A is for Anti-Slip Throw Rugs

Hello, April! Hello, A to Z Challenge!

I entertained the idea of doing a Pinterest-based theme for the A to Z Challenge fairly early on and took some notes to that effect, writing the letters of the alphabet down the left side of a page in a spiral notebook and jotting down ideas from my own Pinterest boards next to each one. For someone who doesn't do a lot of planning, I was off to a pretty spectacular start!

(Something to be noted about doing 26 Pinterest challenges in a month is that writing down some ideas is not sufficient. Pinterest projects require things like ingredients and craft supplies and what are probably a number of very difficult-to-find items.)

'Twas the night before the first post is due, and I pick up my handy dandy notebook (shout out to Steve) to see what I had noted for "A" aaaaaand...

Nothing. I filled in ideas for about 16 letters, but "A" wasn't one of them.

I frantically started going through my Pinterest boards, looking for something that I have all the supplies for AND starts with the letter "A" AND isn't too hard, because, well, I'm lazy. Fortunately, I found something. It's even a DIY project that I have been thinking about doing for ages. 

Here's the Pinterest pin:

http://inthiscrazylife-bethany.blogspot.com/2012/02/tips-and-tricks-part-2.html

My house is big. And old. And has no carpeting in it. No. Carpeting. The floors are hardwood, except for the kitchen, entry hall and bathrooms. We have large area rugs on the floors, as well as runners in the entry hall and upstairs hall (which runs nearly the length of the house and is used by the cats for bowling, or at least, that's what it sounds like from downstairs). Area rugs on hardwood floors skid unless you put down a non-skid pad underneath the rug. The problem with THAT is the pads creep out from under the rugs, especially ones that are well-traveled by humans and cats, such as the one in the entry hall.

See? The padding is trying to make a getaway.

Look! I found a dime!

I didn't have the kind of caulk that uses a caulk gun;
I only had the squeezy kind. 

This kind of hurt my hands.

All done! Time to dry!

I let it dry overnight. As an aside, my husband plowed right across it in the dark early this morning, even though I left a path between the doors to the family room and the downstairs bathroom. 

The results:

Pinterest fail.

Now I get to spend the rest of the day picking silicone latex caulk off the back of my rug.....