Getting It All Ready

I’m sure I’m doing this backwards from the way most people would show off a room redo, but I want to show you a couple of things I did before going in and finishing the decorating of my granddaughter’s room.  I promise, that post is coming!  I wanted to use clip-on rings for the drapery and I couldn’t find the off white or ivory color that I wanted to go with the rod. So I bought these silver ones at Target when I was there one day.

I had Heirloom White spray paint already and that was basically the color I wanted anyway.  So I took a wire hanger {one of the good times you can use them} and clipped the rings onto the hanger.

I hung this hanger from a bent up hanger in my garage to give them a quick spray.  With no additional cost, and maybe a half hour total to spray 14 clip-on rings, I got the color I wanted.

The second item I worked on was this blue frame I got at the Christmas Tree Shop on clearance.  It had no glass and this is how I got it for $.78.

The price stickers had been put on the front of the wood frame.  {Why, oh why, do they do that??}.

It has some paint chipped in parts, too.  I sanded and used WD-40 to get the label glue off.  Then I looked to see if I had any blue craft paint close to this color.  I also found an old frame I wasn’t using to take the piece of glass from.

I just painted the very front of the frame where I really wanted the coverage and left the lighter blue of the original color on the beveled edges.  With it’s little bit of distressing, I think it looks pretty good.

I added a picture of my granddaughter from when we did our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party last year {I can’t believe it’s almost a year ago!}.  This frame is now good to go!

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