Decoupaging and Painting up a Storm for a very special reason!

Here are all 18 of our grandchildren.  They have become so special in our lives.  I think we will be staring at this wall lots during each day.  How can we help it!
And this morning as I was finishing up this wall,  my husband and I could not stop looking at  all these wonderful faces, and reminiscing about each one of their wonderful little personalities.  These pictures are some of our favorites of them!  Besides the gallery wall check out the other projects I have been working on or should I say decoupaging or painting.

With the neutral changes that have been taking place at my house, and wanting to get new pictures up of my family members.  I have been decoupaging everything that goes in the living room or dining room that had a surface which could be decoupaged! Or I have painted it white!  In the last 4 days I have been working on this grand kid photo gallery wall, and because I needed a little bit of variety even with the neutral look, I have decoupaged frames, a clock, and oh one of my favorites for my studio, the little mannequin dress form I scored at a garage sale for $1.00.
There are lots of pictures in this post, and I have to say that my photo gallery at the end of our grandchildren turned out much better than anticipated!

 First I took these old books, (German hymnbook, and an old dictionary etc.) and rip the pages from them.  (I check out and see if they are worth anything first)  If not I go to work on them. 

I decoupaged some frames.  

This one below was decoupaged with the old dictionary.

I decoupaged this one but left the pretty edge on it!

This clock then became this (below). . . . 

I left part of it green, because it matches my wall in the living room.  

And this little dress form became this after I sprayed the gold part black. . . .

And this became this. . . .

This word just has to be present in my home, because my home reflects so much joy with husband and family.  It is not just for Christmas at our house!  

This was burgundy and gold, but now it is white.   

a look into the dining room where the gallery wall is!

I am not finished with my living room, but the dining room is just how I want it now.