Office Projects....

The administrator's office here is a "lovely" room with tall, concrete, gray-splatter painted walls, frosted windows, rusty filing cabinets, a big wooden desk and tile floor.   I think it's just cold and uninviting, so I told Keith that I was on a mission to help it out a bit. :) 

We have a great thrift store here in Jalapa that has things that I think are Goodwill throw-outs, but I have found some great things there, including several "darling" 16x20 canvases such as this one for about $1 or less.

I'm sure your face resembles Keith's face when I brought this treasure home and exclaimed, "Look at the canvas I found!"  His facial expression did not match my enthusiasm, but that's okay. :)  

I did some very elementary editing to some pictures I took.....meaning I added words to a picture. :) 

 On this picture, I used the blemish brush and took out the power lines and then added the verse.

Next, I'll paint the edges of the canvas black. 

Run down to the little photo shop on the corner and ask the kind man to print me out two 16x20's.

Then run back home and modpodge the whole canvas.  

Finally, I'll put my picture on top of the modpodged canvas and then modpodge the whole thing again, creating a perfectly lovely, canvased print for Keith's office.  

Would you like to see the finished product when it's done?   I have done several of these before and love how they turn out.  It adds so much character to the room, I think. :) 

From This to That

I love re-using things!  I love shopping at thrift stores and finding things that I know I can use, or make something "new" out of it.

So about a week, or so before I went to Misty's she had told me about this song that she had heard and really liked.  That got my mind rolling.......

First I found this at a thrift store for a couple of dollars:

(Lovely, but completely out of my taste for hanging on my wall)

I bought a can of spray paint and a little bottle of black paint and got to work! I left the picture just as it was and painted right over the glass and frame. :)

The end result!

Don't look too close because it's certainly not perfect....

The first few coats went on beautifully smooth and looked wonderful!  Then I went to put the last coat on and it must have been too cold, or something because the paint kind of froze, making it crack all over (the paint cracked, not the glass).  But I think it made it look even better that way.
 

 (This was before I had the letters painted in.)

So I carted it off to my sisters and now she can worry about finding a place to put it. :)   It really was so fun to do (if you like to paint), you should try it sometime - and let me know what you made. :)