http://LloydDobsonArtist.com How to decorate your home with affordable art is easy. Decorating your new home with art doesn't have to mean an expensive trip to your local gallery. Collecting art can be an expensive habit, but these days there are plenty of places to get amazing original art for a great price. Whether you like prints, fine art oil paintings or abstract collage, we've got a source for you. The Siesta Key Farmers Market is a Sunday morning tradition since 2008 from 8am to 2pm, the Siesta Key Farmers Market offers a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, fine art by artist Vanessa Simonard and Lloyd Dobson, Jamaican prepared foods and pastries, hot breakfast, organic green tea, local plants, Italian olive oils, artisan breads, organic skin care products, clothing, jewelry, photography, pottery, and live music. For additional affordable art visit the following online website galleries: http://www.LloydDobsonArtist.com http://www.VanessaSarasota.blogspot.com Below are some additional ideas. The key to decorating on a budget is to think laterally. This guide aims to give you some ideas. 1) Family Frame Sometimes it helps to think outside the frame. We turned this divided window into a frame perfectly scaled for over the sofa. Sand, prime, and repaint a salvage-yard window, then fit a precut mat and a favorite photo into each opening. Keep them in place with framer's glazing points (find them at crafts stores). We added a vintage knob to give our new artwork old-fashioned character.

1. How To Decorate
Your Home With
Affordable Art

2. How to decorate your home with
affordable art is easy. Decorating
your new home with art doesn't have
to mean an expensive trip to your
local gallery. Collecting art can be an
expensive habit, but these days there
are plenty of places to get amazing
original art for a great price. Whether
you like prints, fine art oil paintings
or abstract collage, we've got a source
for you.

3. The Siesta Key Farmers Market is a
Sunday morning tradition since 2008
from 8am to 2pm, the Siesta Key
Farmers Market offers a wide variety
of fresh fruits and vegetables, fine art
by artist Vanessa Simonard and Lloyd
Dobson, Jamaican prepared foods
and pastries,

4. hot breakfast, organic green tea,
local plants, Italian olive oils, artisan
breads, organic skin care products,
clothing, jewelry, photography,
pottery, and live music.

5. For additional affordable art visit the
following online website galleries:
www.LloydDobsonArtist.com
www.VanessaSarasota.blogspot.com

6. Here are some additional
ideas. The key to decorating
on a budget is to think
laterally. This guide aims to
give you some ideas.

7. 1) Family Frame
Sometimes it helps
to think outside the
frame. We turned
this divided window
into a frame
perfectly scaled for over the sofa.
Sand, prime, and repaint a salvage-
yard window, then fit a precut mat

8. and a favorite photo into each
opening. Keep them in place with
framer's glazing points (find
them at crafts stores). We added a
vintage knob to give our new
artwork old-fashioned character.

9. 2) Curate Your
Blooms
You'd be surprised
how beautiful close-
up photos of flowers
can be--even the
snapshots you take
with your own
digital camera.

10. Take your favorite flower images to
your local photo center. Have them
enlarged to enhance the details, and
ask that they be printed on canvas,
rather than photo paper. Crisp white
frames make these pretty petals pop,
but you could simply stretch the
canvases over frames for a modern
edge.

11. 3) Measure Up
You can scoop up old
rulers--some with
cool retro logos--for
a few bucks. These
bird prints, cut from
the pages of a dime-
store book,

12. match the old-fashioned vibe.
We used wood glue to affix the
rulers to cheap wooden frames.
The rulers are applied
differently on each frame to
keep things interesting.

13. 4) Magnetic
Attraction
A message center can
be a lifesaver for on-
the-go families. This
project takes that
concept a step
further.

14. Rather than one boring
bulletin board, the entire wall
is coated in four coats of
magnetic primer and a top coat
of yellow. This way the even the
littlest members of the family
can contribute artwork and
special notes.

15. DIY Tip: We love this idea for a
work space or crafts room, as
well. Instead of an inspiration
board for your latest projects,
you could have an entire wall
of inspiration!

16. 5) Jewel Box
If jewelry looks
dazzling on you, it
makes sense that it
could dress up walls,
too.

17. We bought cheap thrift-store
frames and backed them with
fiberboard covered in pretty
paper. We used old cabinet knobs
and pushpins to hang necklaces
and bracelets. For earrings, we
secured two lengths of ribbon
horizontally across a frame, using
thumbtacks to reinforce it.

18. Earrings dangle from the
ribbon. Even brooches and
pins have a home here. We
backed one frame with
corkboard, so pins slide in
easily. No more digging
through cluttered drawers for
the pearls--it's grab and go.

19. 5) Natural Instincts
These are not your 4-
year-old's sun-
catchers. Our
sophisticated project
brings refined
outside style to
inside spaces.

20. We plucked single leaves from a
hosta, fern, caladium, and palm,
then sandwiched them between
framed panels of glass. (You can
find the frames at crafts stores.)
Cup hooks screw inconspicuously
to the window trim, and the
frames dangle from eye hooks via
thin chains.

21. DIY Tip: Swap out the leaves
every few weeks when they
begin to brown. For a long-
lasting display, use dried leaves
coated with acrylic artist's
spray to prevent discoloration.

22. We invite you to stop by the
Siesta Key Farmers Market and
say hello or visit our website at
www.SiestaKeyBlueWave.com
for the latest happening on
Siesta Key.

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