Thrift Store Frames with Art Prints

My son's room has a robot theme and he really desperately needs something hanging on his poor walls! I came across this robot abc print and thought I'd seek out a thrift store frame to alter to match his room. I also got an owl abc print to match my daughter's room (and she doesn't need anything else on her walls-but I managed to fit it in somewhere anyway!)

I found these two frames at Helping Hands. The brown one was $2 and the white one was $3.
I popped out the glass & mats & sprayed them...
Watermelon & Cherry Red gloss!
I adhered the robot print to a sheet of navy blue cardstock that I cut down from a 12x12...
Then, to add just a little dimension, I used Zots glue dots to adhere the cardstock to the mat. (The inner area of the mat was too small to let the entire print to show through, so I simply put the print on top of the mat.)
Here is the final product, hung on my son's wall! I love how it turned out...
...And how well it matches his room!
Here is the BEFORE of my daughter's frame. I really scored on this one at $3 because it had this print in it that had been professionally framed and matted with non-glare glass.
After I sprayed it Watermelon, I decided to sand some of the paint off to show the detail of the lines in the frame and to hide of few small chips in the wood.
I adhered the owl print to the pink marbled mat that the frame came with...and hung it on the wall! Super cheap & easy & I love the results!


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Crown Plate

Several months ago, we changed our front guest bathroom from pale green with a palm tree theme (yuk--So sick of that!) to a soft blue with chocolate brown. We still haven't gotten any chocolate brown towels, but we will get there! (we had a baby 7 months ago, I might add) There was also a little wall that had nothing on it that was bothering me, but I couldn't figure out what to hang there.

I finally decided upon 3 of my favorite things: A fleur de lis, a crown, and a cross. I already had the fleur de lis--it had been begging for a home for some time. I am still shopping around for the perfect cross, but in the meantime, I made this little crown plate.

I bought this 6" diameter plate at Hobby Lobby for $3. I had all the rest of the supplies on hand: patterned scrapbook paper, vinyl, Cricut die cut machine, paint, mod podge, & ribbon.



I chose a piece of scrapbook paper & cut out a circle the size of the inner plate. I then made small 1/2" cuts all around the circle so it would lie flat inside the circle & hug the round edge without puckering.


I looked everywhere for my brown Tim Holtz distressing ink, but ended up having to use acrylic paint to add a distressed border around the edge of the paper. It turned out just fine.


I then cut a crown out of vinyl with my Cricut. If you don't have a die cut machine, you could always cut out an image off the computer or use one at your local scrapbook store.
I stuck the vinyl crown to the paper, then mod podged the paper to the plate.
I threaded ribbon through the holes and ended up with a bow at the top.
Here is the little crown plate hanging in its new home! The cross will go to the lower right when I find it. (lighting is making the wall color look weird in this pic)

Here's another view of the bathroom (dying for chocolate brown towels!)
The supplies cost me around $5 total for this project.

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"Rainy Day Lockout" Scrapbook Layout

It's hard to get your scrapbooking groove back once you've put it on the back burner, but I am determined to complete a layout or two each week amongst all my other projects! I quickly dug out some supplies last night and made this 2 page layout. It's not perfect by any means, but it is done.



Unlike most of my scrapbook layouts, this one's main focus is the journaling. It's about the time I got locked out of the house in the pouring rain with my 14 month old son inside! I know--Mother of the Year!


I hopped on the computer to journal the details of this particular story & it feels good to have it documented before I forget it all...or bury it deep in that not-so-happy memory part of my brain!



If you can't read the journaling, don't worry. After being locked out for 35 minutes, my husband came home & unlocked the door. My son was just fine--and I was a bawling mess!



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Thrift Store SCORE!

Last weekend, I visited a local charity thrift store that I've been to several times & enjoyed. Well, this time, I really hit the jackpot! The store was packed full, so they must have just gotten done putting a bunch of "new" stuff out. I got ALL of this--plus the toy Ambulance pictured below--for $28!!



I love how they happen to have the baby girl clothing right next to the toy section so I can shop for clothes for my daughter while my son peruses the toys. Maybe that's how I ended up with 3 dresses, 4 shirts, a pair of capri pants, and a pair of Stride Right shoes (that look new)~each for $1 to $1.50! I found a Fisher Price plush sea horse for $1 that I've almost purchased several times for full price at Walmart. It's belly glows & it makes the softest music ever! I also got a FP Elephant toy that plays music & happens to match a train set we already own.



I found this toy ambulance in a cart of items that had just been priced & ready to put out on the floor. I snatched it up & my son was thrilled. At first I didn't even realize it, but then I noticed that it's Playmobil. If you're not familiar with Playmobil, they make wonderful, detailed (Expensive!) toys. When we got home, I couldn't help but to look up this exact ambulance online to see what it retails for...it's $45! Guess what I paid? Yep, $1! SCORE!




My son has been asking for the game "Operation." While at the check out, an employee wheeled out a cartload of games & I spotted it-the original version that I had as a kid--for $1 of course!

I'm so happy with this lamp! I've been keeping my eye out for a new lamp for my office that I could spray paint & spruce up. Well, I found this solid wood one that will match nicely for $6. I'm almost sad that I don't have to do anything to it to make it pretty. Thinking about distressing it a little, though. I threw in that raw wood open frame for a future project of some sort.
So I know I've been going ON & ON about my amazing finds...but did I lie?!?!! ;) Best trip ever.

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