An individual bird of prey.
These things can be expensive!)with the hopes of using it for another baseball-themed project.
That project morphed into something else so I ended up having this extra shadow box to use up..Although I like the way they look, I’m not usually a huge fan of shadow boxes cause they just seem kinda finicky to put together in a nice way.Like you need all kinds of different little doodads to fill them up, you know?.
I made this one with all of two things in it, Jack’s birth announcement and the little hat he got in the hospital, and I love it!.Covering the backing first with a bold fabric helps to fill in the blank spots and really make for an eye-catching display.
So if you’re not very crafty, or just not feeling very crafty at the moment, this is a neat way to do it..
I didn’t even bother hanging it up.I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob.. At a certain point it occurred to me that what I was actually doing was holding a flame up to a part of my beloved house and heating that part up more and more.. Um, no.. As usual, I didn’t want to wait to see the results of the natural tarnishing so I grabbed my trusty dollar store craft paints and did a little faux magic, instead of you know, setting my house aflame.. -Wipe on a dab of black everywhere, including in the nooks and crannies.
Wipe off.. -Wipe on a dab of burnt umber everywhere.Wipe off.. -Wipe on a dab of gold.
Wipe off a little bit, but leave it on mostly..So that got it half-way there.