You can see the 'ugly people' I was talking about above }
For our wedding, I wanted to be as crafty as I could to really personalize our special day (and save money). I started shopping early on (well, not that early considering we planned our wedding in five months) and would hit up various thrift stores, at least weekly in my hunt for picture frames. Once I had a good variety, I grabbed some metallic silver spray paint from the local hardware store, and went to work. The finished product looked so great at the wedding. We displayed our engagement shoot photos in the frames, which we had kept a secret from everyone until that day.
{ displayed at our wedding }
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I bought these frames from the thrift store not too long ago and planned to use them at our wedding. However, since they didn't posess a glass pane, I decided to use them for something to use as decor in our home. You should have seen these frames when I bought them - so ugly. They were brownish-gold with the worst picture inside (one was of a woman in the old days, very chubby and ugly and the other a chubby man clutching a shotgun), which I quickly spray painted over. Once they were dry, I found some fabric and got busy.
The accent colour in our home on the main level is orange, so I used this orange fabric
I used the picture and cut the orange fabric to a square slightly larger...
...then hot glued the fabric to the square
Once glued, it looks like this on the back...
...and like this on the front
Nice, but it's missing something...
...so I grabbed this gauzy fabric I had to wrap the orange fabric
Voila!
I have recently developped a small obsession with burlap. It's textured, it's cheap and it's oh-so-trendy right now for home decor. After seeing multiple DIY projects involving burlap, I hit the fabric store and got myself some for my own DIY.
This is so simple, so quick, and so awesome. All you need is a hot glue gun, a frame, a small piece of burlap (to fit your frame) and some sort of embellishment (a coin, ribbon, a bead, a button, etc. Be creative!).
{ burlap, $4/metre }
{ thrifted frame, $3 }
{ I pulled this 'coin' off an old candle }
Cut burlap into size of frame's window (mine is 3x3)
Using your hot glue gun...
... Attach your embelishment to the burlap
Insert burlap square into frame
Voila!
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