Frames and Fabric

So I finally got my new floor for my kitchen!! And it's magical!!
Along with the hard adult choices of deciding which kind, how much to/not too spend, how to get it installed, and which color/design (being an adult is HARD!)
I had decided to expand my decor (or as some may say "lack there of") to bring everything a little more together.
This was really the only room in the house that was being left out.
So my journey began...
I bargain shopped everywhere possible, searched Pinterest near and far, and even called in for back up from Elisha and Lee Ann on opinions and suggestions!
My final decision was as follows:
•By some frames of different sizes
•paint them
•attach some cool fabric I found at Hancock Fabrics

First off the frames:
I found these at Hobby Lobby during a 50% off sale.

Next Paint:
I knew I wanted gray to bring out the color in my main fabric, but I wanted it a little cooler than just painted.
So after reading through some pins, I was determined to do the crackle paint. It would after all give these normal boring frames some coolness and texture.
I picked out a dolphin gray acrylic paint for the base, then a dark gray to go on top.
One pin said use Elmer's glue another said wood glue. So I put them head to head on the back of a frame to see which one i liked better and the wood glue won!
My crackle didn't turn out as...crackly as the pictures looked online, but isn't the the story with every Pinterest Project? I mean where do these people come from with their perfectness...it's sickening
None the less I'm pretty darn satisfied!!!
All you do is this:
-paint your frame with base color
-paint on wood glue (it's harder than it sounds so don't freak)
-wait a few mins...or don't, lol. They say to in the directions but during my trail run I kinda forgot the wait step and it still turned out ok
-when its tacky (given that you waited) paint on the second color
-.........no really that's it, no other steps, your done
What that seems too easy?
Here a bonus step..
-let it dry completely
Is that better????

Fabric:
I had this fabric put back from the minute I found it, it spoke to me, it said something like, "BUY ME!! YOU LOVE ME, YOU KNOW YOU DO!! BUY ME BUY ME!!"
And what can I say I'm a sucker for a begger, that and it was a remnant so it only cost me $6!!
After some patience, I begin to find some others to match. Now when I say patience, I mean MONTHS! It was hard!! I MEAN REALLY HARD PEOPLE! But it was well worth it because during those months I had to find out what the heck I was even going to do with the begger fabric.
None the less I found two more I was happy with and they were also remnants so that was only $12! And may I add that this was for a yard of fabric which is wayyy more than I needed, but at that price who can pass it up!?
When my frames were done all I did was staple the fabric (making sure to pull it tight) to the back of the frame and WaaLaaa! It's that easy!

So if your at a standstill for kitchen art..well any art for that matter,and don't want to have to sell your plasma for something neat to hang on your wall, don't forget to search your local fabric store in the remnants till something catches your eye and turn it into your own master piece!!

Cleaning pots and pans Attempt 1

First, do not judge me! And second, do not judge me!

I have owned some of my pots and pans for thirteen years. Seriously. One set my grandma bought me when I was eighteen and I just never could part with them. The other set was bought by my husband's grandma so we kept them forever too.

My cleaning approach was soap, water, dishwasher. I had no idea how to get the other stuff off of the pans.

Recently, I decided that despite the sentimental value of my pots and pans, I needed new ones, but first, maybe I should clean these and see if any were worth saving.

I, of course, first searched Pinterest for ideas and the first one was so easy that.... well, honestly, I forgot to read the whole blog about it. The solution was to use Easy Off Oven Cleaner to remove the burns and other gunk that develops on pots and pans over time. I assumed this was all I needed to know, so I bought fume free Easy Off and sprayed away. I followed the directions per the bottle and waited 2 hours then scrubbed. It worked great on the stainless steel pan but my generic TJ Maxx pan showed little improvement and my KitchenAid pots and pansweren't even worth posting pictures of, because there was really no results. However, I was so impressed by the shininess of my stainless steel pan (despite it still showing some black) that I decided I better reread the blog to make sure I did every last step. I missed one!
According to the blogger, she sprayed her pans and put them in a trash bag and left them over night. I may try this. I don't think I will on the KitchenAid pans because they are blue on the outside and I am afraid it might take that off and ruin them. I definitely need to do more research.

To be continued...........