Thursday 29 April 2010

Home Is Where The Heart Is.



After buying this shrine like frame I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. Eventually I painted guesso all over , spritzed glimmer mist here and there, sanded, painted then crackle glazed it. Well that was the frame done but what to put inside?

For some while I have had in my head an idea of grouping a few handcrafted bits and bobs together on my recently decorated hall wall, the one that should of been duck egg blue but looks more pale blue (bah those paint charts). So I created a 'Home Is Where The Heart Is' design using my scrapbooking supplies. I wanted a shabby chic/sampler look and think the ribbon flower helped to achieve this.

Now the only problem is trying to hang it up on our rock hard walls! Hubby did try to bang in a picture nail but they just bend and then fall out so off to buy some special hard wall hooks, not pretty...but functional.

14 comments:

  1. Great frame it will look lovely in your hall when you can get it up :) That flower is gorgeous.

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  2. Those ribbon flowers are yummy. Good luck with the new hooks :)

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  3. Well, I think it's stunning. Shame your walls don't appear to agree! ;) Glar you defeated them in the end, pretty hooks or not, it deserves wall space.

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  4. That's gorgeous Alana it will look fab on your hall wall - even if it did turn out pale blue lol.

    Im planning a shabby chic look for my bedroom and might pinch your idea and do something similar

    Suzy x

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  5. Really really gorgeous, I want to do our hall duck egg blue to but DH is having none of it. I have the opposite problem with walls in our house, whenever I've moved a curtain rail the wall just crumbles away behind where I'm trying to fix it!!
    x

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  6. very priddy- just love that ribbon flower. Did you make it or buy it?

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  7. Very pretty! And I really love the way you photographed it too

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  8. Wow, thanks ladies,it was so nice today to log on and see all your kind comments. Yes Penny I did make the flower (see previous post) and Sian do you know what? I took tips from the way I have seen you photograph your projects.

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  9. oh my this is soo pretty...you did a fabby job...can we see it again when its one the wall? ;0)

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  10. Love your flower. I tried one and it failed. Must have another go!

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  11. Ooo...very pretty Alana. I LOVE the flower too. Seems that it's a fave by everyone's comments! *Ü* TFS. ~Glen~

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  12. This is sooooo pretty :D
    Julie xx

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