Lazy Weekend and a crafty DIY

While my weekends would normally revolve around a 20+ mile long run, this weekend did not. Mid-last week, I started feeling quad pain that was similar to a strain. With less than 3 months until my 12 hour race, I knew pushing it would not be smart. I may run long distances and get a lot of crap from people (strangers, even!) about how much I run, but I am really good about listening to my body and not pushing it when I shouldn't. I did a test slow mile on Friday without much pain and 3 miles yesterday with no pain. Going to keep icing it and stretching and hopefully, I can get back up to my normal mileage this week. It does make me nervous that my race is less than 10 weeks and I feel like my training has been a bit wonky. I just have to keep my head up and hope for the best!

Instead of running through Philly for hours on end, I decided to finally work on a DIY I've been planning for the last few weeks. While my lovely friend Liz is the queen of DIY things, unless it involves baking or cooking, I am not patient or talented enough to do a DIY. I did, though, want to push myself to try to do something out of my comfort zone, so I created three picture frame jewelry holders this weekend.

I used the lovely Pinterest as inspiration and found some really cool jewelry organizers that helped me come up with my idea.

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For my organizers, I decided to use picture frames and gold hooks. I went to my local K-Mart and purchased the following items:

• 3 8.5x11 picture frames
• 100 gold hooks (cheaper than buying a smaller amount)
• 3M Wall Stickies

Here is how I assembled them:

1. Use small screwdriver to start holes for hooks.
2. Manually screw in hooks to pre-made holes. I had very cheap frames, so this sometimes damaged the frame a bit, but the hooks still were in there securely. 
3. Apply wall stickies to back of frames, then secure to wall.
4. For the earring and ring frame, I used white crinoline that I already owned and taped it to the back of the frame (didn't have a nail small enough, or I would have done that). I made sure to not have the crinoline go all the way down the frame so I could reach behind it to secure the backs to earrings.

Here is what it looked like while I was assembling them, as well as how they look up on my wall!

The assembling of the hooks. Definitely got frustrated at times with this. 

Finished product on my wall!

I am really happy with how they turned out, especially since I am not crafty in the least. It also is a good way for me to see all of my jewelry in one spot, so I have a feeling I'll be wearing more than I would normally.

Alright, back to normal posting about running and food next time. Hope everyone is having a great March so far!!!