Mimicking Mandi

I am sure you all know Mandi from Vintage Revivals.

She is pretty much the bees knees.

I mean, she's even been on TV.

Okay, so she made this SUPER awesome rug.

Yep!!!

Well, I wanted to create a rug of my own following 
some of her directions. 

Area rugs are just RIDICULOUSLY costly, 
so I thought this was a great way to save.

I had my eye out on these bathroom rugs 
that were in the Target clearance section.

I watched the price drop and drop 
until I found it to be acceptable.

Then, I snatched all the rugs that they had up;

of course I laid them all together in the middle 
of a Target aisle first to make sure my idea looked good.

I came home with 8 bathroom rugs.

This was a price totaling under $20, 
which would have originally been the price of just two.

Yippee!!!

The only other supplies that I now needed were 
scissors to cut the tags and carpet tape.

I bought this carpet tape at Home Depot.

I laid out my design again.

Then I switched a couple around for uniformity.

For some reason one rug just had way more blue than white.

There is absolutely nothing that I can do about it though.

Once my layout was set, I flipped all of the rugs over

and began to tape.

It took a total of two packages of tape 
in order to complete the project (really one 1/4 packages).

Here is the final result as it now sits in my front living area. 

In some ways it's a Monet

(gorgeous from afar and a mess up close).

Up close you can clearly see the seams.
Actually,
 that one row of seams is even ridiculously 
apparent in these photos,

but for $30 total cost I really cannot complain.