Gallery Wall

This past week I finally managed to finish our Lego minifigure display and get it hung on the wall. That means that the photo gallery wall that I started working on more than a year ago is technically done. I say technically because we still have space for one more item but everything that I planned originally is up there.

The whole thing has been sitting at this point since my husband's birthday barbeque last year.

First of all I finally moved the photo collage into its frame and put that up.  When I originally started the wall I ordered the collage along with some the prints I used from our wedding photos. But when I went to pick them up they couldn't find the collage print anywhere and gave us a refund. Then the next week I started getting phone calls asking when I was coming in to pick up my order. By that time the rest of wall was already done and the picture hanging tools put away so the picture got tucked away somewhere and we ended up with an out of sight out of mind scenario. Not exactly because we saw the empty wall space but you know what I mean. Then yesterday afternoon I glued a picture hanger on the final Lego display and added that. Here's a shot of the entire area now.

The top left is a collage of pictures of our cats. Well all of our cats at the time. Obviously this didn't include Curry because he literally didn't exist yet. It includes my favorite picture of Caramel ever.

The center top is a shadow box with our wedding cake topper in it. Our wedding was in the fall and we make a cake topper that mimicked our invitations by twisting a leaf garland into a wreath and adding small faux chickadees. I actually have a scrap of fabric from the bridesmaid dresses that I intended to use as the backing in the shadow box but it is missing in action at the moment. Whenever it turns up I'll replace the paper so it has a more finished permanent look.

Top right is a family portrait for my husband's side of the family. Below that is a signed poster we got at free comic book day last year.

The bottom center is a floating frame filled with pictures from our wedding as well as one of our invitations.

Then in the bottom left is the finished Lego display. You can check it out here where I updated the original posts. As for that leftover space in the top row, we have a few ideas. One is to frame the portrait of Emmet that came with our special edition of the Lego Movie. Another is to put up a small shelf to hold some kind of figure or maybe our Lego Lex Luthor in Power Armor. However we're open to suggestions... Any great ideas out there?