Decoupage Life

We have a lot of routines during the work week--our weekends, however, not so much. I sort of feel like sometimes my weekends are where I come undone, let loose, or go crazy. It's a time where I let myself be more spontaneous and outgoing--a place where my weekly (crazy) OCD regarding the upkeep of the house meets my more relaxed side in a battle of identity confusion.

It is weekends like these (which are more often occurring than not) that I find my life becomes a decoupage of some sort. Side note: I JUST learned about decoupaging from the reality show 'Flea Market Flip' with Lara Spencer.

As cited in Wikipedia, "Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and so on. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the "stuck on" appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work. The traditional technique used 30 to 40 layers of varnish which were then sanded to a polished finish."

This weekend, our art piece blank canvas started with a fire on Friday night--we bundled both boys up and sat outside for a couple hours admiring the starlit sky and the beaming moon. We enjoyed quick but friendly conversations with passers-by and conversations of our own about the future and what it holds for our family. Life was simple that night and very peaceful--especially once Jack and Will fell asleep!

  Saturday was lots of fun--we started out at the Children's Museum for a birthday party celebration. Jack and Will both had a blast as you can tell from the pictures.

 

We then ended Saturday with some housework and a movie. Sunday was an extremely lazy day but we managed to go for a walk and head to the playground for a bit. I was a bit grumpy as the afternoon hit so I decided to snooze with Will during his afternoon nap...it was GREAT! We then took a quick trip to Bangor to Bullmoose Music to pick up the Superman movie--it's Jonathan's new favorite superhero--he's on a rotating schedule between Batman, Spiderman, and Superman. ...and YES, he did wear the shirt two days in a row :)

A pretty low-key, average weekend but this is the decoupage that makes our family who we are and I love EVERY SINGLE BIT OF IT!!