seemingly ugly apples contd.again

You may remember way back in October, Ann and Jenny and I began working on an apple project that I couldn't talk too much about because the recipient of the apples may have been lurking on my blog. Well, the project is finished and the secret is no longer, so here goes my apple project story...A few years ago Eileen, my mother-in-law had this beautiful picture in her head of a large family tree painted on her wall and apples with her family's pictures hanging all throughout the branches. She was nervous about this project, but I was so proud of her for actually doing it, it's kind of gutsy! After she commissioned the artist to paint the tree, she had a difficult time finding the right apples for the pictures and ended up using a die cut and no offense, but it looked a litte like kindergarten class, and the pictures were not so great either, all very different from each other. So, the girls thought it would be fun to put new apples on mom's tree to surprise her on her homecoming. Robert's had these great wooden apples and since decoupage is so in right now, we thought they would make great frames. So, we painted, and sanded and used modge podge for the various pattern papers we'd scouted and ended up with some really cute apples. We also had everyone send in pictures and I turned them all sepia in photoshop and printed them into wallets. The brown photograph looked great with the brown "rustic" look of the apples and it helped to make them all consistent and uniform looking. This was our end result, sorry about the glare, I'm going to have to go take another picture during the day when I don't need my flash. Eileen LOVED the apple tree, hopefully it was much closer to the beautiful family tree she originally invisioned.