A neighbor was kind enough to leave some items out at the end of their driveway in a box marked FREE.
I love this. Such a fun thing to find on a walk around the neighborhood.
Inside the box, among a few other items were these three frames, two were for 5x7-inch images and one frame was for an 8x10-inch image.
I thought these were perfect candidates for a shiny gold makeover. A few coats of acrylic paint later and they were ready to go. A few days after I found the frames serendipity led me to some discarded nature magazines from the 1970s and 1980s. It was fun to take a few minutes to page through these retro publications and find some potential images to use in these makeover frames. I found a variety of landscapes, flowers, and even a powerful close-up of Niagara Falls and a wide-scale shot of part of the Grand Canyon.
After trimming the magazine pages down to size everything was ready for framing!
Top left: Grand Canyon; Bottom left: Niagara Falls; Right side: botanical illustration |