This wall has seen a lot of action lately. For a long time I had this chest of drawers against the shiplap wallpaper wall.

Then the dresser went upstairs to the guest bedroom and the area remained void of anything except a colorful gel Merry Christmas under the clock. (You know the kind of gel I am talking about. Those sticky rubbery letter thingees that are supposed to go on windows or mirrors.)

These gel window thingees lasted about two weeks before I changed up the area again by removing the clock from the large metal hook, replaced it with this NOEL stained glass sign and shared the reveal of the upcycled dresser……

…and then soon after replaced the stained glass with a drop cloth wreath.

So, where am I going with this you might be wondering?

That sign and the wreath are strategically placed because underneath the sign, I have this nightmare.

When I removed the gel letters, they had stained my wallpaper!

I almost cried.

Not water, a magic eraser or Soft Scrub would get that off of my wallpaper. 🙁

I wanted to put the clock back onto the hook and the NOEL stained glass back on the window, so I needed some kind of  “something” to cover my nightmare.

I have a stack of old milking barn shiplap that is naturally distressed with white paint sitting in the garage that Nikki and I bought when we went to an estate sale this summer.

Lucky for me Wade was out in the garage cutting up some other things I needed, so I asked if he would cut off two 20″ sections of shiplap for me.

From there I traced the “merry” wood sign I bought from Target onto the board and with a gold paint pen, filled in the lines.

Putting the clock back on the oversized hook and tapping a nail into the wall to hang the sign, no one would ever guess the nightmare that lurks underneath.

Has this every happened to anyone? Anyone?

Did you get the stain off the paper?

My only saving grace is that I like change… this wallpaper probably wouldn’t have lasted until Spring anyway. 🙂

~Wendy