Photo Display...

So I'm training and studying  to become a teacher. One of my favourite parts of when I'm doing work experience in schools is them always getting me to create the children's artwork displays, and that's what inspired me for this.

A very simple photo display, inspired by a school display.

My desk backs onto the side of my wardrobe. I use to have a pin board on it, but pin boards get so messy and I just clutter them with useless scraps of paper. The pin board was also the first thing you would look at as you walk in the room, so it's not exactly pleasant.

This is also a great idea for a dorm room if you are not allowed to put things on the wall. Once you remove the wallpaper, the pva glue washes straight off. Or you could line your pin board with the wallpaper and open up your stapler like a gun and staple your pictures to the board in a cleaner, fancier way than messy push pins.

As you can see, I lined the side of my wardrobe with leftover wallpaper from when I was decorating last year. You don't need wallpaper paste, just mix some pva glue with water and you're good to go.

(if you haven't got any left over wallpaper, measure your wardrobe and head down to B&Q or somewhere similar, and take a sample piece of wallpaper long enough to fit. shhhh).

Select your best photos. I chose a mixture of my friends, family, memorable days and motivational sayings (as it is right next to my desk!). Print them in various sizes, but try to keep them regular. Most of mine are square as I got them off my Instagram, and square photos are easy to organize. 

Find some coloured paper that matches the theme of your room. You could choose various colours or stick to one complimentary colour like I have here, and stick your photos to the card, then using a guillotine cutter, trim with a nice boarder with clean straight lines. (You could use scissors, but make sure your straight line cutting skills are up to scratch!!).

Next, simply Blu Tack them up!

It's so simple. Yet it looks super organised and aesthetically pleasing.

What do you think?

Becky xo