Monday, March 28, 2011

There'll be NO Peeping Toms looking through this window...

Hey y'all...my name is Jessica from 

MWMBH_Main

and I absolutely LOVE abode...
LOVE IT!!!


I found this old window frame there a while back...

It was pretty beat up and had no glass....
but I knew I could ROCK it out

Had the Boo~Bear drill some holes at the bottom...


Sanded it down..got all the glue and goop off...


And, of course, gave it a coat of spray paint...


Sanded it a little...
cuz y'all know I have to DISTRESS everything


Now for the fun part...
The memo board


I bought thick, black matting...as you can see I had some extra.


So I traced the window frame on the matting and then cut it with my rotary cutter.


Cut some craft batting to size and stapled it to the matting.


Next up ~ the fabric...

I cut the fabric to size (a little bigger than the board) and then folded it over...I started with a straight edge then the corner (and so on and so on)


To fold the corners, I simply folded the corner in like so....


And then folded it over like so...


And stapled it down...

{YES, that is my RED STAPLER}

The ribbon was next...


I started with an X 
{pinned them down at each corner}
and continued to lay ribbon out 6 inches apart
{pinning each piece down as I went}


After all the ribbon was laid out 
{you guessed it} 
I stapled it

{note that I stapled the ribbon from the front and then from the back}

Then I simply nailed it to the back of the window frame...


{ oh ya...and attached the knobs }


What do y'all think of my 
Old Window Frame turned Memo Board?


I kinda dig it

{ JeSsIcA }

1 comment:

abode said...

Yikes - I think I'm in love!