This is the weekend to honor junk over at Funky Junk Interiors and I am a well-known junker in my part of the world. In fact, one of my best friends confessed to grabbing a table out of her neighbors garbage and said it was my fault! Yikes, what an influence I have on my peeps!
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All in all, this project only cost me $10 for the chalkboard paint. |
This project started with the frame you see below. When we were clearing out my hubby's grandmas house, I quickly grabbed up this find. It was not much to speak of (wish I had pictures) but once I pulled out the print and gave it a paint treatment it was great in my dining room. Originally there were 2 similar types of frames/print although not a match. I gave them the same paint treatment (the dining room wall color as a base coat with a white crackle finish over the top) and hung both together as empty frames. G R E A T conversation piece. Nobody could understand why I would just hang a couple of empty frames but everybody liked it!
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| This is the frame. It has been painted and spray painted and crackled to end up like this. |
That's been several years ago and they have gone through many transitions since then. One is no longer as the frame broke and was unrepairable. Alas, the lone frame is now a victim of one final update as seen below.
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| This is a scrap piece of plywood that has been used for a school project by my youngest son, cut and now reused as the background board for the frame. |
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| Added some lovely chalkboard paint. Did have to go out and buy another can. Had a can for a few years just waiting for a project and couldn't find it...argh! |
Some of my other fun junk projects for 2011 were:
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| For the Birds--Repurposing a birdhouse for the garden. |
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| Birthing New Chairs -- How I rescued Craig's List chairs |
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