I visited a friend’s house last week and was so inspired by their art COVERED walls. It made me think ours were a little bare. I looked to my own children–and a few thrift store finds—for inspiration. Two thrift finds in particular—some old frames and a cool, albeit a bit ruined, graphic vintage kids book–were my starting point.

I spray painted the frames—some red and some black to begin. I like the fact that the glass was missing. One less thing to worry about breaking in little hands. I carefully cut the pages from the board book with an big utility knife. It was just by chance that the page fit perfectly into one of the frames.

We had done some resist painting the week before….just simple -and I do mean SIMPLE-pastel drawings painted over with watercolors. I love how this technique really makes the colors brilliant.

These little bits of art add such personality to our home and their size makes them perfect to insert almost anywhere….onto working on some bigger scale pieces……