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A long time ago I saw a little book about lots of fun things to make with moulding bits and pieces, but didn't buy it. I am now looking for it again. Does anyone have any idea where I get something like this?

Thanks soooooo much
 
You can do some of your own creative ideas as offshoots from those you find in your book.

I have used two old frames to make a bird aviery,
single frames for dog gates, smaller frames to put over registers, so you can stack stuff on part of them, a frame on the wall with screw eyes all around it to hang neclaces on. However, I guess those are whole frames instead of pieces.

For pieces, Jana made butterfies (with frame pieces as bodies), to show off some of our mouldings.
 
I'm glad you mentioned those Purp. I had forgotten that, when I worked at the old part-time, we made some trays from a dead frame, 2 pieces of glass, and some mushed up Christmas balls sandwiched between the glass. Folks ate them up.
 
Reverse moulding frames with mirror(fully supported underneath) make great candle trays for the center of a table etc.
 
I attened a class with Vivian where she showed all sorts of things that could be made from PICTURE FRAME moulding ( Includeing but not limited to a mirrored Tie rack cabinet).
The only disagrement I had was with another instructor who suggested that this was agreat thing to do with SCRAPS.A point that I think Vivian made very clear.
I don't know about you but where I come from even a small object box( 6X9 top,42UI and 9X12,58UI bottom)takes much more then what I can call scraps.Also the type of moulding normally used is on the upper end price wise.The box mentioned sold for $135 after lineing it with sueds mats.Nice sale but far from scrap useageIMHO.LOL
BUDDY
PS an extremley good example of my point was a Cigar Humidor shown in Roma's booth that sold for thousands of $.
 
Hi Buddy,

I have posted quite a number of "projects" on the Grumble that I have made from moulding scraps. these include business card holders, candy dishes, post-it notes boxes, lidded boxes, and shelves. All of these ideas started out their lives as scrap moulding. As I sold more and more of them, certain types of wood became more popular than others and became more in demand. THEN I began to buy in length to make a certain quantity to fill the demand for these boxes.

None of my boxes are priced over $100.00. I established the prices for many of them by posting them for sale on eBay. The concensus of bidding on these items then became the selling price. An example, the business card holders made from LJ 401603 mahogany moulding and the matching accessory box from LJ 604603 mahogany were made and priced the following way:

The business card holder was made from approximately 16 inches of leftover moulding. They are lined with suede and I received bids on them on eBay that ranged from $18.00 to $29.00 so I set a price for them in my gallery at $25.95 (slightly higher on my website.)

I did the same thing with the candy dish or accessory box that was made out of the larger moulding. It took about 32" of moulding and I finally priced it at $39.95.

The matching set sells for $59.95. I sold a number of these boxes for Christmas gifts this season and probably turned a bigger profit per dollar invested than for any other item in my gallery. The excess moulding was already accounted for in whatever framing job from which it was left over.

Please go to my website if you have some free time and click on "Executive Accessories" to go to the section where I have pictured some of the boxes that I make here at Touch the Wild. I really would appreciate your feedback on them, Buddy. I know that you are very thorough in your thoughts and will give me an honest opinion on them.

Framerguy
 
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