Inspiration board

Ok, admittedly, this project wasn't easy, nor was it quick. But the results are pretty nice.

Here's the details:
Empty frame. Mine is about 18" by 24" and of course, not a standard picture size, making it a bit of a challenge with fitting the rest of the ingredients inside.
3/8" Foam board for the back.
Foam rectangles. The ones you find in the kids craft aisle.
5/16 inch thick roll of cork. There's different thicknesses so make sure you get the thickest one you can.
Burlap cut to the size of the frame.
Spray adhesive.
E6000 glue. This is probably my new favorite glue if I could have a favorite. E6000 is pretty forgiving to work with, yet incredibly sticky.



I began making a sandwich with the pieces starting with the foam board, then the foam squares, the cork and finally, the burlap, spraying adhesive on each layer to get the sandwich to stick together. You might find the edges of the cork lift so I used E6000 along the edges to make sure they stayed stuck down.


Now, trim the sandwich to fit the frame. If you're a stellar measurer you won't have to go back and trim the edges to stuff the sandwichinto the frame like I did. (How many times did I say, "sandwich".) Squeeze a bead of E6000 around the inner edge of the frame then place the sandwich in the frame. I slipped the jute string under the edge of the frame and dabbed a litle glue to hold.



For fun, I clipped vintage photos on the string. One is of my grandfather before he married my grandmother circa 1918. He was enjoying a little homemade cellar wine with a friend who apparently had just purchased the motorcycle that's depicted in the lower photo with a child sitting on it.

Hope you enjoyed my recent posts. This is my final project for the weekend. Well, maybe not. I've got one more I'm not quite finished with but it has to do with these old Hallmark plaques.



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Location:New jersey

What to do with all those vintage afghans!

I actually had some time this weekend to work on some things I've had sitting around waiting to be worked on. This is one of them.

I purchased this red, white and blue afghan at Salvation Army in Cambridge, MD months ago. (It is currently closed because of a fire. Thank goodness noone was hurt.) They've always have tons of vintage afghans and, I kept saying, some day, I'm going to do something with one. They always reminded me of the 70's and that's why I got the idea of the poncho.


This one was easy because of the grannie square style. I removed one of the middle squares and zigzg stitched around the hole to keep the yarn from ravelling. Then I hadn't quite figured out how I was going to fix the neck hole. Thanks to my mother for the great suggestion to crochet around the hole, I added a few single crochet rounds, shrinking it a bit every row and changed up the color once. I was able to finish it in a couple of hours.

This thing just oozes 70's flamboyant patriot! Haha!

Tee

Location:New jersey

Wall collage

Sometimes just hanging some yard sale junk makes a blank wall look a little better.







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Location:New Jersey

Refrigerator message deposit box.

You can pick these little tobacco tins at flea markets, yard sales and undoubtedly, thrift stores. Old Scrabble games are often readily available, too. I purchased super strong and tiny neodymium magnets online.

Glue the magnets onto the backs of the scrabble pieces. I roughed up the backs a little bit with some sandpaper and used E6000 glue to glue on the magnets. Since the tin is magnetic, I just stacked a few magets together and placed them on my refrigerator and stuck the tin to the magnets.

Add a few scrabble letter magnets inside the tin and you've got a tiny message board for the kitchen.








Tee

Location:New Jersey

New stuff at pier 57

There's a new place in town and check out these mini booths! They're repurposed shipping containers. And a mini-bus for shops and food.







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Location:Manhattan

Vintage bottle bouquets.

I came in to a ton of old bottles recently. (Some seem to have a few decades in the Chesapeake.). Of course, I had to use them in a cut flower display. The greens are from my enormous rosemary bush and from some weeds Mike has been cultivating which he now calls "Little Tees", after me. Hmmmmm.




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