Easy Silver Frame and Wall Art Project

About a month ago, I was given a very pitiful and broken large gold picture frame that was about to get thrown away. This came in great timing since I was on the lookout for larger picture frames, but wasn't having very much luck, because either I couldn't find them or they were too expensive.

I could see this sad frame had a lot of potential, so I took it home, nailed it back together, and slapped on a few coats of my favorite metallic silver paint. I had several ideas about what should go in this frame, I thought about doing a mirror to hang over my dresser, but never got around to purchasing a mirror that fit, and even thought about hanging my flat screen inside the frame, which is still an option for later on down the road. I eventually got antsy and painted a very small canvas with flowers and it floated inside the frame for a while. But today I got a little tired of the tiny canvas and the large frame idea, so I decided to take an old piece of junk art that I purchased from the Salvation Army and wrap it with the paintable wallpaper that I used on my dresser project.  After I wrapped the wallpaper, I painted some of the small raised design accents with the metallic silver paint.  Since I already had all of my materials, it only took me about one and a half hours to complete. 

I'm still not sure if this is the final product as far as the frame goes, but I definitely like the results for now and will probably keep this one around for a while.  Enjoy!

Sad gold frame $0.oo

Shiny silver frame!

Junk art $3.oo

Leftover paintable wallpaper

DecoArt Dazzling Metallics silver paint

Finished product!

Just Posted on Etsy: Bernadotte China Cups and Saucers

Today I posted two beautiful and very rare Bernadotte china teacups and saucers on Etsy!  They are both hand painted and in excellent condition.

Floral Pattern on Etsy

Rose Pattern on Etsy

Fantastic Find of the Week!

Yesterday I took a trip into Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the Meeker Flea Market for a little treasure hunting.  The space was great, it was a huge 2 story warehouse filled with tons of antiques.  I saw a lot of really awesome furniture and odd nick nacks, some things I thought were priced a little high for a flea, but I still had a great time looking around.

Ever since I started my bedroom make-over at the beginning of the year, I've wanted to do a DIY chandelier for my room.  I've looked everywhere for the perfect base but just haven't had any luck.  So yesterday my main mission was to find a base for a chandelier.  I was in the flea for not even 20 minutes when I saw the little beauty.  The old rusted five arm candelabra was sitting all by its lonesome on a table near the back of the room and just screamed potential!  With tax I only paid $15.24, what a steal!

So now that the hard part of finding the perfect base is over, now I'm onto other important questions like what color to paint it?  Silver or white?  What shape crystals do I want to use?  Where do I hang it?  Decisions...decisions...