Shoebox Canvas Twist

In our quest to decorate all the walls, one of the many Pinterest ideas we decided to try was the idea of covering shoebox lids with fabric to make mock canvases.  Since my fabric scrap collection was running a little thin at that point, my only real choice was some more of the old quilting fabric I'd used on my desk drawer lining project.  A lot of the versions of this shoebox project we saw on Pinterest used glue, but we thought, hey, we're using shoeboxes anyway, let's be as lazy about this project as we can.  Therefore, we basically wrapped our shoebox lids like Christmas presents, duct taped them in the back (yes, duct tape), and hung them on nails on the wall.

Here's where the twist comes in.  My quilting fabric didn't really go with the rest of our bright decor.  Especially in our dim hallway, it was just dull.  That's when we had the idea of adding felt shapes.  Right now we have hearts, but we can always change them out!  The felt sticks to the fabric, but if you want, you can pull it right off.  We're thinking about cutting out snowflakes for winter, flowers for spring, clovers for St. Patrick's Day, etc.

The whole movable part is actually something several of our friends have discovered.  They've started a trend of moving one heart each time they come over.  Sometimes we find a heart on its side, sometimes we find one upside down, and depending on how many friends we've had over, sometimes they're all mixed up.  If we had been boring and glued our hearts down, think of all the fun we would have missed....