From Dumpster to Pretty Lady

Two weeks ago, I posted about items I acquired from trash pick up on my street, my baskets. (Still have more items to refinish). Well this week it is an item I found in a dumpster. I would have liked to found more, but I was yelled at to NOT pick anything from the dumpster. Oh, well at least I got this frame.

It didn't look like this when I rescued it however, but I really liked it and had to have it. 

 This is the "before" picture. It had so much detail on the frame and the fact the it was an octagon shape just enhanced the find.

Here you can see that the mirror was cracked. 

The first thing I did was to paint it. I spray painted it with Rust-oleum Ultra Cover in Satin heirloom white.

Once it was dry, I sanded it slightly and then added CeCe Caldwell clear wax. After wiping off the excess and letting it dry, I added  CeCe Caldwell dark wax. I wiped it off and let some stay in the crevices.You can see part of the frame in the picture below.

Now for the center. I copied an image from an old piano sheet music that had two pink ladies on the front. I loved the one with the large hat. When I was making copies of it, the lady's head printed out to fill an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper. I cut the sheet in half and began to pleat it and liked the color the image generated. So instead of using sheet music or old pages, I decided to use the "blown" up version of the lady's head.

I added a circle I made from poster board that I painted with Martha Stewart glitter paint. I placed the pink lady's face with the pink hat in the center of the circle and then added a pink ribbon and some embellishments.

I added a piece of lace on the back to attached the pink lady circle to the frame. I placed the frame in my bathroom over the toilet.

My framed pink lady looks great in the bathroom. 

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