for the badminton rackets: perfect for someone decorating a boy's room in a sport theme. you need to add a birdie or two

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Great idea! 😊

My mom was watching the news the other night while we talked on the phone. She was telling me about tornadoes in Wisconsin. I was like Lord take care of Sonnet. ❤❤❤ I try to watch the lives, but I'm at work. It's tax season so we are covered up. I don't hardly ever get to comment but I try to participate. It was really sweet your nephew got to help out. That was sweet. B

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Awe Charlotte I appreciate that so much! Thank you for looking out for me. ❤😊

Love the rackets, eggs, and basket!!!❤

So glad you kept the handles on the basket it looks great!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

I am too! 😊

100% applaud your use of the eggshell color without any dark wax or distressing on the frame for the chicks. It's such a clear, uncomplicated, refreshing spring look!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

I agree Gina! Sometimes you just gotta leave things without distressing or making them look older! 😊

So glad you rescued the basket ❤❤❤

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Tracy! 😊

I love everything you do 🥰I like the lives

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Maryellen!

Yes, good fix Thank you for sharing your craft.

Absolutely love the eggs picture!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Good fix , I love old baskets

Love all your redos. Thanks for sharing.

I loved all these projects today! I especially loved the sheet music and eggs! I have a ton of old newspapers and vintage music sheets. I can't wait to start something today!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Sheryl! 😊

Great fix on the basket! Such a cool piece!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Ruth!😊

These are great techniques you share whether or not we use those particular colors, etc.- Thank you!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Lydia! 😊

The basket was a great save.❤

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Joni!😊

Sooo cute, definitely dark wax on the frame and around chickies, but still adorable!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Rosalinda! 😊

Hey girl … I love the “chitty chats”😁 and love watching you! I’m learning SO much. I’ll admit, some channels I have to turn off the sound for various reasons😬 but yours? Not a chance!😃🤩👍❤

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate that Irene! Thank you so much!☺️

Love the basket w fixed handle!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Lorraine! 😊

Looooove! The eggs! Doing it next weekend!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Marcia! 😊

I like all your work, Sonnet. Nice job on all

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! ☺️

Love everything. For the frame with the chicks, yes, I would use some dark wax🌻🌻🌻🦋🦋🦋🙏

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Rosie! 😊

I love how you made the mat for the picture. I like more muted colors so I probably would have painted the frame differently.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Tina! 😊

Your basket looks fabulous! Such a great find and upcycle! I always pick up rackets when I find them. They are super cute hung as frames with cabinet cards clipped to them.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Great idea for the rackets! 😊

Love the mat on the picture! ❤

I have hundreds of sheets of music from the turn of the century (early 1900’s) from my grandfather and never knew what to do with them🧐🤗

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

That’s amazing! 🤩

I think the basket came out great! I actually liked all the projects. I don’t think the egg picture needed anything else and the color you painted the chick frame looked great to me. It is always fun to see what you come up with.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Sue! 😊

I would have gotten the badminton rackets and taped the grip area rather than painting them. Like others I would stage them with a couple of birdies. OMG, those egg transfers look 3D on that sheet music....very cool. Nice work!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Lynn!😊

I’d buy the rackets for a mountain home decor ….. everything is sports there😊

I'd add white wax on the chuck frame but dark wax would look good too!!

for the chicks: yes the frame needs some kind of accent color, it's too matte. my thoughts: a strip of color on one of the grooves, your idea of the dark wax, distressed or a touch of gold gilding wax

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the ideas! 😊

Great fix on the basket 🧺 ❤

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Darlene!😊

That is SO cool. I never knew how to make a mat🤓

love the rower art in blue frame.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Ruth! 😊

Great idea using scrapbook paper to make a new frame......Love the picture....Great projects love the way they all turned out!!!!!!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Jackie!😊

@jackielucchesi6654

4 ай бұрын

@@SonnetsGardenBlooms Yvw Sonnet!!!

All are so lovely! Love the colors and the worn looks! Tfs Sonnet! Grateful for your videos and always glad to see whenever you post! ❤🎉

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!☺️

The vintage basket looks great with the weathered wood color. They do mak wood strips that you can use to reinforce the handles.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Katie!😊

The chicks are perfect! Glad you didn't put wax on it. It looks so springy. The basket was great too. Actually, all of the projects were great. I can't believe it has been almost three years. I started following you from the very beginning. You had just done a couple of videos. And look how far you have come. You just keep getting better and better, Sonnet! You deserve all of your followers and more. I know you will just keep growing. Your creativity and your personality are both so inviting. They just draw us in. Thank you for bringing such joy and inspiration to us all! You are the best, Sonnet!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Awe thank you so much Sandi! I appreciate you staying with me from the beginning! That means a lot! 😊

I loved everything today! The frame with the chicks looked great! I thought if you wanted to do more with it that a white wax would have been pretty. The other ones with the boaters and the eggs were both awesome too. Also thanks for the tutorial on fixing the basket handle.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Diane!😊

Great fix!

Loved all your projects today!!! I love ❤️ your creativity!!!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Dawn!😊

For the chicks in the frame... I personally would have added white or dark wax (or possibly both which I tend to be doing a lot lately - I just really love the look of both together) to the frame & wiped it back. I also would have gotten out my crafting toothbrush & and added "fly specks" to the music sheet that you decoupaged the chicks on to tie the two together 😊 I may have even possibly used my water brush (that's what I use when organically cutting an image out of paper - it basically does exactly what you did by dipping your paint brush into water to cut out the chicks but the brushes I use actually hold that water in them) & cut the white area between the chicks legs out. However, I honestly think it turned out absolutely beautiful the way you have it 😍❤️

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Amber!😊

That basket was DEFINITELY far too beautiful to lose its handles!! 😊 And the charcoal colored paint with a little distressing looked like it was made that way! A+, as usual.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Ellzee! Cool name! 😊

Love all the projects!!! ❤

The badminton racquets would look nice in a kids room or a mud room, etc.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Those are perfect places for those. Maybe even a game room!😊

Sports equipment always makes great decor and these look great!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Everything is so beautiful! They look amazing! Love the chicks. And the basket! ❤❤❤and all the rest! 😅😂

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊

I for 1 enjoy the chit chat on your lives. Lol

Hello Sonnet! Wow, these are beautiful! Since you asked, yes, I think some dark wax on the chick frame would give it some dimension. Good luck with your new internet. Take care😊

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Terri!😊

Oh yes I would have picked up the rackets, they bring back good memories! I like your ideas because they get me motivated. Thanks so much for sharing.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Patty!😊

Great flips!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Hi Sonnet! I loved all of them! The badminton rackets are too cool! I don't know if I would have bought them, but your ability to spot a diamond in the rough is better than mine! They turned out great! Everything did! You did a good job fixing the basket handle also! I love your trash to treasure videos! :-)

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Jamie!😊

The basket is absolutely gorgeous.. wonderful repair 😊

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Andrea!😊

Yes dark wax would enhance the frame a lot.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

I just wanted to try something a little different with that frame. I distress most of my projects, so getting out of my comfort zone is good I think! 😊

OMG, I opened the video and the first thing I see is the Eakins painting of the rowers! I had that in my sons room when he was growing up and in the same brown frame with white border! LOL! Love what you did with it!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing that. 😊

Awesome fix on the basket😎👍

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

You did a great repair on the basket handles. I liked the way you did the aging effect. Very attractive!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Atarah!😊

They look great, Sonett! I love the chicks, but I do think you should wax it, I think white would look good since the colors are pastel. You fixed that break really well, it's pretty camouflaged. See ya this afternoon if your internet is willing.❤

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Stephanie!😊

Loved all of these. My favorites were all the frame flips. Have a great weekend Sonnet.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Lisa! 😊

Yes, I would totally have bought the raquets! Eye catching! With the chick picture I would be obsessing about the white between the legs and wonder if leaving that area unpainted would take care of it. The background would show through some and make it less obvious?

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

I guess that might work, or I could have used water to tear out that part. I wasn’t really thinking about that at the time I was making it. 😊

I love the format you are doing for your live episodes!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Linda!😊

Perfect fix for the basket handles 🙌🩷

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Angela! 😊

Inspiring!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

A little white wax or dark wax or gold accent would pop the frame on the chicks picture. The tag really completed it. Was thinking a little distress on the racket handles would look good as the rest of it is chippy.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Joy! I appreciate the ideas! 😊

Would like to see more decorative "functional" craft products versus decorative crafts.

@Laura_G

4 ай бұрын

What is a functional craft? I can't visualize what that would be.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

I’ll take that into consideration. Thank you. 😊

I think a dark wax would bring out the dark of the notes of the music paper! Love it though!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Karen!😊

I love the picture of the chicks the blue frame is really bright for my taste but if that sells in your area you would know better than me.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

That’s the beauty of paint, if it doesn’t sell, repaint and try again! 😂

I was just thinking of you Sonnet but don’t think you’re live? It’s 9am here in SC🤭I was just thinking of you after seeing the tornado in Wisconsin last night🫢💓

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Good morning!! We are okay in our area…no tornadoes here. Thank goodness!! That was down south. Thank you for thinking of me!! ❤️

Excellent

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Christie! 😊

I like your tutorial videos

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!😊

Yes i would have picked up the rackets

Sonnet, so many questions. I don’t like flat finish what can I put on as a top coat with the slightest sheen to it? Do you carry a sample pack of testers? Or do you have to buy them separately? And is there a product you can put on the baskets (like the one you did in this video) that nourishes the basket fibers so they don’t fall apart? Love your ideas. I have several tennis rackets and badminton rackets. Wondering what else you will stage with them? I’m buying a new (1920) house with lots of rooms. Would like to make one welcoming to my grandsons.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Hi Debra, you can use DIY Big Top for a sealer with a slight sheen to it. At this time, I do not have a sample pack of testers. I use a clear furniture wax to nourish any kind of wood product. I have some from the DIY and Fusion product lines on my website. 😊 Here is the link if you’re interested: www.sonnetsgardenblooms.com

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Repaired Basket... Adorable.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Elaine!😊

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The Rowers by Winslow Homer, isn’t it?

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QUESTION: where can i get the paper with the animals?? ❤

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

On my website: www.sonnetsgardenblooms.com/product/baby_animals_decoupage_paper_-_roycycled_spring_2023_release/

I like what you have done to the rowing picture, except I now can’t see the description at the bottom of the picture. As the wife of a rower, that’s the bit that interests me first, and then the picture that is just a personal thing. Prince around is so much better than the white one. I think the little chicks with the happy Easter is perfect as is. What do you think it would look like if you had painted wood around the top and the bottom of the basket and then heavily distressed as you did the handles? Would that have brought cohesion to the peace or do you think it would’ve been too much? I really enjoyedthis video as I do all of your videos.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Deborah. 😊 I could have painted the basket, but I was trying to do something a little different since I paint a lot of baskets. 😊

Nix on the blue frame though😏😬

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

That’s ok, it’s not for everyone. 😊

I would have wrapped the handles

Cute chicks but I think a dark wax would have made it more “vintage”.😊

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

It definitely would have made it more vintage. I wanted to leave it as is, since most of my projects are distressed. 😊

Great projects ❤. My fav is the Easter 🐣 picture. Your work is always beautifully transformed! Thanks for sharing your talents!!

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Margaret!😊

I like the mat on that picture, but not the bright blue frame.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

That’s ok Lorraine! That color blue isn’t for everyone! 😊

Not sure why my name (Irene LaPointe) doesn’t always show up🤷‍♀️

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

I’m not sure why. 🤷‍♀️

Sorry, hate the blue frame.

@SonnetsGardenBlooms

4 ай бұрын

No need to be sorry! Everyone has their own opinion and style! 😊

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