Thanks Arlene. I finally found a couple of websites & blogs with directions, and went to Hobby Lobby last night to buy the mats & cutter. But the lady who worked there told me they use a razor blade, so I didn't buy the cutter. The mats turned out great, but now I can't figure out how to secure everything in the frame without buying a point driver. If I thought I would be doing this a lot, I would buy a point driver, but for a cheap picture, it isn't worth it. Originally, the pic was secured by staples, but my staple gun doesn't get close enough to do any good. So that is what I'm working on now.

I got 2 of my favorite pictures framed at Michaels and I too am a matchy matchy person. The manager is a friend and when I was looking at frames he said you need to look at each picture individually and frame it with what matches the picture. So I have a set that goes together but the frames are totally different. And they look great :) I do think though that you need to like the frame or else you won't like any of it. Now on my family picture wall I have a mix of different black frames and silver frames. I think you do what you like and it will be perfect :) Good luck.

Cover some cheap paper mache boxes and make hat boxes out of them Cover books, mats for picture framing, cut pieces out and decoupage on boxes, frame one of the more interesting pieces for an unsual art piece.... I once saw on a decorating show where they took some antique wallpaper and used it on just one wall of a room, then framed it to look like a huge picture Doll house interiors Lining dresser drawers or shelves in a display case Use in a scrapbook as decorative paper for photos, etc. Laminate and use as placemats Framing material for small oldfashioned family pictures Cover an old trunk with paper Cut out the part that you like, a focal of the design, a complementary shape, or out of a tight pattern you can do cut-outs of shapes (cars, houses, geese, flower shapes ...) and paste them up in nice focal places.

I think white tile- penny is nice. I love a white bath. Or the sharpness of black and white. Colored and strongly patterned tiles date a bath quickly. Think gray and pink baths from the 50s. or avocado or harvest gold from the 70s. Do a big splash of color with shower curtains, towels or wall paint. Even a painted vanity is going to be easier to change out than changing a bunch of tile down the road. When I bought my first house it was a tiny tract house that had been built in 1968. The neighbors on one side had avocado green tile in the bath and the neighbors on the other side had harvest gold. I had white. My oldest neighbor had been there since the homes were new and she told me when they were being built it was $10 more for colored tile. I was grateful the original owners of my house had been too cheap to spring for colored tile!