Displaying Collections

vintage silhouettes

Many years ago I found myself interested in these vintage silhouettes.They were collected over time at thrift stores and antique sales, and I decided I needed some way to display them. The frame was made with bead board and a stretcher frame. Earlier I had picked up a lot of wood corner pieces at a garage sale and glued 4 of them on to cover where the corners met.  It has worked well and makes the pictures easier to move. All in all it was a very inexpensive way to showcase this collection.

The only problem now is that my collection has grown so much that I may have to figure out a way to display many more.

vintage silhouettes

A lot of the silhouettes are reverse painting on glass and in some cases the original frame and backing were missing. For the ones below my husband took pictures in our yard and we re-framed them with the pictures as backing.

I definitely don't intend to get any more of these but do find some of them hard to resist. Hopefully I will come up with a way to display the whole collection in an innovative way. 

Inexpensive gifts

Silhouettes

Here is something that anyone with a camera, computer and printer can do and makes a nice present for parents.

In any photo application you can probably fill in the profile pictures you take with black and make the background whatever colour you like.  I used photoshop elements and the pages app to set up my pages.

My grandkids were very cooperative in letting me take several pictures of them until I got the ones I wanted.

I then had each of them write their names and ages,which I then took pictures of as well. In pages it was easy to make it look like a label. 

I did not take a picture of the final framed product but a simple black  frame seemed best.

The only cost for this present is a little bit of ink and it is so easy to find nice inexpensive frames.

Why not try it yourself?