Today's Creation - Art for my walls

Over at Totally Tutorials today is a link to a tutorial for fabric covered canvas frames.  Now I've done this before - Logans room has four miniature canvases covered in different fake fur skins and my office has two fabric covered, ribbon wrapped, canvas notice boards.  But today I was upstairs searching for one of my ten declutter items when I stumbled across two wooden framed, glass fronted picture frames I'd bought from an op shop probably about two or three years ago when I was stuffing photos into every frame I could find.  It must have been at the end of my obsession because they never got used and were still bubble wrapped as I'd found them.  Having seen the tute I thought it might be a good idea for one of our bare walls in the lounge so I hunted down some suitable fabric and was thrilled when I found a piece that not only covered the two frames but also had heaps left for whatever I was going to use it for - I love this fabric and am sure to find something else to do with it - I got that too from an op shop although more recently than the frames.

So I set to work, used half a container of craft glue (Sullivans is the absolute BEST craft glue EVER - I've even glued the bottoms of Zoe's shoes back on and they stay put!!!), left the glass in and cut some card to put behind it (there were no wood or card backings to the glass.  Tried to use staples but ended up just using the stapler to push in flat head drawing pins which I had to hunt down (a few of Zoes paintings will be flapping in the wind for a while).  Screwed in the picture eyelets and tied on the strings - all of which were included with the frames - along with picture hooks for the wall.  And this is what I have.

I scrubbed the wall hard out before I hung them but there were a few marks I couldn't budge - one wonderful black arc in particular from where the speaker had slid over sideways - a result of children hiding behind the chair - no-one was injured in the process fortunately.  However the wall looked terrible so I've just patched up the marks with white acrylic *cringe* - it's a rental, and a falling down rental at that - our landlady came round to inspect it before we moved in, looked around pencil and fault sheet in hand, sighed, put away the pencil and fault sheet and said "Let's face it - you couldn't make it much worse than it already is." *grin*.  (BTW those acrylic spots showed up in the photo - thank goodness for Photoshop *wink*).

So I'm happy with the frames but not as ecstatic as I was before hanging them - they'll do for the time being and they only really cost me half a bottle of glue - I know I paid for the rest but the glue is the only stuff I'll have to replace.