Kellogg Kisses: Frame-worthy

After taking on the curtains, I had found a few cute ideas to bring color onto the walls via Pinterest. I finally settled on the frame idea, thinking I could go garage sale hunting and find some cheap frames and paint them our nursery colors. Well, it turns out when you’re looking for something specific at a garage sale; you’re not likely to find it.

Luckily one of those “looking” weekends we were driving around and I saw Aaron Brothers was having a buy one get one for one cent sale, and we stopped in. Boy were we excited when we walked in and saw an even better sale going one which was the buy one get TWO FREE! We ended up finding a set of 5, gorgeous decorative white frames with hooks and all (normally $50) and we bought two of them along with another gorgeous frame we decided to keep for ourselves and ended up with 10 frames of varying sizes for our wall all for $50!

Here’s an e-bay picture of what the frames looked like in the box, but in the pictures below you’ll see the detail of the frames truly pop!

Second thing I did after finding the frames was rummage through my house and try to find different shades of our nursery color. This was really great because I didn't have to buy any paint!

**Note: after painting all the blue frames I was a little frustrated with how many coats it took and opted to buy a brighter spray paint orange color for the bigger, more decorative frames.**

After all was said and done, it took about two weeks to get the frames ready to hang on the wall. I ended up buying a clear spray paint to seal the rest of the frames and give them a glossy look – so the whole process was a little more time consuming than I wanted, but the results were great!

Here are some pictures of the painting process, drying and the results:

When it came to hanging the pictures, we picked the big turquoise one for the middle, to hold our beautiful elephant head and then winged it from there. Originally, I was hoping for different shaped frames and since we weren't able to do that, I wanted to add ribbon to give some of the frames a little more dimension. It actually proved a lot harder than they make it look on Pinterest and in the stores. Here’s how our framed wall turned out: