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Open Sauce

Feb 18, 2011 09:31

Happy Friday everyone! Happy with your thrift find, proud of a paint job, want to show off pictures of your new saucy sofa? Inspired by something you saw or just want to leave a show-me-your... request?

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Show Me Your... eicnan February 18 2011, 16:37:45 UTC

How you display your children's artwork

Was thinking an ornate frame with corkboard as a possiblity. On the fridge seems boring.

And since I'm here, random stuff:

Just ordered this for my dining room. Yay!

Re: Show Me Your... bearscanfly February 18 2011, 17:51:53 UTC

Love the chandelier.

I don't have kids, but I've had this photo saved in my inspiration folder for one day in the future:

Baking sheets, spray painted nice colors + magnets = cheap, easily changeable frames!

Re: Show Me Your... iudmama February 18 2011, 18:19:47 UTC

Cute idea - I'll have to keep it in mind! Just last night, the hubby and I were talking about looking for easy change frames for kid art...

Re: Show Me Your... eicnan February 18 2011, 19:18:07 UTC

What a great idea. Thanks!

Re: Show Me Your... fire_sister February 19 2011, 05:36:28 UTC

This is brilliant!

Now just to find the best place to hang them in my house!

Re: Show Me Your... paloma79 February 20 2011, 05:07:53 UTC

Nice! Did you have to do anything to prime the metal for the paint?

Re: Show Me Your... bearscanfly February 20 2011, 22:13:38 UTC

This is just a picture I found somewhere on the internet (maybe even here? I don't remember!), so
i can't answer for sure, but I know they do make spray paint specifically meant for metal. I imagine that would probably work best. I also would probably try to buy baking sheets that weren't non-stick...just in case it made a difference. ;)

Re: Show Me Your... missmarmalade February 27 2011, 16:36:46 UTC

I wonder how they mounted these to the wall?

Re: Show Me Your... bearscanfly February 27 2011, 21:23:39 UTC

Interesting point. Y'know, I think some 3M adhesive strips would work just fine. I'm currently using them to hang up much heavier things in my apartment. I imagine those baking sheets are pretty light, and they don't have lots of heavy things hanging off them. That'd probably be what I'd use.

Re: Show Me Your... wordbox March 13 2011, 23:57:39 UTC

I love this idea! Thanks for posting it.

Re: Show Me Your... bearscanfly March 14 2011, 01:29:57 UTC

Glad you found it helpful! :]

Re: Show Me Your... littlehayzay February 20 2011, 20:44:03 UTC

I don't have a photo of this (or kids, for that matter), but I doodle a lot and so what I do is scan each piece (or take a good quality digital photo) and compile them into a sort of brady bunch 3x3 set, so it turns 9 pieces of art into one, saves space, etc.

I also recommend taking a digital photo of each piece and then making a photo album on the computer - saves space, declutters, AND you can back them up. Because let's be honest, as much as you love your kids art, you don't need to keep it all forever. (I say this as an adult whose mum has just tried to pawn off all my old drawings on me and I did the scan, photograph, and toss anything that wasn't great or memorable).

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