This is a craft that brings my love of clearance shopping together with my love of shadowboxes. I decided I needed one more piece of art for the bathroom and wanted to girl it up a bit with some butterflies. I found the shadowbox itself on the clearance rack at Target for $3.24, a deal I […]
Turn a vintage snapshot into wall art
This is another piece of artwork I made for my vintage-inspired bathroom. I understand if you have to avert your eyes. That little nakey booty breaks all records on cuteness. I took a vintage snapshot I bought on eBay and enlarged it to an 8″x10″. This is one of my favorite tricks for creating a one-of-a-kind piece […]
Vintage advertisement-inspired paintings
This was a blank, boring and kind of ugly wall in the kitchen. Not a lot going on here and what was going on wasn’t good – draping wires and old nail holes. I moved the phone, but I needed some large artwork to cover the large metal phone jack. Cheap large artwork, of course. Time to go shopping […]
Birth announcement poster
I’ve been meaning to create a “birth announcement” type poster for Elise for quite a while, and thought I’d better get it done before her first birthday. I did the layout in InDesign, then I sent it off to get printed on photo paper. Now she’ll not only know her birthday, but also the day and […]
How to camouflage doorbell speaker
I’m gearing up to give the hallway a makeover – new paint, new carpet, new artwork. (All of these tasks are part of my 101 list too.) Our doorbell speaker is on one wall, and it’s kind of an eyesore. I wanted to cover it, but it still needs to “breathe” because we still need to hear the doorbell. […]