Picture this Trick.....

Sometimes

 you have a picture that needs

to be bigger or have more substance

on the wall you want to put it on....

Hence,

We have this story of this 

little itty-bitty picture

that mother had to have....

It was super tiny on such a big wall...

so, we improvised!

Mom found this frame that filled the bill of

Big & Chunky....

We measured the opening and then  

we called our dear 

friend and faux finish master Jill 

and she painted this lovely rectangle on the wall:

After it dried we hung that picture right up....

and then the frame....

Making the picture the

PERFECT

size for the wall....

and most important

Making Mother 

HAPPY.

You know the saying....

"if momma ain't happy........"

yep.


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Creative Time!

Last weekend we worked on a quick project for mom.

She had a picture frame (that's been sitting empty for a year!)

She was going to put the grandkid's school pictures in them....

ohhhhh no, we could do much better than that mom!

(hence, this is why the frame was empty for a YEAR!)

The hardest part...

taking silhouette pictures of the kids - ha!

Tracing their pictures and cutting it out of the black cardstock - easy!

Taping them inside of the frame - easy!

We didn't even need the easy button for this project!

An adorable frame, with distinctive silhouettes of the grandkids....

Wiping off the fingerprints...ahhh, yes...that's better

A project that makes a mom smile

A Work of Art...or A Piece of Work!

No one loves me
They hardly know I'm here

What's a dog to do?

Two weeks ago I contacted our fellow blogger Donna

of Mourning Dove Cottage

From the first time we found her blog, we were smitten with her dog portraits

So...I sent her a picture of Calamity

and had her paint a picture of her...

See Calamity, we do love you!

Thank you Donna for making this "piece of work" a work of art!

{To see more of Donna's art...visit her here!}