Picture Hanger

With the purchase of our new home, I wanted to create a wall like in my old house with a collage/mosaic of framed photos of all 5 of our kids.  (Yes...together we have 5 kids...therefore cutting costs, budgeting, organization, and making the most of what we have...is one of the reasons why I'm so attracted to Pinterest).

After placing most of my frames up, I realized that one of my favorite frames had lost it's hanger in the back (maybe in the move).

I found the pin at:
http://pinterest.com/pin/32299322297662917/

With the instructions at: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/tried-tested-hanging-art-with-142868

As I mentioned before, we try to cut back on our trash bags for the sanitation department by burning half of it.  But we, also, recycle all our pop cans.  Therefore, access to pop tabs was easy.  The only difference that I did was that I popped the tab off so that the tab stayed in whole...resulting in a perfect small loop/hole for the screw to go through.

WARNING:  Because the tab is made of aluminum...it is a soft metal.  When you go to put the screw through, be careful that there isn't too much tension on the tab itself as it will tear or break.

After the first attempt, I ended up with:

And it hung up like a charm. :)