Gallery wall

Yesterday I posted a Decorated Cross that I made to add to my gallery wall. Well, here is the gallery wall!

This entire wall of art cost me less than $30!! Here's the breakdown:


1- clock, purchased at BigLots for $12
2-Picture of my in-siblings and niece, gift, $0
3- Painting by my husbands grandma, $0
4- Art my husband had $0
5- A framed card in a frame I had $0
6- A picture of my sister and I $-0
7- Signlanguage alphabet (made by me) in a frame purchased for $4
8- A drawing by my father, frame cost $6
9- Packaging from a Dickies shirt, frame cost $4
10- Decorated cross, $3
11- A drawing my husband had, $0
12- Wedding photo of my husbands parents, $0
13- Art from Thailand (souvenier from my uncle), $0
14- A painting by my best friend in a frame I had, $0
15- A painting I bought at goodwill for 50 cents!!! $.50

Here's a closeup of #7-

And a closeup of #5

Decorated Cross

I purchased this unfinished cross at Walmart for less than $3 to fill a hole in my gallery wall... ( yes, I have a gallery wall... I know how "trendy" they are, but I put one up to save money on decoration costs! I basically used as many pieces of artwork of mine and my husbands that I could find and suplemented those with some other inexpensive pieces and some that I made! Like this one...)

I painted it brown, and used mod podge to glue a thrifted map to the top layer. (The map was not a normal city map, and I'm not sure where it was for, but it had foreign sounding names. I bought two at goodwill for 99cents each!)

And I used some gold glitter glue around the outer edge to add some sparkle, and to help it pop a little.

Americana Trinket Shelf (or Junk Drawer Art)

Both my spare bedroom and bathroom are americana themed. The bedroom was easy to decorate, but the bathroom had me stumped. I had the red shower curtain, and some easy to sew decorated towels , but there wasn't much wall space to work with as far as hanging art. I purchased a small, unfinished trinket shelf at my local dollar store and painted it navy blue. And it sat waiting for inspiration  as to what to fill it with. My first thought was to make some tiny art squares to put in each space, but that didn't work out so well. So I dug through my stash of whimsies (read: junk) and pulled out as many red, white, silver and tan trinkets I could find. I used broken jewelry, old game peices, buttons, and other bits I had floating around. I started by arranging them in the squares and rearranging as needed to make them look nice, then I hot-glued them into place. Ta-da! Easy, and cute artwork for the bathroom! Total cost was $1.00 for the shelf, all the other materials I had on hand!

Here is is with the other small art piece my husband found for me at goodwill.