18 July 2012

Not so bare walls

Getting down to the decorating lately :) I think I have read enough blogs and seen enough tutorials to give me a lifetime's worth of crafts to do! Despite my love for Pinterest, it really has gotten out of hand, hahah.

Anyways, finally convinced the hubs that it was definitely TIME to hang some more pictures around the house. A couple of weeks after we moved in I desperately hung a few (and had to have him redo them so they weren't so horribly crooked, of course) - and since then the walls have been left untouched. Yikes. Now that I've finally decided on my color scheme/theme/overall look for the house (more about that later), it's time to start the dirty work!

Although I haven't spray painted some of the old frames yet (going from black to white to give them more of a 'clean' look), I went ahead and hung them on the walls to at least get a feel for how some of it might look. Most of them are still empty or have a placeholder picture in them, waiting for the final word! Haha.

Here are two white frames from the collage wall I'm planning on the wall by our dining room table - both with watercolors that I painted last week (original ideas from Etsy). Ay yi yi, I really need to mat these...

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  1. Wish you lived here so we could craft and paint together! Seems we have both caught the bug!! :) Miss you!

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  2. You painted that? Wow!! Greats place toat is Jerry's artarmama. It's down okeechobee I think just east of congress. 7.50 a cut mat plus the matting. I just did 12 pictures myself. Painted the frames white also. Thrift store finds. :) I'll post a picture on fb. Did not paint them though...

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  3. You painted those?? Wow. If you want custom cheap matting, Jerry's artarmama on okeechobee. 7.50 per cut mat plus the mat itself. They do it right in front of you. I just cut 12 for a project in doing in my dining room. Also painted frames white, thrift store finds. But the artwork is someone else's.. :)

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    1. That's funny, I thought the first one disappeared because I had to set up an account!

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    2. Thanks Lisa! :) ooo I'll have to check out Jerry's, JoAnn's had such a sad selection of mats the other day. Post a picture, I would love to see yours!! I am always looking for inspiration, and your house is so pretty! :)

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