Windows of Opportunity

Updated: Kelly's Show Us Your Life this week is Show Us What You Make. Everyone is showing their at home business. Fun!
I don't (yet) have an at home business, but I love to attempt crafts. I do a lot, but this is one people always tell me I should sell (especially the est. in ones). I don't plan on selling them, but you might want to! So for everyone looking for one more idea... Here's something easy to do with windows!



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Newly married and short on cash flow (we're both school teachers), I wanted to decorate but didn't have much to decorate with. My father-in-law is a window man and turns out, had a lot of old windows laying around. Those could be used for something..... The wheels started to turn.

Fast forward a couple years and the windows were used, and used, and used. Here are a few ways to use them:
I started out making Family Names est in... windows for friends getting married. I didn't take any pictures of any of them but did steal this photo off of the Brown's facebook page. You can see the window above their fireplace and doesn't she look adorable??

I never made an Est. window for our own home, instead we have our last initial above our fireplace.
We also have this window hanging in our home (above a guest bed). It is the scripture used at our wedding and hung in the front of the church.


Want a window that you can change the message on? Just paint it with chalkboard paint instead!

The magnet board may be my favorite way to use the old windows. I first made one because I had a beautifully painted "Merry Christmas" window leaning against the wall waiting to be hung. My every so jolly goldendoodle bounced right into and shattered the glass. Not wanting to waste the red crackled frame, I put in a tin sheet and presto, instant Christmas card holder. Or year round photo holder. Or Birthday display board. Or... 'you decide what to put on it' holder (Note the ever changing chalkboard window).



The windows of opportunity are vast. Oooh and it's so "green." ;)