The hunt is over….

About 5 or 6 years ago, my step mom gave me a piece of oval convex glass.  She thought I might be able to do something with it someday.  It has been sitting between my couch and a wall (safest place where it wouldn’t get broken) in a bag, waiting for me to re-purpose it or find a frame to fit around it.

On a random Goodwill trip with Todd I hit the jackpot!  

They had just rolled out a cart.  You know the kind filled to the brim waiting for an employee to place the new random items on a half organized shelf. 

On this particular day, I spotted an oval antique frame (thinking this might be the one to fit my glass) from a distance, but before I could get to it, the Goodwill employee had already grabbed it and was headed for an isle. I had one customer in front of me and one behind me.  Both standing right in the middle of the isle with the carts. I was stuck! I didn’t feel right shouting out “Stop, that’s my frame” (although I wanted to).  So I watched the Goodwill employee pick it up and round the corner of an isle. The frame was out of sight. Since it was the weekend and the store was packed, I assumed that I would see it in some other person’s cart.  Easy come, easy go!

Then over the shoulder of this total stranger that was standing right in my way was my husband.  I looked up at him, gave him the nod and pointed to the isle he needed to go down.  He had read my mind and was off.  He came back around the corner, holding the prize! The beautiful antique oval frame.

You know how you just get a gut feeling.  I KNEW it would fit the glass.  

I hadn’t measured, I had no idea how big the glass was I just knew the frame would fit.  

Worst case, if it didn’t, I would re-purpose the frame. Besides…it was $4.99!  

How could I go wrong?

It was a bit beat up, but all was fixable.  A little touch-up with a sharpie marker and it would be good as new. 

Well, my gut was right! It was a P-E-R-F-E-C-T fit!  I couldn’t believe after 5 years, I had finally found a frame to fit this awesome convex glass. Now, what to put in the frame?

The obvious choice would be an antique portrait or print, but I didn’t  have anything that was large enough. Truth is, I didn’t want to wait to find anything to fit.  I wanted that baby on the wall so the glass wouldn’t get broken.  So I found a poster print at Hobby Lobby that I fell in love with. It reminds me of a trip my husband and I took to San Antonio on the River Walk!
Not antique, but still lovely!

Just a few touch ups with a sharpie!