The color of our living room is Terracotta, which is a very bold color and it seems like a person who would use a bold color in their interior painting like this... would know exactly where they were "going" with that.
Well, I didn't. I just love the Fall and love Fall colors and Dustin loved it too so that's what we did. Sometimes it takes a while for me to "get a vision" for how I want something to look. (Thank goodness I'm not an interior decorator..."this is a nice room, nice space, I will come back in about four years when I have a vision of what it should look like...lol!"
So finally, I had my vision. I needed a frame. A large frame. The largest, decent quality, cheapest frame I could find...
and here it is. $2.00 from my favorite antique store, seriously, I love this place!
You can't tell, but the frame is wood and in great shape.
The picture really liked being in there, nailed, stapled, glued, yikes! So I got out "some tools" and started making a lot of noise with the tools ;) my sweet husband felt sorry for me and took over...yay!
I was trying to decide if I wanted to use the glass with the frame or not...D broke the frame...decision made, lol!
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| Empty Frame |
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| Spray Painted Brown |
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| Spray Painted Picture Mats and then cut them down using a straight edge :) The inside is 8x10 but the outside was too large to work for my idea! |
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| Painting over with green after drying. |
Now the part that I forgot to take pictures of. After Sadie painted the green, we used the palm sander to smooth out and blend the colors a little. I glued burlap to the original cardboard with spray adhesive and let it dry. I already had the burlap from a previously failed project. Burlap curtains...adorable...smelling like a barn and having your dog roll in the burlap...weird! The curtain idea was nixed and I was left with 10 yards of burlap I had been hiding. Believe it or not, having 10 yards of burlap seems a little extreme to some people...hmm :) Then I glued the picture mats on three sides (I want to have the option of replacing the pictures. Christmas pics at Christmas time, Halloween pics in the Fall...loving this idea..seriously!)
Next I found pictures of the girls at about the same age. Aubree is a little older here but I couldn't resist...the hat is the same color as the burlap!
The wall is no longer completely empty :)
