This blog should be called “Decorating with Butterflies”. Apparently I love them and just can’t get enough butterflies! They live in almost every room of the house:
They are my go-to for art, fabric and accents.
Case in point: I’m looking for something to hang above the towel bar in our newly repainted master bathroom. Everything I have is either too big or too small or has kittens on it and says something about sisters. Then I remember these two long skinny frames that my Mama gave me. With seashell prints. Obviously the seashells have to go. But what can I put inside? At 14” wide I don’t have anything I can print that would fit. So I decide to sandwich something between the two pieces of glass (one from each frame). Ferns would be good but its winter and I don’t have any in the garden that don’t look frozen. Hmmm… how bout a picture of something… Butterflies? I can’t find anything to print (vintageprintable.com) that is landscape and close to my dimensions.
Lightbulb! What if I use cutouts of butterflies in a collage! So I find and print two pages of butterflies and cut them out (minus their antennae… poor butterflies). Then I simply arrange them in my frame and stick them to the glass with a glue stick. Place the second piece of glass on top and replace in frame. Voila!
Instant art. Love.
What do you think? Think I should be committed for using butterflies all over the place? Think I am a genius with a color printer and a glue stick?
As soon as it gets warm enough to spray paint, I’ll show you what I did with the second frame!
2 comments:
Everybody needs a go-to theme. My mother-in-law is owls. I'm kind of fond of bears and forest.
"That is SOOO Pretty" quote from your niece Caroline
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