the key to my heart...

Okay, cheesy title, but I needed to make a filler for my wall since I decided to go ahead and break my plates. Didn't go to yard sales this past weekend (are you proud of me??) so I went ahead and shopped the house...

I found a ring of old keys I found at a random yard sale this winter that my kids love to play jail and zoo with. They love the klinkety sounds of the keys, so I took three off and left two to jingle. We'll see if they notice...

Another framed yard sale picture ($1) I was going to use to make a chalkboard with, but I'm going to use it here instead.
Take them out to my workshop, a.k.a my garage with an old carpet remnant on the ground. The carpet serves 2 purposes: soak up oil from our little old car my husband drives and my spray paint center.

The frame is perfect, don't need to touch that. Spray paint the keys black and when they are fairly dry, I take a fine sandpaper and gently let some of the gold show through to make them look nice and old:

Set the glass and the picture aside, cut the paper to fit the frame, hot glue the paper to the back of the frame:

It looks great just like that, but we're going to add our keys...

Hot glue them on, and there you have it.

Who needs pretty white plates when you've got cool grungy keys in a frame??

You see what it's sitting on? The top of my washing machine is my glue gun center.

Now, back to the title~how cool would this be to frame an old key and give to your dearest one with a note attached that says..."to the one that holds the key to my heart." You could make it all manly with some burlap fabric for the background.

My husband is shaking his head.

OK, what if the guy tied some bling to one of the keys with a cool ribbon with the same note?

And then proposed??

I'm going to sell the rights to the movie...you saw it here first.

Kimm over at Reinvented is having her Trash to Treasure Tuesday~go see what other people are turning their finds into...
Happy Tuesday...