Ideas. Refurbishment and re creation of old furniture

I have been out and about recently and come acorss alot of old photo frames, especially gided ones that i could refurbish myself to give it the right look. I havent started looking for coffee tables yet but looking at my groups list of things they discussed last thrursday, i did like the idea of incorporating small bug elements into each piece. I would like to do this on the top of the coffee table.