Pretty Paper Frames

About six months ago my mum gave me some old family pictures from the '60s and '70s. Being both amazingly retro and featuring my lovely family, I loved them instantly and wanted to make them part of my decor ASAP.

Not wanting to cut the photos or damage them, I hunted around for cute frames. But a lot of the photos were odd sizes and I couldn't find frames to fit.

Then trawling through the ever fabulous Design*Sponge I found the answer to my problem and a quick easy way to make the old photos into a feature in my cottage: handmade brown paper frames.

I made a few little changes to the original instructions:

• I backed the frames with black paper, and cut the black a little bit larger than the frames on purpose to create an extra boarder around the brown paper.
• To protect the old photos, I also used clear Over Head Projector sheets (how very '90s of me!) between the black paper and the brown paper frame (like glass in a real frame).
• Unlike the lucky people at Design*Sponge I don't have a sticker maker to run the frames through, so I just used double sided tape to secure it all together.
• Admittedly my frames are not quite as polished as the original, but I was careful not to be too careful when creating them in order to give them a crude look and make them more dramatic.

This is my favourite, my parents in 1976 not long after they first met.

And I love these two as well, taken in the early '90s, Daddy's little girl, and Mummy's boy.

PS I did actually find a frame for this picture featuring two of my favourite women, Mum and Nana circa 1960.