Chips

Not the kind that are deep fried and packed into noisy bags which sit on the grocery shelves for months(ew)
Also not the kind that are referred to as "french fries" by Americans. (really? french? not that "freedom" was any better...but still?)

Paint chips.

(paint chip boxes. pinterest, how did I ever waste time before you?)

Taking a large stack of paint chips from Lowe's is completely legal; it is also a little bit less socially acceptable. I must say that I felt red in the face and sweaty as I stocked up on literally tens of paint chips last week. I also felt like I was stealing as I stealthily placed them in my bag. I kept trying to tell myself that they are there so that you can take them. Annnnd, who knows, maybe I will use them to help pick out a future paint color. In the future (far far future). But no. I felt awful, I also felt like the paint department people were looking at me like a crazy person.

Speaking of which: that seems to be a common theme lately.

Hm. I'm ok with that.

Back to what I was trying to say. Those paint chips were for a purpose. I think most people who use paint chips for other projects are looking for a way to use up paint chips they already have...I'm special. I didn't have any paint chips, wanted to do a paint chip project, and so did the unacceptable. gasp.

But look at the awesome result:

(clearly only a small percentage of the chips I actually took...woops)

It was so easy (apart from all of the emotional distress), and looks cool! I have to admit that I was particularly lazy about cutting the chips, and so had a lot of not quite square little boxes. If you see (even though it is a particularly poor quality photo) that they are not evenly spaced: SHHHH! I did them in a completely non-technical and non-measured way. I eye-balled it. Apparently I am wonky. Or at least my eyes are?

What do you think?

alina