getn crafty

My mother in law recently had a HUGE yard sale. 

She went through her parents shop and cellar and gathered up wonderful treasures that had been hidden for years.
Well, this weekend  I combed through the leftovers and was ecstatic to see this frame still there:

Why no one bought this is beyond me!

Don't you see its potential? 

No?

Yes? 

Maybe?

(please excuse the terrible photos.. it was late when I took these and all I had was the horrible kitchen and bathroom lighting to work with.)

Originally this window frame had a screen and it was grungy (as in bird poop-a-rama. eww), so I took a razor blade, cut it out and gave the frame a good scrub down.

 

After cleaning and cleaning and cleaning it I got out my supplies:

Jute:

 

Carpenter nails:

(originally they bright sliver and since I wanted a more worn look I painted them black then dabbed some of the paint off with a Q-tip)

A kitchen cabinet door knob from Home Depot:

and some elbow grease....sorry no photo for that.

So I took all those goodies and made this bad boy:

How neat is that?

The great part is that the original paint goes with my rug in the living room.

 SCORE!

So this is what I had in the space before:

 

 boring.

and after:

slightly less boring.

I don't have all the photos to put in it just yet, but I will be adding lots of B&W ones once I get them ordered. I also bought some small clothes pins that I'm going to use in place of the huge honkers I have in this photo.

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