Right Under My Nose!

Not far from the back of my mind has been the rolled canvas I had gotten from Uprinting.com {with the French writing on it}.

I had been looking around before we moved to see what I could put it on and had no luck finding anything premade.  While deciding that my large wall mirrors probably aren’t going to work out, I thought of it again.  My eyes fell on this piece of artwork that I had purchased at Home Goods when I was staging my home for sale. 

Not something I’d normally get for myself, but it worked with the bedding in the guest room I was fixing up.  Guess what?  It’s the perfect size for the canvas and I had it in the thrift store pile.   Thankfully, I gave it a second look.

I painted out the print {three coats of brown craft paint} and cut out the white space around the graphic.  I used a heavy duty spray adhesive to adhere the canvas to it.  My fingers are crossed that it holds.  I don’t use spray adhesive often enough to trust it, but it says “heavy duty”, so we’ll see.

It is just the right size for the “dining” area where it will reside over my painted chest.   This needs a little more going on around it, but that will come with time.  I’ll be looking for stuff!

I need to get some kind of liquor in that decanter and I just placed some of my Halloween brews and potions on this chest.  Not sure if that lamp will stay there.  I had that on my entry foyer chest in the old house, but it’s providing some much needed lighting at night right now.

I’m so happy that worked out.  And it was right under my nose the whole time!

Kathy