I also found this burlap bag of speckled eggs. Hmmm. So, I bought both because I saw that this nest could, indeed, be saved.
The first thing I did was rip out the fake plants. It’s looking better already!
I took some of the speckled eggs and put them in the nest. I then took a black and white wired ribbon I had and, using the point of my scissors, started pushing it in to the grapevine of the nest leaving some loops. The ribbon can be easily removed if I want to replace it with another or add something completely different.
Redone, it sits on top of a Goodwill urn that I had spray painted black {that urn held a white feather boa tree for Christmas} and that was just waiting for something to prop up! I think it needs a little moss, which I’ll have to pick up on my next trip to Michaels.
Not to keep you in suspense any longer than I have to, I have the winner of the Ashley Brooke Design Giveaway of the 10 Valentine’s Day cards.
The Winner is:
True Random Number Generator Result: 26
Congratulations Ms. Bake-it! Please email me with your mailing address and I’ll send it right on to Ashley.
I’m joining in on The Mantel Party hosted by Beth at The Stories of A to Z today. I wanted to do a post on my great room mantle, but it is such a difficult area to get pictures of that I just deleted them {and the post} and started fresh.
Unfortunately, you get to see the same mantle again, except that I changed something. I got the clock I bought on clearance from JC Penney out of its box in the garage and put it up in place of the canvas piece I had up there. That canvas piece couldn’t stay there anyway ~ I have other plans for it, so I needed something. I almost forgot I had gotten that clock!
Same mantle but with a different centerpiece! I kind of like the way the worn look of the clock works against the brick.
I participated in the Mantle Party at The Stories of A to Z on Friday. Beth is so good at decorating her mantle! If you haven’t yet, you should stop by some Friday and check out everyone’s mantles. My mantle included a picture of an art canvas that I made. I was going to share it later on in a different post{and it will be back}, but thought I’d talk about how I made it now.
Over the Summer, I purchased three blank canvases from Michaels with the thought of doing something in my master bedroom in lieu of a headboard. I realized this wouldn’t work as I like to read in bed and I kept thinking that unless I really mounted these things to the wall, they would keep falling off. That idea went in the scrap heap {and I’m still looking for that perfect headboard}.
Meanwhile, I still had these three canvases. Just sitting there. Waiting for some creative and wonderful project to come along. And then I saw it. I read a blog post by Stef at Frugal Home Ideas blog.
Picture of Stef’s wall art.
I was in love! Ballard-y looking wall art with a scrolly design that I loved using canvases I already had. Perfect! Here is a picture of something similar to what Ballard Design carries. It’s obviously different, but the idea is there.
Photo from Ballard Designs
Well, I couldn’t believe how she did it! The next thing you know, I’m ordering my own doormat from Target. My canvases were a bit wider than Stef’s so I did pretty much the whole pattern of the doormat, where she had taped off the sides of hers.
Here is one of the canvases painted. This was actually a black paint but it appears brown.
Once they were dry, I then moved outside with my painters tape, white spray paint and my doormat. {Remember this was over the Summer so I wasn’t dealing with the cold weather yet}.
You lay the mat over the canvas, tape off any area you don’t want to show up on the canvas and then just do a spray over it. I really only went over it once, making sure I moved not too quick and not too slow.
So that’s how I came to make my own wall art. I have three of these panels. I’ll end here, but this project will be back again.
