~new frames made with reclaimed wood~

 If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know by now that I love frames, and I love to make them out of reclaimed wood. 

Sometimes it is hard to find this great old chippy painted wood.

So, when I do find it, I scoop it up and stash it in my workroom.

 Yesterday I got it all out and made several frames.

I am keeping a few, but have taken the rest into Ruffles and Rust Square in Snohomish WA. 

 I love the detail in this particular frame with all the chippy creamy paint 

and the dark wood showing through. 

I made them all with standard size openings.

{4x6, 5x7, & 8x10}

 It's really rare I find a cool colored piece of wood. 

I LOVE this jadeite green color, and mixed with the other colors, it just screams country cottage!

 I like to mix and match these on a wall to form a nice collage grouping.

I especially like them filled with black and whites, or sepia toned photos.

Of course, if all you have is colored photos, one quick trip to the copy center will 

change that for about 10 cents! 

Head on over to Ruffles and Rust soon for the best selection!

Also, just a reminder that there is only a couple more days to take advantage of my 3 month for $50 advertising offer! Email me at:

lakeliving4@msn.com

if you are interested!

Going on now through the end of July!

xoxo

~restoration hardware like wall art, the look for less~

Don't have $450.00 to spend on one of these great pictures?

 Here is how you can get the look for less.

First of all you need a book full of great sketches that suit your liking.

I just picked up a book on Leonardo Da Vinci at the Goodwill outlet for 49 cents and got about 30 pictures out of it. You can also find these on amazon here.

 These are framed in simple barn wood frames you can find at your local craft shop, or if they don't have them, I found a seller on etsy that has a bunch, and they are very inexpensive. 

You can get a matte cut but it will set you back around $10-$15.

If you want to do this project on the cheap, just take your book page/sketch to your local copy center and enlarge it, or shrink it depending on the size of your frame. 

I would do this on a color copier because although they are black and whites, there is a little bit of brown usually and this helps with that "vintage" look.

If you browse the Restoration Hardware site, or go to any of their shops, you will see these types pictures all over the place. 

I was browsing through their catalog today and on almost every page they have these on the walls.

If barn wood is not your thing, you can also scout out thrift shops to find inexpensive antique frames. I like the thin gold frames, and wood ones as well.

So, instead of spending $450.00 per piece, you are looking at more like under $15.00 without a matte, and around $25.00 with a matte.

I'll be back soon to show you what I did with mine!

Happy framing!

Don't forget to enter the giveaway here if you haven't done so already!

xoxo