So this is me...
jumping on the washi tape bandwagon.
Actually it's more like me swiping away the fumes as I run up to grab the bumper.
I really don't know how I missed the whole sticky tape craze. I must have been boycotting Pintrest for some reason...
Anyway, the minute I pulled my head out of the sand and saw the colorful patterned glory, I knew I couldn't live another week without it.
I immediately set forth and bought my first roll.
Then went out and bought a few more.
Don't judge, they were forty percent off.
But then I had a new problem...
taper's block.
Yes, I held a modern marvel of adhesive genius in my hand and had no idea what to do with it...
until this...
The fact that my seven year old is a pirate seven out of ten days a week really made this idea a no-brainer. He has this big wooden bed with drawers and trundle beneath that I've wanted to turn into a ship for him for a while now... but hanging bars and sails like canopies above it seemed a bit daunting to my inner procrastinator. However tape... you see... even I can stick tape to the wall.
I looked at some coloring pages to get the idea of basic shapes and layouts. Then drew out my plan on a notebook and free-hand cut and taped it all on the wall. The sails I made from another modern marvel of adhesive - contact paper.
And for a flag I printed out a free graphic that I found on the web, cut it a little wavy, curved it,
and taped it up in mid flight.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. And the whole project took me less than an hour with about four dollars of tape and some left over contact paper I had on hand.
The wheel was given to my husband when he was a young sea-dog. We are considering mounting it to the wall on a plaque that will allow it to spin... but you know that takes a little more motivation than tape.
Oh, and when the little man decides to hang up his cutlass... The whole thing will lift cleanly off the wall with no fuss.
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