Forget Not Word Art

I've been working on a lot of projects lately: making pillows, painting canvas, hanging curtains, building bookcases and tv stands, sewing and hemming clothing, etc. etc. It's been really fun to work on these things and piece by piece putting "Karianne touches" throughout my space in my apartment.

This picture is of the hallway that goes from my living area into my bathroom. (Sorry for the bad shot...I just took that using the computer cam while holding my laptop and trying to frame the wall...)

 

This picture shows the beginning of yet another project. When I thought about what I'd put on that wall, I decided I wanted to do something really personal and that I could show some creativity on and create a dramatic type of wall focus. I wanted to use my design skills to create some word art and other type of artwork that I'd love. I decided I'd want to do some smaller items that I could hang with ribbon from magnet strips and feature some bigger artwork below.

This is kinda what I envisioned: 

 So I hung the first parts as you can see and began looking for inspiration for my artwork. However, as General Conference grew closer, I decided that it would be really cool to do word art from the conference talks. This way I could pull out the messages that meant the most to me and display them in a prominent hallway throughout the year. Then I'd have the opportunity to create new things when the next General Conference rolls around. 

I loved the idea.

So last night after the Relief Society broadcast, I got to create a piece focused on Pres. Uchtdorf's amazing talk, "Forget Not."

 

And that's my first piece folks. I'll be doing more next week throughout the conference...although I'm a little worried I'll want to do more than I have room to display on that wall.