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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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