Key Art -

My Mom is visiting from Colorado.

Every Spring she comes to visit and brings me little momentos from home.

Last year,

she brought me this apron

 she sewed some 50 years ago.

It now hangs in my kitchen.

This year,

in her bag of goodies,

 she brought 3 skeleton keys.

My dad built the home

 60 years ago and these are the keys from the original doors.

Now what to do with these keys?

Yesterday,

Pottery Barn sent me an email with this image.

Pottery Barn

I see I'm going to need more than 3 keys

 if I'm going to go with this display.

Restoration Hardware

sells this Key Art for a mere

$199

Who's key is that anyway?

No history there,

just a key,

but I like the concept.

So,

here's what I did.

I purchased a frame from G.W. (Goodwill)

for $3.99,

factor in the coupon and it was

$3.29.

The matte is raised off the rectanglular opening,

perfect for a display.

I took it apart and headed to my spray painting station.

I painted the frame and the paper matte black.

What did I have to lose?

I cut a small piece of burlap to fit in the insert.

I glued the burlap and the keys with small dabs of hot glue,

put the frame back together and my art is now valued at 

$4.00

Popcorn Key Art

My new keys are going to have a new home on this wall.

Keys from my childhood home.

That's worth more than $4.00,

isnt' it?

These ladies are having some wonderful

party's,

check them out!