Over the past few months I have had my eye on a craft at an expensive home decor store. It was a wood frame with wires between it and picture clips hanging from the wire. I would see this item and think how wonderful it would look in Matt and I's home. However, my wallet did not like the price of this craft. One day, Matt and I were browsing and I showed him this piece. His first words were, "we could make that." From then on I was determined to make this piece!
My first step in making this was finding the perfect wood frame. I found this item at an antique store in my Nanny's hometown of Vinton, Virginia. This item was PERFECT and I only paid $5.00 for it!
I have now had this frame for a couple months and have been anxiously waiting to craft my perfect wire picture holder. I decided that the 4th of July would be a perfect crafting day. Especially since I could recruit Matt to help :)
The first thing that we did was drill holes in the back of the frame and place fixtures in those holes for the wire to go through. We did three fixtures on each side of the picture frame. These fixtures came in a picture hanging kit from Wal-Mart. It was $5.95 for a kit of nails and picture hanging supplies!
We then took picture hanging wire and fed it through the eyes of the fixtures to make a straight line of wire across the frame.
Below is what the frame looked like from the back after we had attached the wire. We then added clips to the wire. These clips were left in our house when we moved in, but you can find them at any craft store.
Finally, it came time to add our wedding pictures! I was so excited to finally have this craft hanging in our home.
Total, it took us about 30 minutes to finish and it is a wonderful addition to our living room! Thank you to my wonderful husband who has now become quite the crafter :)
I am quite impressed Mrs. Webb! Very good use of $11
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