The Espinoza Family Blog

With Christmas tomorrow, I’ve been putting off my project and spending my time with Isabel and Gino and not working on it.

Tonight Gino helped me bring it all together and it’ll be under the tree in the morning (hopefully)!

Trying to get the placement just right for the flowers.
Gino has an idea on how to get them attached to the frame (since I purchased the wrong frame).

I coated the flowers 6 times with the glitter paint just to make sure the were extra sparkly!
I love how they turned out!

Gino’s smarty idea was to add a dowel to the frame dip to get more surface area for the flowers and letters so they would stick! The flowers hide the dowel so well you can hardly tell it’s there.

We both decided that the silver glitter letters just didn’t work with the metal in the frame.
So I decided to paint them a matching color to the glitter and then I used the glitter paint to add the same sparkle as the flowers.

Working with placement for the letters.

Unfortunately I didn’t add the dowel, like Gino suggested and just went ahead and glued the letters down. They didn’t stick! As soon as Isabel opened the box, all the letters popped off! I was upset but she was cool with it and I told her I’d add the dowel and it would be all good. She also gets to pick out the ribbon that I will use to attach to the frame so she can remove the earrings easier.

When it’s finally complete, I’ll add a finished photo.