Expense break down for art project

Goodie, goodie, I'm glad you asked Georgia!

I forgot to mention the most important part of yesterday's post. The reason we chose to build the frames (other than as a pure exercise in learning to be patient - whoops! Failed there!) is because at a hobby store, frames that size cost around $30 each. 

Our costs:

Fabric: about $4 at Wal-Mart.

Frames: 1X2 at home improvement store for a song - $2-ish?

Tacks: $.97 each box - we bought 2.

Primer: we had leftover in basement but white spray paint would work also, about $5 a can? I'm guesstimating here.

Paint: $2 a bottle at Wal-Mart.

We used paintbrushes we already had, but again $2 apiece or so.

For us, the entire project cost $12 because we already had some of the materials in Bud's shop. That's $6 a frame. If you were starting from scratch you could do everything for about $25, which is $12.50 a frame. And lots of cursing, but you already knew that.  

Also! I mixed black and white paint together to achieve the gray, that way I had four colors for the price of three. SHEESH I am good at this home economics thing!

Comments

[ga]

i love to see my name in print...le sigh.

thanks, good to know, nice and cheap, and theoretically you could also purchase thicker fabric to avoid the necessity of the primer.

xo