DIY: Basic Driftwood Frame

You should've seen my suitcase coming home from both Lake Erie and Lake Michigan this year! Full of lake glass, drift wood and birch bark that I scavenged off of the beaches and side of the road. Call me crazy- I call it resourceful. :D 'Cause not only do I love repurposing things and being challenged creatively by items, I love it when it costs me nada!

The sea glass {and a few special pieces of driftwood} I'm letting be simple decoration-- no plans to use them for projects. But I've had several ideas for using the rest of the driftwood and that beautiful birch.

You might have seen the first finished item -this headband- and now I'm going to share another simple idea. A driftwood/backyard-twig basic frame. The end result will vary depending on what you want to use it for. Originally I was going to make mine a photo frame or piece of art but when the lace from an old skirt caught my eye, all ideas went out the window except one:) Earing holder! {nevermind that I've yet to get around to piercing my ears... I have several sets of earings thanks to Daddy and friends that could use a prettier holder than a drawer!}

I made this just with things I had laying around so I'm going to challenge you to do the same. Get creative and repurpose things! Maybe you'll use ribbon instead of twine... or fabric instead of lace. {You should have no problem finding some twigs in your back yard!}

All you need for the basic frame is semi-thick sticks & twine or other string. Lay your sticks in the shape of a frame with the two horizontal sticks lying on top of the vertical sticks. It might be helpful to hot glue the points where they overlap to make it easier to wrap the twine. Tightly wrap the string criss-cross around the point where two of the sticks overlap as many times as you like. Tie off. Do this for each corner. 

And then here's where you get creative and take it whichever direction you like! Tie on lace, ribbon, thick twine, fabric, etc to hang things from. Or hot glue a doily {cut to size} to the back. Or lash more sticks on horizontally to hang things from. Or make a photo frame. So many possibilities! And now that I have so many ideas running through my mind, I'm definitely going to have to make more!
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