How to Resize a Wood Picture Frame

Last year I bought an art print by Clayton Vance at Swiss Days (Utah’s most happening craft fair!) I figured that I’d make myself a frame for the print once I decided on a style. As usual the print sat and sat because there is always something else to work on. Then a few months ago, I was browsing Tai Pan Tradings summer tent sale and found this nice solid mahogany wood picture frame for $20. I knew it was the wrong size, but for $20 I couldn’t pass it up. A DIY molding frame would cost at least that much to make, and that’s for MDF that would need to be painted.

To resize a wood picture frame you’ll need a miter saw and depending on how you want to make your joints, a drill and Kreg pocket hole jig. For this frame I used pocket holes to make the new joints.

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How to Resize a Wood Picture Frame

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Easy Reclaimed Wood Box Centerpiece

My friend has a big family party coming up and needed help with barn wood mason jar box centepieces. She needs a variety box centerpiece sizes: 3 jar, 4 jar and 5 jar. These trough style boxes are simple to make and they are so handy to have on hand for home decoration, holiday decor and parties. I was happy that my friend wanted the barn wood (reclaimed wood) look since I have a nice stash of barn wood laying around :-), which makes building these super super cheap.

I started with this little fence panel and I was able to get 7 boxes out of it.

I took apart the fence and made sure to remove all nails. The final product turned out pretty cute, I’m loving the sea glass colored mason jars and the rope handles.

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Square Scallop Mason Jar Centerpiece

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My friend’s daughter got married recently and she wanted cute scallop mason jar centerpieces for the tables. She wanted some long boxes and some square boxes with removable dividers. They turned out really cute, I had to make one for myself.

How to Make a Scallop Mason Jar Planter Box Centerpiece

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Wood DIY LOVE Marquee Letters

My Aunt Becky is a wedding planner extraordinaire, or should be! She has helped with mine, my sister’s and cousin’s weddings, so to say I owe her a big favor would be an understatement. When my cousin, her youngest daughter, got married earlier in May; I was asked to make some huge LOVE marquee letters like seen in this cool LOVE picture via Rebecca Douglas – isn’t that stunning! From the dark picture, I can’t tell if the letters are flat or are trimmed out like typical marquee letters.

My Aunt needed the letters freestanding, so I opted to trim the letters. Either way the letters look really cool and are pretty easy to make, just take a little bit of time. They are really big, 40″ tall, and definitely make a statement.

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Wire Basket Styled-X3

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I am really excited to be a part of a fun series hosted by Stacy at Not Just A Housewife called Styled X3. Each month Stacy sends out a decorative item to 2 other bloggers with no instructions other than to see how they style it for their home.

This months decorative item is this cute wire basket from Amazon.

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I love the look of wire baskets, I could use this basket almost any where in the house. However it is getting COLD outside, so that means the gloves and hats will be out soon. Maybe, just maybe if there is a place for the hats and gloves to go, maybe they will get put away after each use. 🙂 Wishful thinking right!

I have gold accents in my mudroom, I thought it might be fun to spray the bottom of the basket gold to tie into the color theme.

To define the color transition I weaved 7/8″ natural/gold ribbon through the basket.

To remind the kids that the basket is for their winter stuff, I thought it would be fun to add a snowflake. I printed out a 4 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ snow-flake pattern and traced it onto a scrap piece of 3/16″ plywood.