I noticed that I didn't have a proclamation in our home, so I decided to change that. Well, actually we had some in our home, just not where people can see it. Recently as many of you probably already know, a judge said that Prop 8 was unconstitutional.. so it's been a big issue in my mind lately. I want people know how we feel and what we believe when they come into our home. If you don't agree with me, that's fine, we'll just have to agree to disagree. Although, I'm pretty sure I started this project before the ruling came out, but it just confirmed that we needed to put one up.
I also noticed that I didn't have a big picture of the Savior anywhere, we had a bunch of little ones on this cool Living Christ picture that one of my best friends gave me. Then I realized that I already had one, the frame was just in pieces and at my parent's house. So on one of our visits I took the picture and the broken frame. I quickly fixed the broken frame with a little hot glue and a staple gun (I'm guessing when the frame broke the glass broke too, but that's okay it makes it lighter and it will be fine held together by hot glue and staples lol). Anyways, I decided that I wanted the proclamation to go by the picture of the Savior and our big pictures from our wedding. Obviously I'd need a frame to match (the frame around the picture of Jesus already matched), well I didn't want to buy one because they are a little more than I'd like to spend. So I started the hunt. I looked at thrift stores and craft stores, and waited. I'm proud of myself for this point because I'm not usually very patient, but I waited and waited and then I found a frame that would work at a thrift store (for a $1.00!)! Then we went and bought some gold metallic spray paint and I got to work. I forgot to take a before picture, but here's a picture of my sample section to see if I'd actually like what I'd envisioned
Notice the shiny blue, not quite what I wanted, but as for the gold part, I was pretty impressed. What I did was hot glued these little patterns:
And then added a line in the middle (and removed all the little strings that come from hot gluing)
Then I spray painted the rest of it.
And then a few more times
Then I found as many pictures as I could find of our ancestors, I'm missing quite a few, but there is still room to add them. I made my own matting out of card stock and printed my pictures out on them too. I think when I have all the pictures I'll print them out at costco or something, but for now, I just printed them myself. Then I arranged them (several times), then I decided I needed something to fill in the gaps so I decided to make some flowers, I used this tutorial that I saw earlier that day and made some satin flowers. Then I assembled it all cut out some cardboard from a spare cardboard box, put that on the back, taped it up. And there you go:
Here it is on the wall, I like it!
And these two pictures are a sneak peak at another project we have going on... if I had taken a picture of right below all my pretty pictures, you would see a lot of the pieces of this project!
PS the background to one of the pictures is also another project we have in the works... it's a big project
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