Anotha Frame...

Here is my latest Value Village frame re-do. I think it was well worth the $1.99!Before

After, complete with an adorable Emily Martin print. Can it get any cuter than a girl having a tea party with a hedgehog? Methinks not!

Makeovers!

A few months back I made over an old frame and never got around to posting the pics. I saw this tutorial via U Create and decided to make the rose push pins and show you my frame turned into corkboard!

It started off as a yellow framed print (I actually kinda like the yellow in hindsight...oh well...it was pretty dinged up) and I ripped the paper off the back, un-bent a bunch of nails and popped out the print. I used the print as a template and traced it onto some cork that I had bought a roll of. I had to do this twice because I found just one layer of cork was a little thin. Using Aleene's Platinum Bond, I glued the cork to the print (which was on some sort of pressed cardboard stuff). The frame was sanded and spray painted purple, the corked popped in and...voila! New corkboard for me! Yesterday I made the paper rose tacks...now I just have to hang this sucka up and add some inspiration!

Here's an upclose shot of a paper rose tack. I think you can see the hot glue but oh well...it still turned out super cute:)

We also started operation make our balcony feel like a garden. We are by no means done but it is certainly better than the barren slab of concrete it was the day before.

The BF purchased a park bench and we put that together on Sunday. Later that day he also went out and got us a little bird bath. I thought that it might be a little weird on a balcony...but bein' the cat lovin' man that he is BF will do anything to attract more birds to our balcony to entertain our fur babies Dexy and Miso. Yesterday we headed to Home Depot and got some clay pots, flowers, herbs, and a tomato plant. I am excited to see if I can not kill everything! Just getting things transfered into their new homes I managed to chip the edge off one of the pots....such a clumsy girl am I!

Notice the purple spray paint on the balcony floor from spray painting the above cork board...I got in a little trouble for that one!

I've also added little solar lights to the flower pots but don't have pics of those. I can't wait to add to our little garden and make our back balcony (we have two, the front one is going to be the bbq/dining balcony)a little summer retreat.

I also bought the BF a neat little bird watching book he had been eyeing up. It's cool because it shows the pictures of the birds and gives information about them AND it plays the birds call! Neat-o!

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

I finally after many months got this mirror on a wall. I thought I had a before picture of it but apparently I don't. It started off as a brown frame with gold accents. It had a lovely 70's print of a vase of flowers in it. I like it much better as a mirror. As you can see I am out of Windex...I am going to polish it up a bit later so it isn't sooooooo smudgey. BF thinks the frame should be a different color. He doesn't like the white on white. If you look in the background you can see that most of the kitchen is white as well. I don't mind it white. I think some of the detail may be lost if it is another color...but maybe not. Also, I have done another frame in bright red (it's almost done...I will post a pic soon) so I don't want it to be coloured frame overkill. Thoughts anyone? Also, if anyone knows about framing I'd love to hear some thoughts on framing colour and black and white photos...Can they go together in the same grouping of photos? Should I maintain a unified colour scheme?

Prime Time

I am starting a few new projects this weekend. The first one is an old dresser that my mom donated to me a few years ago when I was a poor student (now I am a poor teacher) and I have been meaning to get around to freshening it up for quite sometime now. I am thinking of making it lilac-y purple or a light turquoise colour...I'll see how I feel after it is all primed.

I also got two frames from Value Village yesterday. I have primed them white, they may stay that way or I may be adventurous and do a bright colour. I re-did a frame a few months back that had a very similar floral print to the larger frame. They must have been all the rage in the 60's. I also have decide what to put in them. I ordered a print from the Black Apple Etsy shop and the smaller frame may be perfect for it! I am sooooooo excited for it to get here!