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Tonight at dinner...

18 years ago

My DH said to me, "I think I'm going to have to do some modifications to the frame you made me for Christmas."

I said, "Like what?"

He said, "I'm going to have to remove the picture of my car."

I said, "Why?" thinking that maybe he knocked it over and broke it or something.

He said, "BECAUSE NOBODY IS EVEN LOOKING AT MY CAR, EVERYBODY JUST COMMENTS ON THE FRAME!!!!"

Boy, did I laugh. I had a hard time this year making gifts for my DH, DD and DS. My first ideas that I wanted to make them did not work out so I needed to come up with something else. My DH has a 1963 Ford Fairlane and when I asked him for an idea of something I could mosaic for him, he said he wanted a picture of his car that he could hang at work. I bought the frame but I had a heck of a time coming up with an idea. This is what I finally came up with.


The frame is 11 X 17 and it was silver so I covered it with clear textured glass so the silver would still show.

Barb

Comments (18)

  • 18 years ago

    Ha!!! I know what he means. Who would want to look at that car...I mean they made quite a few of those, but that frame!! It's an original object d'art!!

  • 18 years ago

    That's funny.
    I only see the frame too :)

  • 18 years ago

    That's AWESOME!
    What a funny story, too!

    Crystal

  • 18 years ago

    What a great frame! You came up with the perfect thing! Clever to use the clear glass and let the silver show. Definitely a checkered flag car, too! It's nice to have DH like your work, too! :)

  • 18 years ago

    what car????

    it's very snazzy!

  • 18 years ago

    Is there a car in the picture? Just see the dazzling frame...........great job...........! You have an adoring husband!

  • 18 years ago

    Oh! I really like that! I have a hard time doing anything manly! Very cool......I love the clear glass idea...looks great crafty!

    Hazie

  • 18 years ago

    Oh, that frame is perfect for retro 50's but yeah, the car needs a little glitz to match the frame.

  • 18 years ago

    Tell him you'll mosaic the car next . . . .


    then no one will look at the frame any more.

  • 18 years ago

    What a great compliment from him eh?! I had a 67 ford fairlane gt sport model, console, everything! It was my FAV car!!! Got stolen and dumped into a lake! Joyriding kids! But mosaicing the car IS an option!lol!

  • 18 years ago

    Great job, I like the effect of the clear glass.

  • 18 years ago

    That frame is way to cool! I love all the diamonds and squares. The clear glass to show the silver was a freakin brilliant idea...way to be creative!

    His car is nice too!!!!!

  • 18 years ago

    Freakin brilliant is right! And your dh, I am ROFL!

  • 18 years ago

    I can see why nobody notices the car! What a great creative mind you have! BRILLIANT!!!!

  • 18 years ago

    Funny story, great frame and cool idea about the clear glass. And the car is nice also.

  • 18 years ago

    Thanks all...I really struggled to come up with a pattern. Seemed like everything I did and liked looked too girly to be on his frame. I cut up a lot of glass in many different colors and shapes and didn't like how it looked until I pulled out the black & white. Then I decided to grout it gray but all I had was white and black grout. So I kept mixing white and black, then a little more white..oops now a little more black...by the time I got the color how I wanted it I had enough grout mixed up to probably grout 20 frames. LOL

    A couple of days later...we bought gray grout!!! That's what Colleen used on Bama's frame. It's so much easier when you don't have to mix up the grout to get the color you want!

    Wench...I'll have to remember to tell my DH that at dinner tomorrow night! He'll get such a kick out of it.

    Barb

  • 18 years ago

    Oh, Barb, that's such a nice story! And you were so stressed about it! It came out really nice!!

    Maria

  • 18 years ago

    OHMYGOODNESS. CRAFTY - that is absolutely a fabulous design for the frame. Yeah, your DH is right - I hardly noticed the car. Such a great design idea, and I can't believe how perfect your diamonds and squares are. You really learned the Morton system well.

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