so i saw the above photo and knew i had to do this! we had just gotten a new couch and needed something new above it.
i went to goodwill and bought 5 frames. i didn't care about the color just wanted them to be different sizes. i think all together the frames were under $8. then i went to hobby lobby. i had one vase i wanted to use. so i only needed 4. luckily all the glassware was 50% off. i love hobby lobby and their 50% off stuff. i'm a sucker for sales! so the 4 vases were right under $10.
once i got home i sanded all of the frames and painted them gray. i had to do a few coats on some and others only needed one. just depends on the look you are going for. once they were all dry i started playing around with the vases. some of the frames were a bit too small for the vases. :[ at first i wanted them to have lots of space in the frame. like this one.
but some of the vases ended up sitting on the bottom of the frames.
but i ended up really liking how that looked too. so i didn't worry too much about it. the only other thing i needed to do was hang them on the frame. i used jute. i simply looped the jute to the top of the frame and then tied it around the bottle neck a few times and then made a bow. very easy.
then i hung them up! i thought about pouring water in the vases and using real flowers but i wasnt sure how i would change the water and it seemed too difficult. i wanted simple. so i made flowers. i will post the tutorial later this week on the flowers. but i used pages from a book to make the petals. glued 5 of them together and that was it!
sorry for the weird angles. i can not get a good front facing picture due to a wall in the way. i'm using a very cheap camera and that is why the pictures are not the best. one day hopefully i will have a good camera.
xoxo
1 comment:
I am pretty sure that the first picture is from Bev's blog, Flamingo Toes. :)
Yours turned out so well... love it!
Post a Comment