Last Friday, I was in my sister’s garage explaining an idea I had.  She just so happened to be throwing out the very thing I needed for my idea: Window Frames!  As a recycling-activist, she let me load up her dumpster-bound window frames into my car to create something new.

Here is what they looked like when I picked them up:

With some very skilled helpers, we sanded them down, leaving only a touch of the alligator-scale-looking paint:

Painted them turquoise, as my husband and I have decided that’s a good color for our home decor.  Since the wood was rather old and dry, it took the paint extremely well.  We left it on for 5 minutes before wiping it:

Left them out to dry for a few hours before waxing them with this awesome-ness:

Measured the frames and divided them into three sections each direction, to keep the look of a window:

Drilled holes where we had marked each section with a sharpie (notice that the holes are on the back side, so are not visible from the front.  We determined the back/front side based on where the glass had previously been, as an indention was still present):

We tied wire around a screw before attaching it to the frame, leaving an inch of wire to be wrapped around the second screw:

Attached teethed brackets on the back of the frame so we could hang them:

To attach pictures to the frames, we decided to use clothespins.  They looked too new for our frames, so we took them apart and rubbed Harrell’s antiqueing wax all over them:

After wiping the wax off and putting the pins back together, we got this:

Hung it on our wall:

After deciding which pictures to print, we scattered them on the frame and got the following:

I really love these frames and think they may be great thank-you gifts!!