concretenprimroses Kathy, You should try your hand at welding. It isn't that hard with a wire welder. You can rent one to try it out first before you buy one. My husband bought me a Lincoln wire welder and I have made a couple of little pot trellises. The worst thing about it is I keep wanting to raise the welding hood to see things better. And the metal at a metal supply place is really cheap and can be cut with a grinder. Maybe I need to get my welder warmed up as well. I don't know what my problem is this year...I have a heated garage but everytime I start a project it seems I am missing some supply and don't want to get cleaned up to go to town to get it. Just the blah winter blues, I guess. Regina

Leaves If you still have them consider putting them on Craig's List free, you should have no trouble avoiding adding to a landfill.

Are you advertising or asking? very unusual piece....no idea how old nor what it may be worth. Linda C

WOW --- some gorgeeeeous examples in these photos!!! Over the years I've experimented several times with 'aging' a cheapy print. The technique I ended up liking best (and was the easiest. lol) is the one using clear spray sealer. Please, please keep in mind ----Below might not be the proper way but for me, after experimenting, I found it to be the easiest and most consistent-looking. I used a box cutter and cut a couple large pieces of cardboard then taped them together, quite a bit larger than the print. Now I had a large flat surface where I could use bulletin board push pins to secure the four corners of the print. (My last print had been rolled up so long that I ended up having to re-roll it in the opposite direction and leave it wrapped with rubber band for a couple days.) I used Krylon Clear Spray and lightly, very lightly went over the whole print, holding my hand/spray can a little over a foot above the print and using a sweeping motion with the spray. Once dry I went over it very lightly a second time. This seals the print, keeps the colors from running when combined with a water base antiquing, and really helps with mistakes if you've put too much antiquing on an area of the print---it's much easier to wipe off with damp cloth. Any brand 2 oz. Acrylic craft paint in brown---depending on the aging you want you'll get a lighter or darker brown. Any brand 2 oz. sealer in Matte or Satin (sealers will look white in the bottle & no higher than a Satin sheen as anything shinier will show every boo-boo) Mix one part brown to 3 parts sealer in paper cup. With a chippy brush do a slip-slop stroke and brush the brown onto the print. With a damp terrycloth rag, start wiping off the brown in either a wiping/cleaning form or a pouncing form. Pouncing will give you lots of faux 'texture' and wiping will give an all-over aging appearance. If you want more of the aging removed, go over it again with a cloth that is a bit damper (damper? lol). For more 'texture' I used Liquitex Matte Gel Medium--adding a blob of it to the paper cup and instead of slip-slopping the mixture on the print I used brush strokes, like using crayons to color in the lines. Let the print dry completely while it's still attached to the cardboard (I left mine a whole day on the dining room table) Because you added the brown craft paint to a craft sealer there will be no need to seal the print after the aging has dried. Done.