Wednesday's Workout AND possibly my favorite project so far

Wednesday's Workout

(found on Pinterest)

PROJECT:

The other night we gathered a bunch of our frames that we wanted to paint white for various rooms.

Many of the frames were purchased at a thrift store for 1 dollar a piece.

We spray painted them white...

 The above picture is deceiving because in actuality, Dusty did most of the painting.

I went to Target to buy some mats for our frames...it turns out they don't sell them.  So I decided to buy card stock and thought we could use colorful backgrounds for the photos instead of white mats.

We are actually really happy with how it turned out.

We chose three pictures that I have taken that we both like - oh, and there is a coupon at Target online right now for 20 free 4 x 6 prints, so this project was super cheap.

FINISHED PRODUCT:

We plan on getting a white shelf for the living room and placing these three photos on it - I love how they turned out!

I'm really happy we ended up going with the card stock - it's fun and adds more color.

While in South Dakota for Dusty's Dad's funeral, Dusty got to be a "picker" and go through his Dad's things to see if there was anything sentimental he wanted to bring home.

Every tape player they turned on in his Dad's garages had a Johnny Cash cassette tape inside.

Dusty brought one along for our drive home, but it ended up not working.

I thought of the idea to put it in a shadow box, so it could still serve as a memory of his Dad.

Dusty spray painted the shadowbox, I put gray card stock for the background and then used some extra green patterned paper to add a little more dimension.

FINISHED PRODUCT:

I ♥ shadow boxes - they have so much potential.