Creative Dawn

Another frame!  Yeah!  This one was going to be used for another purpose, but when I tried to take the back off, I broke the glass.  It could have been easily replaced, but instead I decided to embellish it and use the frame itself as the art piece.  I have a few containers with bits of this and that so I just started gluing things on.  There are buttons, screws, puzzles pieces, beads and other stuff just randomly attached to the frame.  It was kind of fun to just keep adding.  The idea came from a Nate Berkus Show when they cleaned out a junk drawer and made art out of it.  On the show they painted the entire thing in one color, but this frame looks cool with all of the colors in it.  It has personality.  This would be a fun project to get the kids involved in too.  They could use bits of broken toys, crayons, game tokens, the possibilities are endless.  Hope this gives you a bit of inspiration today!

  The project for today came from a few places.  In my youth, I remember going to a friend's house and her Grandmother showed me a Christmas decoration that she had made, it was in a small frame.  It was red velvet fabric and old jewelry and was in the shape of a Christmas tree.  Then, a month or so ago I was watching the Nate Berkus Show.  He has great ideas and is from Minnesota like me!  He was showing what to do with things that you think are trash or not useful.  Kind of like the things I do in my blog.  So anyways, he had old jewelry and frames.  Here is where the light bulb went off in my head.  I had purchased a painted canvas at the Goodwill for a few dollars and was going to paint on it, but the canvas was torn.  I ended up removing the canvas and using the frame.  I stapled on some muslin and topped it off with an old shear embroidered curtain.  Then dug through all of my jewelry and buttons and started to deco...