Framing a Masterpiece

This painting is hanging in my kitchen over my farm table...

It is very special to me because my oldest daughter painted it.

It was a gift for my 50th birthday....

Not only is it special because 
she painted it for me,

but the painting is of my father's hands...

My daughter painted the picture on masonite so it was not easy to hang.  I repurposed these curtain tie backs, screwed into the studs, and it's been hanging there for a 
couple of years now...

Today I decided it needed a deserving frame

and luckily I just picked up this old wooden bench from the side of the road. 

The bench was a disaster but some of the 

old wood was very salvageable...

I pulled it apart and measured the picture for the frame on the basement floor...

I used an L bracket to join the corners, 

then nailed the picture to the back of the frame.

This picture is a little blurry, I'm still working on my camera settings in dim light...

Some of my favorite parts of the frame are the things that give it character... 

The holes from when it was once a bench...

And the metal plate that was on the front of the bench.

So today I framed a masterpiece....

A beautiful picture of 

my Dad's strong hands...

painted by my artist daughter, 

and framed by me.