Repurposing Old Art

Most of you know that we're working (slowly) on getting the house ready to put on the market. We were hoping for this summer, but it now looks like it's not going to be until next Spring. 

One of the rooms I've been working on (slowly) is the guest room. It's the first bedroom you see when you go upstairs and I wanted it to look good. The colors were dated and since we needed to make room for a special treasure from my mother in law's estate, the dark furniture had to go, especially because we were lightening things up.

What does all that have to do with the above photo???

New Life For a Painting

Hey everyone! Hope you had a fantastic weekend!

I've had a dilemma about a piece of artwork that I've had for several years...
Since we are in the process of changing the colors in practically all the rooms in our house, most of the artwork and accessories are the wrong color.

What do you do when your artwork no longer fits with the new colors you're decorating with? 
I purchased this painting to go along with all the red and gold in our house several years ago. I don't know about you, but it's not in the budget to get new artwork every time we paint. Since it wasn't an expensive piece and a graphic design, I figured I could paint it. If it I didn't like the way it turned out, I could just re-paint over it.
Besides, I still liked this painting, so I painted it to go with the new colors in my dining room...

Here's the before:

And here's the after:

 This was a zero, zip, nada cost project since I already had the paint I used to do this. Gotta love that!!!
I'll reveal how I did it on another post.
Have you ever been brave enough to paint over a painting before?

Pam

A Wonderful Gift

This past Mother's Day was a little rough for me as that was the long weekend that my husband drove my oldest daughter Jess out to Southern California to start a new job. My youngest daughter Jenny saved the day by bringing me flowers and taking me out for dinner.

This past weekend, Jess came back to attend her sister's high school graduation and gave me a painting (that she painted)for my Mother's Day gift.

Isn't it beautiful?

Here's a closeup of some of the detail...

This is what she wrote on the back...

Isn't that sweet?

Now, all I have to do is find a great place to display it!

Hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

Pam