Showing posts with label fleur de lis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fleur de lis. Show all posts

Friday, January 1, 2010

Dress Up A Plain Picture Frame

I had these picture frames {that hold a 4x6 size picture} hanging around with a couple of old pictures in them. I had taken some new pictures of my kids on Christmas Eve and since I printed out the pictures in 4x6 size, I thought I could re-use these frames. Just simple, plain black frames.

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On one of my many trips to Michaels I had picked up two of these fleur de lis pendants {$2.79 each} from the jewelry section. I did not have any planned project for them, but knew that I could use them somehow, some way.

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In playing around with laying them out, I found you could do a variety of things with them to dress up a frame. You could do four on an angle in each corner, but since I only had two I decided to put them in the middle top of each frame.

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I used pliers to take off the metal ring at the top of each. A little hot glue and they’re done!

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I blocked out my son’s girlfriend’s face in the pictures, not because I don’t like her {I felt like I was doing Sharpie graffiti on her face with the paintbrush tool in Photoshop}, but because she’s not my kid, and I don’t like to put other people’s kids online unless I get permission. She’s a lovely girl and I will enjoy looking at this picture of the two of them.

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The second picture is my daughter, who was being overly dramatic for the camera. I still think she’s beautiful ~ drama or not!

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Just another idea for thinking outside of the box in decorating or crafting. Dress up some plain picture frames with things like these jewelry pendants, or brooches, or even earrings.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Frugal Fleurs

I spent some time with my daughter Wednesday evening at a gluten free cooking demonstration at a bookstore that, happily, was a few doors away from our local Joann's. Without a list and measurement of things, I was really unprepared for a trip into Joann's, but {sigh} I forced myself.

They really had some lovely Christmas decorations out ~ really large ornaments, large pair of bells, bows and more. A bit rich for my blood at $25.00 and up, but it did lead me to a clearance shelf where I found this:





My daughter was quick to point them out to me because she knows I love them. They only had the two and I grabbed one ~ and took about 10 seconds to consider if I should just get both of them. Yeah. I did. I couldn't just leave one behind ~ what if no one bought it.







On clearance at $5.97 each, originally $19.99 each. A real steal as far as I'm concerned! These will be making their way into my living room refresher.

Hooking this find up with Frugalicious Fridays at Finding Fabulous.



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