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My friend Bethany and I were discussing how much we loved the little black and white silhouettes that you see around now.  She told me about a blog she knew about that had just done a cheaper, homemade version of the silhouettes.  I had just found some vintage frames from a yard sale in Jenks for a whopping $1 each so I thought it would be fun to make my own version of the silhouettes.  And of course, as always…I had some help.

Oh and by the way, I have to tell everyone about this fun new place I found in Jenks!  I don’t know what the name of it is but it is open ONLY the first Monday in Jenks.  If you just drive through downtown Jenks you will see a little store with all kinds of fun stuff pulled out on the sidewalk.  It is right next to Contemperary Tile in downtown Jenks, I believe.  You can also go into the store to look for more treasures.  I found some fun stuff and can’t wait to go back next month!  I used the green pitcher and glasses for display in my glass cabinets in the kitchen.  I will have to do pictures of that some other time.

So here’s how I did my silhouette.  I started with the $1 frames I found at the Jenks Yard Sale.

Then I took a picture of my little momma’s profile and pulled it up on my computer. I went outside and spray painted my frames with this cool stuff I found at Michael’s that gives it a “pearl” finish.  I just liked the silver better than the gold for what I as doing.  The picture of the little girl was painted by Emmy’s great grandma.  I also wanted to refinish the gold frame it was in. My little helper and I printed off the picture on cardstock. Then we cut it out and put it on top of another piece of cardstock to paint it black. We traced the shape of a frame onto another, clean piece of cardstock and cut it out.  We then modge-podged that cardstock onto backing of the frame.  After letting that dry, we modge-podged the silhouette that we had painted black and let dry, on top of the other cardstock (that we had cut to the shape of the backing of the grame).  I know some people say to use spray adhesive instead of modge-podge but I didn’t have any so I just used what I had and it worked. The last thing we did was put the backing with the silhouette now on it, back into the frame. For now I hung it above a little zebra seat in Emmy’s room with her grandma’s painting.  I am wanting to revamp all of this and do a whole wall of vintage pictures/art, etc… instead of just these three pics.  I will have to continue to work on that one though and look for more treasures and things to refinish!  Oh, and the zebra bench was a thrift store find.  I bought it for $40 and it had the ugliest mauve fabric on it.  I found this fun zebra fabric and refinished it.  Unfortunately, there are no before and afters of the bench since Coco threw my iphone into the pool.  The only “before” picture I had was on the poor old iphone which is obviously lost forever now.