Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Smart Tips Tuesday

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I started a ‘little bit’ of a remodel on my back porch, recently. I did this cross stitch several years ago and it has been on my back porch, ever since. Today, I decided it needed a new look.blog 009 Where else would I start…..spray paint, of course! I masked off the blog 012glass, too lazy to take it apart, and gave her a few light coats of black. How about that? Now on to the real fun. Since I live on an old farm, I went out to the ‘back forty’ (it’s really thirteen), and grabbed some old rusty wire fencing.blog 006 I then cut the fencing piece so that some of the edges showed outside the frame, sorta’ like a double frame look.blog 007Now I have the basic form and then, all I did was take a pair of pliers and bend the rest of the wire, ‘this way and that way’. How’s that for professional decorator speak? I then, turned it over and put some weight on it and used my craft glue gun to glue the metal fencing to the wood frame, in several spots.blog 015 I like the black frame a lot more.blog 018blog 020 So now I must move on to the other items on the porch…..next is the light fixture and the coat hanger.

6 comments:

  1. You are too clever girl!

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  2. Well aren't you the clever one. It did come out nice. I like black frames too. Really makes the picture stand out. Sooo it looks real nice where you hung it up.
    Nancy Jo

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  3. soooo cute!!!! Just just had nothing else to do? Looks great!

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  4. The black really makes the beauty of the cross stitch stand out, and great idea using the wire.... A beautiful finished picture!

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  5. hahaha! nothing is safe from you when you have a can of spray paint in your hands! lol!

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