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Follow my blog with BloglovinSo, you remember a few weeks ago when I discovered this newspaper trick and I made my.

So we applied some adhesive to the stainless steel and some stabilizer pieces and put the first panel together..The GE Iron Grip Adhesive offers up to 75% less clamp time than many other adhesives so it allows you to work much more quickly on projects like this.

We left our project clamped for about 2 or 3 hours and then we had a nice, straight, flat panel!.…or so I thought.Chris always likes to be extra sure so he added in a few shim in the back to hold the stainless steel extra straight..

He was actually able to apply adhesive behind each of those shims and have them hold right onto the surface of the stainless steel, so that really helped give him peace of mind.And here’s another picture of the clamping process.

I always think these pictures make it look like our projects are so fancy and complicated, even though they never are!.

We created another side panel exactly the same way and then brought them together with the front panel so we had a full cover for our vent pipe.. You can see all those shims working their magic back there!I’m hoping that we’ll be able to have Christmas morning breakfast this year in our newly-painted dining room, so this type of family photo tree will be the perfect backdrop..

Even though I didn’t want to make complicated ornaments out of our pictures, I did try my hand at one type of ornament idea that I’ve seen around.I couldn’t resist..

I just basically took a bunch of thumbtacks and stuck them into a foam ball.I’m so fascinated by this little thing!