Headband for a Headboard?

You know how it feels when you can't get your bed to look just right? I've had that problem forever now. So, I stopped making it.

:)

Then I had one of those nights where for some reason you get your best ideas right before the brink of sleep...you know how that goes. And you just hope and hope that you can remember it in the morning because you are too lazy and tired to get up and write it down?

Well, I had one of those nights a few nights ago.

But somehow, magically, maybe it was a force of God, but I actually remembered!

I have a lot of before pictures of my bed, and thats only because I can never get it to look just right, so I always changed it up.

I recently made a new headboard for my bed, which was easy peasy and totally cheap. You can see the tutorial on it here.

And its still there, so this is how my bed looked before....

And since then, I made more pillows and bought a few more pillows and covers and then had nooo idea how to display all of them or even a few of them.....so some how, it came down to hardly making the bed cuz I didn't want to deal with it.

So, first, I update the headboard with a little headband....yes, headband :) See:

All it took was a little burlap and a dollar store frame:

I spraypainted the frame, cut the burlap to size, glued some cut skewers  in the middle of the frame and pulled the burlap through:

 

Then stapled it to the back of headboard.

Easy peasy pumpkin cheesy :)

I got rid of most all of the accent pillows and went for something a little more simple and made a bolster to replace them all. Then flipped the two standard size pillows in the back so they were taller than the ones in front of them.

And.Finally.

I have a bed I actually want to make.

Cost of the 'headband'~ $3.

Cost of bolster ~ $5

Little flower on bolster ~ priceless

Next step.....paint that ugly night stand, then maybe, just maybe I'll be happy and stop redoing my room.

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10 Steps: Frame to Tray Tutorial

So, I totally had this wonderful plan to do a tutorial on how to make a tray out of a frame, but I was a dimwit and forgot to take any before and during pictures. So, how does one do a tutorial?...Without many pictures :)

#1.First things first. You need a frame. Anyone that is an 8x10 or bigger. Usually bigger. Preferably one that is more retangular than it is square.

We'll pretend this is the way my 'tray' looked before. Which is probably close: $2 from the thrift store.

Of course, this particular frame is the smallest I would ever go, but I guess it depends on where you want to use the tray and how you're going to use it.

#2. Next. Sand that bugger (Now use your imagination and picture someone sanding)

#3. Then. Prime and spraypaint (Once again, us that imagination :) )

#4 Once everything is dry. Do a little distressing:

(This is obviously the finished pic, but you get the point)

As always, I used my furniture touch up pen to stain the distressed areas. Works like a charm every.single.time.

#5 Add hardware:

I found the flattest or most adaptable part of the frame I could to screw these bad boys in to -one of each side of course. :)

#6 Now, this step isn't a 'have to' but I decided to start doing it on all of my trays ever since the mishap of my coffee overflowing off the coffee pot, onto the tray, and seeping its way through the paper below. As illustrated:

Can you tell? It's just a weebit discolored.

So, to stop this from happening. I use Silicone to make a waterproof barrier between the glass and the frame:

#7 Next, find whatever paper/fabric/whatever.the.heck.you.want.to.look.at.through.the.top to add to the frames original backing (I usually throw away the original artwork, incase you were wondering) I just sprayed spray-adhesive to the back of the paper then pressed it on the backing.

#8 Next up. Assemble

#9 Look at the beauty you created out of something so ordinary :)

#10 Now find a place to display it!

From previous experience, when picking the frame you want, try to find one that has some height or depth to it. It makes it more eye catching and appealing...and useful especially if its really deep.

As you can see, I went for a frame that had some good height to it. Loooove it :) For a few other specimans, check out this post.

Next Step....your turn!

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The Magical World Of Spraypaint

Remember this? Thought so...of course it was just one post ago.

Now see this?

Eh? Nice and delicious.

Well these.....use to look like this:

Not so delicious...in fact, pretty grimy.

Thank goodness for spraypaint. (oh, and a little cardstock)

And once again.....

Remember this?

Well this use to be my grandmothers.....

so obviously it didn't start out looking like that. It looked like this:

Once again...It may be from all the fumes....but I absolutely love spraypaint. It can transform just about anything into something wonderful :)

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Framed trays

So, I'm looking around my house and notice that I have all these old goodwill frames and a ton of scrap booking paper. The frames are just sitting around, the paper's just sitting around. So I figure, maybe they can sit around together. Right? And voila! An idea emerged. How about making a tray out of the frames? I just spray painted the frames, distressed a few of them and added some bling (paper :) ) under the glass. And this is what happened:Then I thought, whats a tray without handles? So I went to the Home Depot and got myself some extra cute hardware to put on the sides and made an extra cute tray that I can put glasses and food and mail and whatever the heck I want on it.
This was the before:

I added more bling under the glass with these embellishments and some ribbon:

I use this tray for my "coffee station". It slides in and out of the corner perfectly by just adding some adhesive sliders on the bottom. Here's the before (pretty huh?): And after:

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