Picture frame redo

My blog is aptly named because it seems that I can only find time to do things while he is napping. We do get some things done when he is awake like reading books and making a mess and we even make dinner in the evenings, but something that requires lots of my attention does not always work out so well when he is around. So I spent his afternoon nap time working on Chris's Fathers Day present. We forgot didn't celebrate Fathers Day last Sunday because we were at the Lake with Chris's grandparents and didn't have Dallin. I figure if you are going to celebrate Fathers Day that it should be with the one(s) that make you a father. So this weekend we have the house to our selves and will act as though Sunday is Fathers Day! And since I think my husband is a great father I wanted to show him somehow that he is a good father! I thought long and hard and decided I would buy him a meat loaf pan! He loves "meat and potato" meals where as I am not the biggest fan. Meat loaf though is the one meal I will let him make without my supervision help. I also wanted a sentimental thing as well though because that is all he ever asks for so I thought long and hard and decided to get him a picture. I haven't decided if I will do hand and foot prints of Dallin or the picture at the end of the post.

Unfortunately, since we are still not in our house yet my picture frame choices were limited... to this one. Its not bad but it is very boring to me. I think I have been looking at too many craft blogs lately... I don't like basic black so I wanted to change it.

Chris likes blue so I decided to make it a dark blue. Since I had to use acrylic paint I knew the black would show through so I needed the dark blue anyways.

While painting the frame I accidentally forgot to move the picture-holder-inners and so the ones on the bottom of the frame were painted in place and I had to go back and move them and then repaint. I felt silly but I guess I can just say its my first time ever doing this and so I can mess up!

This is the finished product! It is a dark blue but I wanted to experiment so I mixed some white with water and painted the whole thing and then quickly rubbed it off and it gave it more... something. I don't know what the word is. Dimension? Anyway, it looked neat to have the white "finish" on top because it lightened the blue a bit and also gave more colors to the overall frame. I really like how it turned out. We shall see if Chris does and if he will put it on his desk at work or hide it away...

This is the picture I am thinking of using. Dallin likes to play with shoes and so Chris was helping Dallin into his shoes and I thought if I got the picture with a cute saying about filling Daddy's shoes that it would be very cute. But at the same time I think it would be nice to get hand and feet prints of Dallin's in a frame. I still have a day and a half to decide or I can just let Chris decide. Either way, I like the frame and I am glad I could do something that has meaning for my Love for Fathers Day because he is the best father my kids could ask for!