:: Found on Pinterest - mason jar "frames"

A few months back, I'd pinned this

Source: rikkihibbert.co.za via Amy on Pinterest

We do have a ton of photos and a ton of mason jars.

So I thought I'd try it in our family room.
We have a few shelves that have been very sparse lately.
So this will do for now.
Probably won't stay like this forever, but we'll see.
Much cheaper than frames {that I don't have the money for}.

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Empty frames.

I have a confession to make.

I am TERRIBLE about printing photos.

I take hundreds and hundreds of photos each month

and rarely print the darn things.

I also have a frame addiction.

Love them.

Find amazing ones at thrift stores

{not these ones though}

and they end up sitting

around our place with no photos.

I've decided that needs to change.

One of my daughter's friends was at our house,

wandered into our bedroom and saw the frames on

our night stands with a generic picture of a girl in it.

She asked me if that was my other child.

Nope.

I'm just lazy.

And I guess I really like pictures of other people inside my home.

{or that's what everyone thinks}

So, I knew that I finally needed to print a few

of Ava and Reese.

So, I printed them.

A big pat on my back.

And printed a few more to put in their room.

Poor Reese has been sleeping in a room full

of pictures of her big sister as a baby.

That's gotta change.

I'm not the only one that does this, right?

Thrift Store/Home Decor Obsession: empty frames

So, how do you feel about empty frames?

{easy living magazine/country living}

{apartment therapy}

{lund photo/mimi charmante}

I absolutely love them!

I had this same idea when I found some frames at the thrift store. I don't think I payed more than $3 for each of them.

1. I first painted them white. (the hubby is getting a little sick of everything being white, I think)

2. I then measured them and layed them out on the floor to see how I liked them.

3. With either newspaper, wrapping paper, or with whatever you have on hand, trace the frames and cut them out. Make sure once you cut them, you place the paper on the back of the frame to figure out where the nail hole is and once you do, with your pen, just poke a hole.


4. Then tape them to your wall. (using a level and the correct measurements of the wall)


5. You're almost done. Since you already know where the nails are going, nail them through the paper and then you can rip the paper down. Just have to hang the frames now.

I do plan on eventually putting up pictures in them (but not the exact size of the frame). And maybe a bench underneath it. This wall has been bare for way too long!

Some other ideas: (found on apartmenttherapy.com)

•Use an empty frame to highlight a mantelpiece display.
•Elevate a photo tacked to wall by surrounding it with a larger, empty frame.
•Use a cluster of empty frames to draw attention to a wallpapered area.
•A tall, leaning frame can bring height to a low furniture arrangement.
•Use empty frames to offset sculptural objects on the wall.
•Paint frames to bring color to an arrangement.
•String wire between the edges of an empty frame to hang jewelry or other objects.

Thrift Store / Home Decor Obsession: frames

Come back tomorrow to see what I ended up doing with these frames I found at the thrift store. It's really easy and looks very classy and modern (well, I think so anyway).

Spray Paint Obsession: framed chalkboard

So I've been working on this project for quite some time. Just needed to buy and cut ply board . . . so that's why it took forever. Anyway, I walked into my favorite thrift store in vegas, months ago, and saw this frame on the top shelf. I asked how much it was and the guy said $5. I'll take it! Although it was a beautiful painting (they had painted this picture on the glass - - is there a name for that type of art?) I just wanted that frame. Imagine that.

And what was I going to do with it? Well, I wanted to make it into a chalkboard for my daughter to put in the livingroom. I know. I know. I have an obsession with chalkboard spraypaint. I had the perfect spot for it though.

So . . . I removed the glass painting (still have it - - not sure what to do with it),

spray painted the frame white with a few coats,

bought ply board and cut to size of glass,

spraypainted with chalkboard spraypaint with at least 2 coats,

placed the ply board in the frame and placed nails around it so it would stay in.

And there you have it. A fancy, little chalkboard for my daughter to color on that's hidden behind the couch . . . so she'll stop coloring on our hdtv (no joke).

Have you ever used chalkboard spraypaint?

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You're So Crafty Monday, Market Yourself Monday, Making the World Cuter Monday, Just Something I Whipped Up, Made by You Mondays, Metamorphosis Monday, Made it Monday, The DIY Project Parade, It's so very Creative

Home Decor Obsession: frame within a frame

I love the idea of a frame within a frame (very sorry - don't know to who I should credit this photo - I'd saved it awhile ago when I didn't keep track).

I decided to do my own version of a frame within a frame. We have a large wall in our living room that needed some spicing up. We had a few picture frames, but it was just blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I have a friend that did something similar to this, to one of her photos and it looks very classy.

I found this cool frame at a thrift store for about $3. The color theme of our living room is tan with white and turqoise accents. I thought this would be perfect. So I taped the turqoise trim off and then spray painted away (first using a few coats of spray paint prime and then a few coats of white spray paint).

And here is the after picture:

Have you done anything cool with a frame, lately?