Vintage photo display {upcycle diy project} Newbie party started!

This is just a simple,Vintage photo/earring display that I came up with.
Don't ask me, how or why this came into my head one day.  

Perhaps because a lampshade fell on my head while opening a closet!

Yes, I have a few spare lampshades around that were just dying for something.  No the stencil you see in the back ground is not for a lampshade, I will show you later what I did with that.

So I tore this lampshade apart, and was left a small frame of it.

You know how much I love vintage, and my dear ole gramps too who is no longer with us...

He sure is in spirit though, and every day I feel that. 

Anyhow....

I thought why not display some of my earrings and photos on it...

it was easy to poke a tiny pin hole in the picture and loop my earring through the hole and 

hang it on the end of the shade guts...I don't know what else to call it.

Stick a little glass votive candle, and I have the perfect one of a kind vintage photo/earring display.

I have been just playing with my camera settings.  I am seriously bummed about Picnik closing down.
I have found a few other options, but they are not as USER friendly.

Like my cute chalk board too?  I just added Love...

It did have our initials and date married on here.

Fun to change it up though.

Just a simple little, free sentimental idea here!
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{Vintage} Goodwill mirror....{Newbie party started}

You just never know what you can score at the goodwill! 

This mirror was a great find for me.  My first makeover was fun and I have had it in several places.  Since doing our bedroom dresser vignette over with new warmer displays, I decided Mr. Mirror, mirror needed a new makeover.!

This was the first Makeover and you may view details

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Here it hung for a while last Fall/Winter...
Our bedroom has had a complete makeover since then too. I will show you some updates soon.

And today here is the new makeover...

It now is a romantic chalk board. I have the world's worst handwriting, so I actually used stencils and shaded the numbers and letters on.

A romantic vignette...

{Dried} roses Mike has given me.

I also toned down the color with a  bit of ASCP Duck egg blue I had left over some time ago.

Another easy, inexpensive way to spruce up and old mirror.

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Succulents are all the rage!

It has been quite apparent in my life that I am NO gardener.  

I do well with certain things year after year and that is what I stick with. 

You all know about my recent Cilantro kill, which btw I replaced the pot with a succulent.( I have to erase cilantro and chalk in succ)!

Speaking of succulents, they seem to be all the rage lately.  

I have seen a succulent wreath, succulent pots and just some random succulent shots in blogland.  

With the school year coming to an end shortly, I was thinking on what to get as teacher gifts.

I thought I would get a little crafty along with a nice gift card and some strawberry bread mix that I bought at our local peach stand.

Started with some simple cheapo clay pots.

I hand painted them with craft chalk board paint. Then I put each teachers initials on them, added the twine and a little scrap book embellishment.

Nothing too fancy, however thrifty, yet cute.  Put in a pretty bag, with a gift card and the strawberry cake mix, and there you have something personal for a special teacher.

Teachers deserve all the recognition and appreciation we can give them.  

Jack has had a great year because of them.

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