The picture frame is finished and it was so much fun I'll do a couple more but this time to sell. Every time I do something new I learn a little more. With this one I started out on foil for easy clean up and to protect my work surface from paint and glue. It sounded like a good idea but the reflections from the foil make it hard to see the work. It also makes the photos difficult.
Below is a shot of the frame with the beads glued to the front. Like I said before the glue smell is so strong I could only work on it for short periods. Once all the beads and glue were dry on front I trimmed the strings and overhanging beads. I found out that using a hot fabric burner with a small tip is a great way to cut and finish the strings and burn away dried glue that was in the wrong spot.
I glued lines of beads around the inside and outside edges. After all that I went back and used clear Elmer's glue to fill holes where beads didn't stick or I needed to fill small spaces where I couldn't attach beads still on the string.
Below is the frame with all the beads attached. The opening in the frame is 4 x 6 and it starts out as a plain pine frame I bought at Michael's. The strings of beads were made in India and also bought at Michael's a couple years ago. They are fairly crude and uneven in size and color. The crosses and chunks of glass are from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. The carved coral rose at the top to the top cross is also from Michael's. The turquoise skull is from a sting I bought at a bead show in Memphis.
Now that the frame is done it's Bob's job to find a picture he wants to put it in and find a place to put it in his "shrine".
Included below are pictures of the other items in the shrine. The shrine started with just the Our Lady of Guadalupe candle in the center of this picture. The other candles were gifts or purchased from various places around town.
Like I said before, Bob has a thing from the Sacred Heart. He picked up this picture just last week.
The heart and mirror are from a shop in a small Texas town. The ornament hanging from the mirror is a recent gift from our best friends.
Don't know where he got this, I think from that same shop in Texas.
This is piece of bone with an ink drawing of a dancing skeleton in a shadow box frame. He picked this up in Florida.
The candles below I couldn't resist. I purchased them from, Vicki Berndt, a seller on Etsy. They were a surprise Christmas gift.
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