REPURPOSING AN UGLY CANVAS

I intended to get this post out several hours ago but....

My son was leaving to go back to his home

my husband went into work later

(because our son was home)

I sat down to edit blog pictures, when...

I got a call from a wonderful friend

had to hangup with her

to get ready for a lunch date

with another friend

(the last of my birthday lunches)

:(

only to get to the lunch date

24 hours early!!!!

came home

needed to send out an email

and

here I am

two hours later!

And I haven't even looked at

Pinterest yet!

It's been a wonderful day so far

and

I'm not complaining

just explaining.

Now, for the featured post I promised you last week.  Another Before & After!   Yeah!!!!  These are my favorite posts to write and share with you.  (Oh, I'd love to share my family  with you and I just got a wonderful picture of us all, but my family is very shy and asked that I never feature them on my blog, so....I won't, but I wish I could sometimes!)

I inherited a 48" x 48" canvas that was extremely ugly.  And I'll share that ugliness with you--I'm generous that way, I know.

Yeah, someone actually bought this at one time and hung it in a living room.  I just want to say, "IT WASN'T ME!"   BUT, being thrifty, I wanted to repurpose it and knew I could KILL IT!  Yes, I killed it.  And it wasn't a sad thing to do at all, it was...a breath of fresh air.  Here's the dead canvas...after the first shot...

(Yes, there were other casualties too--that hideous green shower curtain had to go too, but found new life as a drop cloth)  I thought one can of Kilz would do it.  WRONG!  It took two.  But, then, a nice white canvas!  Aaaaahhhhhh, bliss!

Then, the nerves hit and I left the canvas in a closet for several months, did some other smaller studies and finally found my nerve to do something ultra-simple and this is the result.

A Picasso, it is not.  But I am happy with it and that is something (I can be very critical of my own work).  It is calming and reminds me of the ocean and that is what I wanted in this space.

Here's the room with the picture hanging.

NEXT IDEA  Just wanted to let you know, I'm changing gears in this post so it doesn't seem like I'm rambling--which is exactly what I'm doing, but...

I was in a restroom, with my IPhone (shock, I know) and saw this darling little idea I wanted to show you too.  It would be so easily duplicated.

It is a square piece of white-washed beadboard on top of a plain white-washed piece of wood.  On top of that is a picture of the turtles with a piece of glass held on with small metal mirror clips.  It took a small picture and gave it a "big" look with scraps of wood.  Just had to share it with you!

Thanks for reading, or just looking at the pictures.  I enjoyed our time together again this week.  I try to post of Tuesdays, but all of my regulars know sometimes I don't.  I hope to get another signage post in next week with a darling phrase on it.  I'll keep you posted.

Robin

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