My most recent favorite projects for people are shadowboxes. Pictures are always great gifts and a shadowbox gives you depth and the option to add items to the box. These two I did for a friend for fathers day.
Dried flowers are a favorite of mine, and it seems like roses always start to droop before they open. When my coworkers get flowers they have a tendency to throw them away before they've opened because they start to droop. I hang them upside down and allow them to dry, and when I have enough collected I will bunch them together and tie them with a ribbon. This particular bunch was collected over months of just getting one or two at a time. I had another set that I pulled from a floral arrangement from a friends' mothers' funeral, and when they dried, I added those roses to a shadowbox with her photo and funeral announcement. This set I have lying on a shelf just to be decorative.
Finally a few pieces of yard sale furniture refinished to suit my purposes. This first is a 4 legged stool that I picked up for a dollar and distressed in white with some burgundy to match my laundry area and it supports a big basket of silk flowers.
This was a horrible glossy black and wicker cabinet with brass knobs that I picked up for two dollars. I used a chocolate paint over the black and as it dried pulled the brown off in spots using toweling to let some black show through. I left the wicker alone and used a metallic spray paint to recolor the knobs.
This last was a 1970's light green pressboard dresser that was given to me. I painted it originally in sage green and used pictures cut from Victorian Trading Catalog to decoupage the drawers. When I changed my room I repainted the dresser in white, pulling some off as it dried to let the sage green show at the edges and corners to look worn, and I painted a light coat of white paint over the pictures to cause them to fade but still be visible. I plan to replace the the existing knobs with old fashioned clear glass knobs.
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