A Thrifty Before + After

3.23.2011
You can often find Violet and me down at the Salvation Army rummaging through the shelves for some inexpensive milk glass (I have a bit of an addiction as mentioned in my previous post). Although I am generally fairly focused in my search, every now and then something else catches my eye. A few weeks ago I snatched up these two beauties for exactly ninety-nine cents each:


Now before you decide that I've gone completely insane, please know that one, my mom's kitchen was completely decorated in blue and ducks when I was growing up, so these prints have a nostalgic quality to them, and two, I've been searching for inexpensive oval frames for ages!

I don't know what got it into my head, but I've really been wanting a pair for over a year now, but they are always too small, too big, too expensive, or too gaudy. Finally I found a pair that is juuuust right. A little spray paint and a little of our extra wallpaper, and voila:



Inexpensive art that adds a punch of color and a fresh springy feeling to the H-Haus. So what do you think - do you miss the ducks? (Don't worry they're still in there - I couldn't bring myself to part with them) So long winter!



3 comments:

  1. i have those same pictures! so far, i've painted the frames green and just waiting for the printer to get fixed!

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  2. Judging from Renee's post, those two duck pictures are fairly common? But I swearrrrrrr that my mother had these exact same two framed ducks in my nursery and bedroom til I was about 8! And I believe they were in oval frames, too! They look identical to them, anyway. WEIRD. Hadn't thought of them in ages.

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