Why I Spraypainted All My Frames Black
Most of the art (I use the term loosely, for the most part) hanging in my apartment has been acquired at thrift stores, yard sales, antique shops, and from moving friends. Consequently, for a long time it hung rather blandly in a mishmash of antiqued, boring pea-green, brown, and gold frames with no sense of unity or cohesiveness at all. Sometimes I'm okay a mishmash (see: the assortment of blankets on my bed, the pillows on my couch), but since the kinds of things I have hanging on my wall are so diverse (you should know that all of...
From Dog Couch to Dream City, an Easy Outdoor DIY
One of the tasks we decided to tackle this crafternoon was the painting of a some plastic outdoor furniture given to Turby and John by John's and my parents. While the hunter green is completely suited to what they have going on in their backyard oasis in the middle of nowhere, Turby and John were looking for something a little more cheerful. Apparently there was a ton of this spraypaint at Dirt Cheap. I'm not sure if it was the fact that we only had one can, of if maybe the can we had came from a bad batch, or we...
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