Gone Are My Gallery Walls

This weekend was a crazy garage sale weekend.  Everywhere I looked there was another one.  So many garage sales...so little time!!  My sister and I headed out early Saturday morning to a ritzy development with over 35 garage sales.  It... Was... Awesome!!!  My van was loaded with amazing deals.  I have so many new projects to work on and I'm very excited to show you the before picture of a $10 deal I scored.

A $10 playhouse...I couldn't believe it.  The potential is incredible.  I can't wait to get it fixed up.  You'll be the first to see it when I'm done.  $10...still can't believe it.

Anyway, last week I showed you the finished product of my staircase.  I used to have a gallery of photos hanging on the walls going up the steps.  But after we finished the steps I was afraid to hang all those pictures back up fearing one would fall and gouge one of my new steps.  So, I wanted something more stable that I didn't have to worry about falling off the wall but something that I could still display several pictures at a time.

I've seen many people using cabinet doors for picture frames but none quite like this.

Each of these cabinet doors were only $4 at my local Restore.

I just painted the cabinet doors and then applied stain over top of the paint to give it it's current color.

Next, I tied ribbon around these big paper clips.

Then I used Gorilla Glue to glue the clips in place.  Be careful if you've never used Gorilla Glue before.  I didn't read the instructions and so after I glued down my clips I realized that the glue expands.  Now I know...

My husband hung and wired them to the wall so there is very little chance of them falling and I like them just as much as I liked the gallery walls.

Thanks for visiting and don't forget to check back and see the progress on the $10 playhouse!

Carrie

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