Meow That's A Fun Frame Find

One night a neighbor friend was browsing his building's message board and saw that someone was leaving a bunch of picture frames outside their door, for free, obviously.  He scampered over and grabbed a whole box, following the scavenger-hoarder mantra of 'take it now, figure it out later.' Approve.  After taking what he wanted he offered the box of associated small frames to me, and I managed to find a group of frames the same style, all around 8x10 to 8x12.  Yay for third-hand picking! It felt positively luxurious to lay out the frames on the floor and look at them all instead of grabbing a box and scurrying off into the night.

Here is a snapshot of the 'before', very basic black wooden frames, at least 20 years old.

Basic frames sitting on cardboard

I have a different friend who wanted to add some art to his walls for the bargain price of next-to-nothing, and was into the idea of painting some free frames with gold paint. Below is one of the frames after the first coat, not very encouraging, but I knew that it takes a few coats of gold to really build up the shine.

In process, don't judge it yet.

Here is the final product, with a picture of the beloved cat printed out at a local drugstore.

Kitty says Meow!

Now we just have to finish painting the rest of the frames, find and print some more suitable artwork (probably more cat pictures), and arrange a custom gallery wall. Stay tuned.

Happy freestyling!