Vintage Wedding Photo

I have always loved my Grandma and Grandpa's wedding photo. They were married in 1928.  Late last year my parents gave me the photo.  It's such a great picture of them.  I think my grandma looks so elegant in her dress and headband.  Check out the huge bouquet of flowers with the draping ribbons.  This is the only time I've ever seen my grandma with short hair.  I remember her brushing out hair that reached all the way down her back and then twisting it into a braid before she went to bed.  During the day she would wrap it up into a neat bun that she piled on top of her head.  This photo of her as a young bride gives me a glimpse into her past and lets me see her as someone besides "Grandma."

My mom just told me "Her dress was blue velvet and she had made it herself. I still have a piece of the ribbon from the bouquet. She also carried a blue hanky that I carried at my wedding and two grandchildren of hers carried at their wedding. It is so fragile now that I have it framed along with the flower ribbon."

A week or two after they gave me the photo they had this frame laying by their front door because they were going to get rid of it. The frame was an ugly brown, made out of plastic, but it had a beautiful domed glass insert.   For some reason it also had this picture of a raccoon in it....

I tossed the frame into the trunk of my car and there it sat for a couple of weeks because I forgot about it.  When Tony put his cap and gown in the trunk for graduation, we told him the raccoon picture was his graduation present and made him pose at school with it.  My son has a good sense of humor and played along with our joke.  LOL!

I finally brought the frame inside and decided to paint it.  I mixed Aqua Smoke with a hint of black and got a really great gray/aqua color.  The photo doesn't do it justice, but take my word for it - it's a great color and beautifully offsets the black and white picture.  Then I popped Grandma and Grandpa's wedding photo into the frame.  It's a whole new look.

The framed photo is headed to the lake house.  It's going to look wonderful in my bedroom.

How To Make a Vintage Spoon Holder

For Tony's birthday last spring I had ordered him a special vintage stamped spoon.  You can read about it here.  Tony's been using his spoon when he eats his cereal or oatmeal, but given my track record for letting silverware slip down the garbage disposal, he was afraid I'd accidentally grind it up.  So last week he handed me his spoon and asked me to come up with a way for him to safely display it in his room.   Hmmm......

I went and dug thru my box of old picture frames and found a thick one that coincidentally didn't have any glass.  Then I grabbed 2 beat up pieces of wood from my stash pile and cut them to fit the back of the frame.  I just traced around the frame and cut the wood to size.  I gave the wood a quick coat of stain and once it dried I nailed them to the back of the picture frame....

Last week at a garage sale I had picked up these cute little numbers and letters inside metal rings, so I chose the number 4 for Tony's birthdate ...

And wrote his name using some of the letters, holding them in place with spiked nails.   Then I used an old staple to attach the spoon to the wood.  I love the wood grain, don't you?

It made for a quick and easy project.  Tony was thrilled with how it turned out.  It has a masculine feel to it, don't you think?  It's hanging on the wall in his bedroom and his precious spoon is safe from his mother who tends to get a little fast and loose with the garbage disposal.

 

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