Pinterest craft #2 - Wall Hanging Hanger

My original Pinterest project for this week got postponed due to rain, so I did something else.  Yay productivity!  And it wasn't even a direct Pinterest descendant...it's Pinterest-once-removed.  Let me 'splain you.

Here's the original pin.

My sister made an amazing "Grandkids" display for my parents and her in-laws for Christmas, and made me this adorable display of my own baby (and her cuties) as a surprise.

Surprise cuteness!

It was too cute to just hang on a plain old nail.  Even a painted nail.

Andy has discovered the "funness" of browsing through second hand building materials shops, and he's got me on a kick too.  There are several around Seattle, and our favorite so far is Second Use.  We picked out a drawer pull ($1) and an old brass escutcheon (the plate that goes around a door knob or a keyhole...they used to be fancy) ($12).

I cleaned it, and primed it with Martha Stewart's Metal Primer. I used a sponge brush and painted it all over with Black DecoArt Americana Gloss Enamel paint.

I might have used a USPS box as a painting platform.

I followed that up with a coat of Shimmer Silver DecoArt Dazzing Metallic paint.

Blackish-silvery. New-old.

Finally, I gently sponged White DecoArt Americana Gloss Enamel paint on the raised filigree on the escutcheon. (Don't you want to just write it again and again and again?  Escutcheon!  Escutcheon!)

I mounted the painted escutcheon (last time, I promise) on a small piece of craft plywood, painted with a lovely desert turquoise DecoArt Americana acrylic paint and "distressed" with white.

Not too shabby, but definitely shabby chic.

I screwed the drawer pull on where the doorknob would have belonged.  And...voila!  A picture hanger cute enough to hang my sister's gift upon!

Adorable, if I do say so myself.

What do you think?  Etsy worthy?

UPDATE:  Here's the whole thing a-hangin' on the wall!

Two great crafts that taste great together.