September 1
More Things To Frame
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Wednesday’s “Try This” post featured the idea of framing pretty things you find at thrift stores. I put some old doilies in a frame.
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Imagine how delighted I was when the last page in the latest edition of HGTV Magazine posed this question to favorite HGTV personalities, “What’s something you pop in a frame besides a photo?” Here are their answers:
1. Vintage pins on a velvet background.
2. The paper from the first time a child writes their name. Â
3. Initials. For instance…thin metal letter stencils or vintage military-style letter stencils.
4. Paint chips.
5. Menus.
6. Butterfly shapes cut from maps, then hot-glued in the center so the wings stick up.
Some great ideas for displaying special items that tend to hide away in a box or cupboard.
Daily Inspiration
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.Â
Antonio Porchia
I think those are some great ideas, and I’m not surprised that HGTV was thinking like you!
I only have 4 framed photos in the house. All the rest are something else, mostly prints and illustrations. Vintage pins and doilies are a marvellous idea. I have some old small wood carvings I’d love to frame up but the cost was too prohibitive!
I love 2 and 3!
Nola
Thank you so much for your kind words about my beautiful Song. I had typed the wrong date on my blog and she was actually 9. She would have been 10 in February. Still too young to be taken.
I am still so sad and will be for a long time, but I have some good news to lighten my heart. I’ll share it on my blog soon.
There are some good suggestions there. The paint chips could be interesting.
Lynne x