My grandmother passed away last year (God bless her sweet sweet soul) and my sister and I split her many many sets of beautiful silver. Some sets were fully matched, and then there were some random stragglers like these...
These guys were just destined to become kitchen artwork (they told me themselves)... and here's how I did it!
To start with, these were in some serious need of a good cleaning. Since I didn't have silver polish handy, I used the next best thing...
Yep, that's right. I washed my grandmother's silver with Comet. And it worked wonderfully!
A little water, a little Comet, and look how pretty!
All cleaned and purdy. Yes, there's a new one in this picture from the last. One was in the Comet cleaning bowl when I took the first picture.
So I bought some shadow box frames from Hobby Lobby for half off not too long ago, and some scrapbook paper, and I covered the inside backing of the frames with this paper...
And it makes the perfect background for silverware artwork!
All I did was take a tiny bead of hot glue to the back of each piece and stuck it on the backing. Do I recommend everyone hot glue their grandmother's silver to the back of a shadowbox frame? No, not really. Did it work for me? Yes!
Then I just popped the backs back into their frames, used my favorite Halcyon Green to accent the frames, and voila!
Finished product!
I decided to hang these on the only real wall in my kitchen, and it just adds a cute little touch that was definitely missing before!
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