Spice up an old bulletin board

Props to Libbie Grove Design for having such an awesome craft/interior decorating blog! That is where this craft comes from. While cleaning out my closet, which had become the place my parents threw stuff while I was in college, I found an old bulletin board I had in middle school. It was getting a little torn up but was still usable. Remembering that I had just looked at the Libbie Grove Design blog which has a post about refurbing this very type of thing, I decided to try it. Original how-to here.

It's a fun and fairly simple project. Finding the right fabric and tacks took less time than putting it all together. Here's my result (still tweaking the lace):

Brown matches my room, pink and blue are easy-to-match accents, lace because

I'm girly like that, and bulletin board because of grad school this fall.

It's not hung up yet because I'm not sure where my tools are packed (still not done unpacking, I'm missing about half of my sewing stuff too). When I do put it up, it'll be right over my desk to add a little color to my room. :)