2}

May 22, 2013 By 1 Comment

Today I’m back with Part 2 of our love story. I’m not sure how many parts there will be. Just seeing where it takes me.

If you are new here, I’m re-telling the story of how my fiance and I met. Here’s Part 1 of our love story.

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I gave in to my roommate’s ‘dare’ if you will and agreed to join eHarmony with her. I was super hesitant about it. In fact, I had no intention of even paying for the service. I was more or less just curious the type of people that were on it. I quickly learned though, that in order to see these people’s pictures {which, let’s be honest, that’s kind of an important factor}, you had to pay.

So me, being such a good friend, told my roommate to pay for the service so I could see what some of her matches looked like {assuming we would have some of the same} so I could decide whether I wanted to shell out the money or not. Well, one thing I forgot to mention was that I selected the whole U, S of A when it came to people I wanted to be matched with. Clearly, I wasn’t serious. If I had been smart {or maybe not given the turn of events}, I would have just done a certain number of miles from Nashville. Because let’s be real, being matched with someone from Montana probably isn’t going to work out.

montana{Source}

So after checking out her matches, I realized hardly any were the same because she was one of the smart ones, and selected a small radius around the Nashville area.

Darn. Back to deciding whether to fork out the money or not. Curiosity definitely got the best of me. I was being matched with people and I had no idea what they looked like. Could they potentially be really cute?

Needless to say, I bit the bullet and paid for one month’s subscription.

Aaron and Megan

Soon after I was matched with a boy from Greenville, SC. I was excited about that because I went to college at Clemson and Greenville was only a short drive away. My friends and I spent a little time on the weekends in Greenville and I missed that area. I even said when I graduated that I wished there was a reason for me to stay. God definitely has a sense of humor.

We began to communicate back and forth. But I had no expectations of anything coming out of it. Little did I know that God had other plans.

To be continued…

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