More spray paint magic

I have always loved the shell embossed pictures of my mother-in-laws, but the frames were dated- shiny brass.

I thought I could take them apart and replace the frame, but they are not just stuck in frames, but professionally framed with no easy way to remove them ...

So, I decided to carefully tape the glass and spray paint them just they way they were. I used the same primer and silver paint that I used on the starfish and they turned out great!!

It really changed the dated look, silver is the new brass!!

It's not a great photo, I put them in Laura's blue sea themed bathroom and the tans in the artwork tie in great with the new granite and the silver is fresh and clean.

For the love of spray paint!

We are right in the middle of garage sale season and I have found a few treasures this year. This weekend I found this starfish:

It is a lovely brass with a circle hook on the back. I paid $1. But, heart racing, I knew exactly what it was going to become!! I scrubbed it and primed it with metal spray paint primer:

The next step was shiny, silver spray paint:

It turned out according to plan, beautiful! Funny thing- later in the afternoon Karl and I were in Park City and found this display in a gift shop there. The price they had marked on their (much smaller) starfish was $30!! This is theirs:

And this is mine:

I'm pretty happy, I worked with brass pictures frames at the same time, they also turned out great...I still need to take the "after" pictures. Family will recognize the artwork that used to hang at grandmas Tobler's house for 30 years.. .(Next post)