I told you the past couple of To-Do Lists that I was going to hang something on the wall.

I hadn’t just put this off for only two weeks - I bought it a while back and have been putting it off since then…it’s just the last couple of weeks I added it to the To-Do List to make myself a little bit accountable for getting it done.

But once I painted the wall near the workout area downstairs I knew it was time to take action on something I had wanted to get for a while: A wall-hanging medal display.

I am bad at taking ‘before’ pictures - just ‘after’s - but I had rigged myself a little medal display. I took a wooden rod from an old easel the girls had and I laid it across two purse holders I found at The Container Store. I draped the medals over that, and it worked nicely for the first few races.

But I got more medals and the medals became heavier and it was time to do something different.

There are fancy, expensive medal displays and the more I looked at them the less I felt like making a decision that would cost me a lot of money.

So I found this nice, reasonably-priced (comparatively speaking) display on Amazon and just decided to go for it.

It came immediately, and I put it aside for a while because I always get a little shy about drilling holes in the wall - especially walls that I nicely painted recently.

But on Monday night I was listening to the Mets game (I don’t get them on TV when they play the Red Sox) and it felt like the timing was right.

I had carefully measured where I wanted the piece to go on the wall…I measured a couple of more times to make sure, then I brought out the level to make sure everything looked straight. It didn’t to me, but the level said it was straight, so I trusted the level, because I’m no good at eyeballing stuff like that.

I drilled into the wall to insert anchors and the drill didn’t go deep enough - turns out, I guess, that I measured out exactly where the stud was. (I’m not the greatest stud-finder in the world, but once I found it I knew what to do.) Instead of using the wall anchors I just screwed the screws into the wall - they were nice and secure.

Then it was easy to hang the wooden piece.

I think I can get a little more arty with the medal display - the ribbons they hang on are just as nice and if I drape them differently over the pegs that can show them off a little more.

I have a lot of space to work with for now, so I can play around with that.

But my favorite thing about this is thinking about the other medals that are coming that I can add to the display.