Nancy Drew and the Case of the Mural in our Library

This spring one of my goals was to finally give some attention to our library upstairs. We've always really wanted a library space where we could sit and read together, but we've just never quite gotten it all the way together for one reason or another.

My first project in this room was to create a mural. We deliberated long and hard over what to paint and finally settled on an image from The Spider Sapphire Mystery from the Nancy Drew series.

It's always been one of my favorite images from the series and we've both gotten really into collecting and reading the books over the years. Here's the blank wall we started with.

First, we borrowed a projector from Eddy's workplace over the Thanksgiving holidays, which seems to be a tradition for us!

Then I set up in our library for a few weeks with tons of gold metallic paint.

The metallic nature of the paint means that it's difficult to get a great picture of the final result, but it also means that as the light changes throughout the day and as you change your position in the room, the image changes as well.

It's sort of like a mystery.

A Spider Sapphire Mystery.

Here's an hypnotic gif of what it looked like as it went up.

Hypers! (As George Fayne would say)