Ikea frame make over

I love how these turned out! I used some ikea frames that I got at a garage sale. I painted them with Rust O leum Caribbean sands spray paint. They feel sandy. :) the paint didn't work quite the way I planned but that's okay. The people at Rust oleum were great to work with.
Anyway, I glued seashells, stones from the dollar store, and "kitchen twine" round them and added some vacay pix from SanDiego. Simple Sunday afternoon project!

from this to that! :-)  (of course since my phone put the pix in backwards - I guess its more like "this FROM that" :-)

working on the beach

This morning I got up with the birds, which is unusual for me on Mondays. I had laundry on the line by 7am. :)  I wanted to get a head start on the laundry room. I am seeing An end in sight and have been having a great time decorating with stuff I had in the house already.
this wreath was given to me by a friend who said "I thought you could do something with it" That was quite a while ago. I was planning to do something for fall with it, but  I really like it now!

I am also adding a better picture of the ocean sign from yesterday.

Fence me in

I saw this fence on Pinterest and decided that it needed to go in my laundry room. However, we seem to have a shortage of drift wood around here in farm country. so I found some "value" wood for 2.00 and looked up how to age it. Seems easy enough... just vinegar, water and a steel wool pad soaked overnight. Then painted on the wood.
I dipped the end in the solution and it is already greying. If you look closely you can see the difference. Check back later for the results.