Thank you for all the sweet comments about my niece. It has been 4 days since I last saw her (granted I have been out of town for 3 days). I miss her. I have some pictures of her and her daddy that are a little different than what I normally do. I am working on a post for them next week, maybe Monday….
I’m still working on details in the playroom. One thing I wanted to include was a spot to display pictures and artwork by the kids. Several years ago I bought a gold mirror from Garden Ridge and painted it black for our living room. It hasn’t been used in a long time so I decided to take the mirror out and give the frame a new life.
After removing the mirror, I painted the frame a bright yellow. Then I stapled chicken wire to the back side of the frame. When I bought the chicken wire from Atwoods the man working that department asked if I needed any pointers for my chicken coop. I told him I was making a frame for artwork. He shook his head and walked away.
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To hold pictures to the chicken wire I hot glued small clothes pins to the back of some of my Charlie Harper memory cards. I let the boys pick out their favorite cards to use.
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Super easy, super affordable and I think it is pretty practical and cute!
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Laura - Wow, I really love it! I’ll try to build one by myself, but I’m not sure yet if I’ll be able to do so… I found another inspiration for the clips on a website called “Just little things”. I’ll post some photos on my blog if I’ll ever finish that project…
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Melody - That’s too fun! I love it.
carla - I made this with a large old window frame and it came out awesome, super easy. Every January I take everything down and go through it, saving those special mementos and gleefully throwing away the rest, knowing that I gave it its due and enjoyed it while I had it!
Kirstie - I love this! I have some old windows that I bought at a thrift store because they were so cool and had yet to do anything with them until I saw this post! I took out all the glass, repainted the frame and added coil wire strands along the backside to hang up photographs and random things; they look so pretty! Thanks for the inspiration, your site is amazing! It’s a new favorite of mine!
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karen - cute…i did this same thing about 10yrs ago with a barn wood frame and chicken wire to display some black and white rustic cowboy pics of my sweet little boys (6yrs and 4yrs old at the time.) now my little sweeties are 16 and 14!!!
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Kristen - I copied this idea, but instead of using it for snapshots, etc. I hung it in my little girls room as a place to store her ever growing collection of hair clips! LOVE IT!
Melinda - Oh my goodness! I just found your blog today and your work made me so happy my heart was fluttery! I might even cry! What a wonderful WONDERFUL place and so many creative and inspiring ideas! I can’t wait to get some chicken wire!! (Among other things!)
Jamie - very pretty
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Rachel - I love that yellow. Wow! Thanks so much for the project Ashley! I’ll be linking.
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Shannon - Well now I know what I’m doing with that old frame I have laying around! SO cute!
jaimelee - oh thank you so much for posting this. I have this akward spot in my kitchen that needs this so bad. I hang a calendar there but it is so just not right,I need a beter way to display it this will go perfectly especially since i have a rooster here and there in it!
emily anderson - this (of course) turned out super cute.
fabulous.
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lifeologia - This project is SO ASHLEY
Great idea as usual.
xoxo
Kristen - Love how you revamped this frame into something completely different! Great idea! And that glossy yellow color is so fun.
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Kelly - Greatness! I once went to ace hardware to buy lumber. The gentleman working asked me what I was building. I explained that I was not building anything and long story short, after he didn’t “get” that he refused do sell me the wood because he said that I couldn’t transport it in my small car! Little did he know that I have carted an antique iron double bed in my little sedan so I just went to Home Depot.
Kelly
Jane - What a great idea! Looks fabulous!
Faith - I already have a chicken wire frame, but I’m TOTALLY stealing the clothespins idea. CUTE!
Desiree - I REALLY like it!!! I’ll have steal the idea some day. Looking forward to the pictures of you niece and bro-in-law!
robyn - love it! my next stop after checking out your blog was etsy and PB to find some sort of “thing” to put in my son’s room for him to hang up stuff. art work, pictures, and the post cards daddy sends from work in NYC that he adores to look at daily.
this is PERFECT!
im going to do it… i think!
thanks!
Stephanie - Love this idea!
Brooke - Great idea! It’s so cute! I just spied a family picture that you put up, and sweet little Firecracker looks so little!! When I See the picture on your header pop up with baby sister with the cat eye glasses, I can’t help but think that she looks so different! She is so grown up, it’s borderline sad! Wow, sort of pathetic that an unknown friend can feel sad that your child is growing so fast
Love this idea though.
Bron @ Baby Space - You are craftily amazing! Loving your blog.
Heather - holy cow! that is so cute! what a great use of those amazing cards. we have the game too and have only seen half the cards because it came with so many and you really just play with so few.
love it. definitely going to do!
meg duerksen - LOVE it.
i have so many things to paint and make! i feel like a crazy lady.
Anna Joy - How doyou think of these things, genius woman?! I can’t wait to see this play room!!!
Lori - Oh i love this and the yellow paint – so fun!
Shannon - LOVE this! Much better than the clothespin and ribbon set up I have going. Adding a huge pretty frame to my list of things to find!
Janica - MMmmm….I’m LOVING that yellow!
Ranee - Love this! What a great way to re-purpose an old frame!
the inadvertent farmer - I did this to the front of a cabinet once and love it…thanks for the reminder we have long since moved from that house and I need to do another!
LOVE that yellow color it is soooo happy! Kim
Lori Danelle - Funny. I have one of these planned! Just haven’t had time. (oh, time. . .how I miss thee.)
Gevay - I love Charlie Harper. We have some alphabet cards of his given to my boys by my cousin. I am looking forward to getting a calender with his artwork for next year! I can’t wait to see your kid’s playroom!
arlene - I stumbled across your website a few weeks ago and have been reading everyday including skimming through the archives. I LOVE your blog! I know you’ve got four kids, but, I think you need a book deal filled with DIYs and photography tips. On the upcoming arrival of my first baby, I’ve invested in a dslr and if I can manage it, I can’t wait to attend the online snap shop you have planned next year.
patti - what a great idea and so beautifully executed!
Moriah - I can’t tell you how much I am inspired by your DIY projects and blog in general. I love love love them! I work full time with two small children, but on the weekends I love to try out some of your ideas. Thank you for the morning inspirations (which area always accompanied by a cup of coffee).
Dana F - Fantastic Idea! I was thinking of something similar for my jewelery but as I like chunky necklaces, the screen normally used wouldn’t bear their weight. The Chicken Wire is GENIUS! (they yellow rocks too – thank you for the idea!
Kara P - Looks fabulous!!!!!!
shelly@familyblt - SUCH a cah-ute idea! Great yellow–and the pics you put on it are so fun
Lisa Johnson - I love this!!
maria - Ashley, you are the queen of thinking outside the box!!Love how it came out and so unexpected!!! Quick question, I was wondering if you could include tips in a post on how to capture interior room images with a dslr camera. I get the wide angle lens thing, but also wondering about settings. The ones you’ve done of your home are spectacular!! thanks
Sophie - I need to do this now! I have an empty wall space just crying out for it! I may have to even make it yellow; my favorite color (:
tasha roe - you are a genius!
everything you do is so super-fantastic!!
gah!! i need to go find a frame or two now at my local thrifting faves.
The Lady of the House - Wowza! Super fun memory frame! Lovin’ it deary!
jenny - I love it! Ok, it is official, your blog is my favorite ever! I have loved every project that you have posted.
Thanks for sharing!
Kirsten - Love it! Very cute, and so easy.
And P.S. I love, love, LOVE the pic of Firecracker (at least, I think it’s her) at the ping pong table!!
christina larsen - Very Cute!
Sarah - ok~ have you been reading my mind??? I’m doing this EXACT same thing in my soon to be play room! so, does this mean i’m as talented as you?
i could only wish…
summer - so cute! and I love that bright pop of yellow…why is it that men at hardware stores don’t understand our creative insanity like the men in our lives?
Rebecca - I was trying to think of ways to have my kids artwork displayed. (The fridge is getting a little too crowded). This idea is much better and much larger than what I was dreaming up. Thank you for sharing. Love this creation.
MGF - How do you ever sleep? All these ideas rollin around up there.
Thanks for sharing.
Kristin - I Love, Love, Love this idea! Thanks for sharing!
Jodi - that creative brain of yours is ridiculous! I LOVE this. You never cease to amaze! Can’t wait to see the playroom!
colleen - I have several of those heart people, all made with love by my kiddos… So precious. Great idea, i have a frame sitting with in my vision that needs a make-over! Thank Ashley Ann for regularly getting my creative juices going!
Tammy Kay - p.s. I made the cateye glasses onesie last night. Super cute. I might post it to my blog today.
Thanks for the idea!
Tammy Kay - this is such a neat idea. I love the yellow!