Project Finished...Perspective Changed

This project is 2 years in the making!

I made this before Drake was even born- just a quick, easy, cheap wall decoration.

I bought a canvas at Michaels and hot glued ribbon to the back to hang it on. Then Rob & I painted our hands and stamped our hand-prints. Yep....it was THAT easy!

It's hung in Drake's nursery with just the green and blue hand-print since that time.

The plan was to stamp Drake's hand-print when he was born, but we never did.

Could we have procrastinated any longer? 2 years?! Wow, Linds! A new record!

When I was dusting Drake's room last night, I took it down and said, "Enough! Let's do this already!"

And we finally did Drake's hand-print and finished it!

What do you think?

Now...if you know me, what do you think I thought of the finished product?

If you are guessing that I was stressed out and disappointed with it, you are right!

His hand-print is too high and should be down lower and a tilted a bit to the left. Drake moved his fingers so it got all smeared too! Eek!

I really was a bit stressed out about it at first!

Then, I hung it up and realized that I really like its imperfection. I really, truly do.

It makes me think about Drake and his crazy personality and how he can't hold his hand still for 2 seconds. And it makes me think about my husband who is carefree and easy-going and just pushed Drake's hand down and didn't worry about how close to the top it was.

I really love it. And I really like how my perspective has changed since having a child!

I'm still an insane perfectionist, but it's calmed down a bit.

And that's a glimpse into my super freaky personality.....:)