My attempt at home decorating

I love to create things, but home decorating has never been a forte of mine.  I have great ideas in my head, but they don't usually work out or I never have the guts to try them.  So recently I have been inspired to try a project.  First I saw this great idea of a gallery wall on my friend Kristen's blog.

Then I was playing around on pinterest and found this:

I've been wanting a way to show off the kids artwork rather than on the fridge and here was the perfect idea.  So I took my boring wall in the dining room...

...then I went garage sale hunting for picture frames and ended up with these...

...after taking out the artwork (yes, I felt a little bad about it, but it was being sold at a garage sale) I slapped some paint on the frames...

...I love how I can make it sound like it took me a few minutes to paint the frames...it actually took me a few days, but the process was still fun.  I also outlined each frame on newspaper and messed around with the design I wanted for a while.  Then I hung everything up and I ended up with this.

 Each of the empty frames has a clip to hang artwork from.  I wish I had a great camera to get an amazing shot of the wall, but you will have to imagine how it actually looks.  I can't wait to get some artwork home from school to start filling up the frames.

I will probably add some design elements to the wall as I find them.  Once I get some curtains my dining room should be decorated...at least decorated enough for me.