Luckily Claire and
I really do enjoy going out to the fields to ride in the combine with
Daddy. Even though our visits with him
are short they are still the highlight of our days. And I think he would easily admit that visits
from us are the highlight of his day as well!
Over the years I
have come to embrace my alone time during the fall. I take advantage of this time to catch up on
organization projects, deep cleaning, browsing on pinterest, and watching TV
shows that I actually want to watch rather than staying on the History or
Discovery channels at all times, ha-ha.
This year I find
myself spending a lot of time being inspired on pinterest; anything from recipes,
to home organization ideas, to decorating ideas. I recently found this cute idea someone had
posted of a fun way to repurpose an old window.
I really like this sort of decoration, so I decided to give it a
whirl.
This is how I did it:
1- Find an old window that you like. I had some windows given to me by a relative,
but I have seen them at thrift stores, antiques stores, alongside the road for
free, etc.
2- Clean up the window and make it
sturdy. The window I used was not only
was dusty and dirty, but it also had flakey paint, and loose window panes. I like the distressed look of the paint, so I
just scraped all the loose paint off with a flat head screw driver and cleaned
it up with Windex and a rag. You could
strip, sand, and repaint the window frame if you don’t like the distressed look. To keep make the panes more solid in the frame;
I simply used some caulk adhesive to go around the edge of each frame and pane
on the back side of the frame. It was
very easy, cheap, and fast; just the way I like my projects, ha-ha.
3- Make a shelf. I found a piece of barn wood lying in our hip
roof barn that fit perfectly across my window.
I simply drilled holes and attached a shelf bracket on each side and
viola, I had a shelf.
4- Attach frame hangers. I attached 2 of the claw like frame hangers
to the top of the window frame so hanging on the wall would be easy.
5- Arrange pictures and embellishments. I glued (with clear scrapbook glue) the
pictures and embellishments onto the burlap.
I don’t know yet, but I am hoping when I want to change the pictures I
can just pull the old ones off and glue new ones on? Because I don’t know how they will come off I
did glue copies of the pictures onto the burlap, in case they rip while being
removed.
6- Attach burlap to window frame. From the back side of the window, I stretched
the burlap and used a staple gun to attach the burlap to the frame.
7- Hang the window on the wall. This may seem like the easiest part, but it
is most challenging for me, ha-ha. When
using anchors in our wall I always ask for Brad’s help because I don’t seem to
be very handy with them. Even though
this is a quick task, he isn’t fond of “honey do” projects so it usually takes
some coaxing, and possible bribery to get these things done, but I have my ways
J
8- Accessorize your shelf. I just put fun trinkets on my shelf that I
had lying around. I will keep my eye out
while antiquing for any other interesting things that may be more fitting for
the shelf.
And
that’s it! My window picture frame is
hung right in our entry way. It is the
first thing you see after walking through the door, and it makes all of us
smile. Claire is always pointing out Daddy,
and Brad is always saying what a cutie Claire is. What a fun “harvest widow” project J
