Pepe wall!

Yay for wall decor! This afternoon Pepe found his proper place in our house. (Remember Pepe the King Prawn? The awesome wall art that Lisa gave me, in honor of Levi's fetal nickname?)

It's my opinion that one's walls are always improved by hand-drawn muppet art. On paper, that is. Not on the wall itself. ...Though that could be cool too, as long as it's on my chalkboard wall and nowhere else, please.

Here he is (again with the grainy & blurry phone pics...unfortunate I know):

In good company with happy blue butterflies (3 for $1 at an estate sale), simple white frame ($1 at garage sale + blue cardstock), and quirky green clock ($2 at garage sale, new in box).

Here's the lazy truth: there were already two nails where Pepe and the clock are, and I was trying to make as little work for myself as possible by reusing them. But then I got them up and, you know, the wall looked so empty - plus I was breaking the design rules that say you should group things in odd numbers, not even. (Not that I really live by the "rules"...but in this case...the rules were right.)

I would never have picked those butterflies out at a store, or even at a garage sale if they were any other color besides that happy royal blue. But I've made a habit of grabbing any fun little room accessories like this (for $2 or less) that fit my family room color scheme and conjure my keyword for this space: WHIMSY. That's my guiding ethos. So I'd grabbed these because they checked off both boxes. (Whomever the lady was at this estate sale house, she had a thing for butterflies because there was a whole collection of butterfly paraphernalia. But these were the only ones that came home with me.

So I had the blue butterflies sitting around and I'd imagined them maybe gracing a gallery wall. But after looking at this little wall space, I thought maybe they'd fill it up nicely and also add a little more whimsy and movement. I'm all about using whatever's close at hand and therefore easy & quick.

Perspective: in our family room, in-between our sectional couch and the  sliding door to the screen porch.

Annabel "helped" me by holding a butterfly in place while I stepped back to see where I thought it should go. She also had plenty of her own opinions which were adorably shared: "I think it should go, umm, a little to the left maybe. Or wait...maybe, like, in the middle?" In the end we both approved. I would have liked to bring them down toward the bottom edge of the window to really fill the wall, but that's within little-kid grabbing range, so it was a definite rule-out. I didn't want to overanalyze it...I'm sure it's not perfect...but I like it.

She insisted on posing with her pointer finger and straw. Quirky wall for a quirky family. 

A view to how the colors coordinate nicely with the rest of the room - turquoisey blue + springy green + white. Plus a view to our very lived-in, very real and not-perfect house.

One little wall hanging at a time...our house is coming together. A little moment like this - a happy, quirky wall with a punch of Harkness inside joke -- well, it just makes me happy.