Vintage Photo Files.Repurposed Metal File Tools

I'm a Copy-Cat ...

hope you will check out Mamie Jane's" Repurposed Metal File Tool" ... she is one talented lady and I love to copy her. 

Joy at a Vintage Green also use the metal file tools to make a photo gallery display. She made several that I am sure will sell quickly in her shop. Hope you will visit her blog.

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I had some old metal file tools and always have blocks of wood in my collection.  

I attached one picture to the back of the file and that gave a dimensional feel and shows part of the file and a good place to hang a little key.

 

  

This wooden lamp base was just perfect for this project. I bought the magnetic buttons and plain cork circles from the craft store. 

I wrote numbers on them. 

(not easy to write on cork).

I covered the top of the base with vintage sheet music and painted the base black.  I drove the files into the wood after drilling small pilot holes; slanting the large one just a little.

Pictures are vintage with interesting information on the back too.

 

 One picture was framed with black and that looked good. I did not want to bother with cutting strips of paper, so I put some black construction paper through the paper shredder and it was just perfect with a little bit of ragged edge. Worked out just fine.

 I wanted to place something on the base, so gathered up some keys. It was fun to let some hang on the files too. 

The graphic came from The Graphic Fairy and I added the words.
 Love her blog. 

I really enjoyed making this unusual Photo File and it did not cost very much. 

Thanks for stopping by. Love your comments.

Blessings,

Audrey Z. 

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