My mantle is a work-n-progress. I've had a black empty frame just leaned up against the wall for weeks.......well months!! I just can't decide on how to decorate it. I am on a tight budget and want it to look like I'm on a I have all the money in the world budget!! Ha Ha Ha Ha yea right I know.........that will never happen!! All in all it doesn't matter whether it looks like I've spent $20 or $200 on it I want to LOVE it!! And well right now.......I'm not LOVING it......I'm just liking it!
As I was lying in bed the other night with my mind running through the days course and jumping around to a new thought before the last one was even finished. Can anyone say ADD?!?!?! I can!!! This idea came to me. I already had the frame (I purchased from Hobby Lobby a long time ago for half off) and the "S". The frame measures 24x36, so I purchased a yard of burlap from Hobby Lobby. I cut a piece of cardboard to fit the opening of the frame from all the extra boxes I have in the basement from our move. I cut the burlap about 1 1/2" larger on all sides of the cardboard. I folded the excess burlap over the back of the cardboard and secured it with hot glue.
I painted the "S" black and cut some red ribbon. I put the burlap covered cardboard in the opening of the frame. I know that you have seen on some frames what looks like staples that you can bend to remove the back of the frame. Well I decided I would use my staple gun in the same way to hold my burlap covered cardboard in my frame. It worked! Now I don't think that I could bend them back and forth like in other frames. I plan on just taking them out and replacing them in the future, if I want to change out what is in the frame.
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