finally framed

First thing’s first. Who’s excited for tomorrow? We are:

We (obviously – from the picture) read these books before Christmas and cannot wait to see the movie this weekend! My department at work is having an especially nerdy celebration of this event, which I’ll have to share next week. Stay tuned for that. In the meantime, Hello again! I have been awfully neglecting of my blog lately. Springtime is my favorite, and I inevitably get excited about a lot of things when it rolls around each year, which makes me busy as I agree to do and plan to do much more than I probably should.
We have been crazy busy around our house this month, and I haven’t gotten around to photographing a lot of it so I can share it here, so this is a little overdue. We hung a frame collage on our living room wall, and after just receiving the last print in the mail last week, I can finally share the finished product. Let me introduce you…

I really wanted a collection of unrelated things. I wanted mismatching frames, a mixture of prints, photos, crafts and typography.
1. I bought this photo from a local artist at a street fair in Victoria, British Columbia in…like…2002. Unfortunately, I can give no more proper credit to the artist. But that photo always makes me think of this verse: “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!'” – Isaiah 52:7
2. This is the back of a business card from illustrator Leah Duncan. I believe she designed the pattern on the back, and I thought it was pretty, so I framed it. The card came with #9.
3. One of our wedding photos. I don’t get too excited about having my own face on the wall in my house, but I’m fine with the back of my head. And David’s face. I allow us one obligatory wedding picture in the public area of our house. We can put the rest in our bedroom. I have a weird thing about seeing an overload of wedding pictures in a person’s house.
4. This print was a gift I received from my sister for Christmas, with the intention of it going up on this wall. It is from ArtQuirk. I considered doing the whole frame wall of her prints, just framed building/cityscapes. I still think that would be cool. You should do it.
5. A photo I took of a tree at the duplex we used to live in.
6. One of my favorites. Have you heard of the Phraseology Project? You can submit a phrase and they’ll illustrate it. They also have a store with some of these illustrations you can purchase. They’re apparently awesome to work with, too. My mom ordered this for me (also as a Christmas gift) and they didn’t have the other one I wanted, so they sent her three others instead. So I have three more, still waiting to find a wall to live on.
7. A photo I took last two years ago when we vacationed to northern Minnesota with David’s parents.
8. I bought the Botanical Calendar by Rifle Paper Co. and I’m a little obsessed with it. I hate the idea of turning each page after only 30 days or so, and never seeing those works of art again. So I am going to repurpose them. This is January.
9. Another Christmas gift from my sister – by Leah Duncan.
10. A lazy craft project. I took that ugly piece of cardboard that came in the frame, and wrote out the lyrics to a song I love with white watercolor.
11. My favorite picture of all time. I don’t know why, but I love it. It’s David, dressed up as a cowboy for Halloween. He’s sitting on a wood pile with the sun in his eyes and a fake mustache and it cracks. me. up.
12. Lazy craft #2. I wanted one of these (specifically the R) but I’m cheap, so I made a two-dimensional one out of a map of Kauai, where we went on our honeymoon. I thought the colors on the map were a little dull, so I watercolored over them to make them a little deeper. Then I cut out an R from the map, and there you have it.


It took an afternoon to measure, mark and hammer out the layout we wanted. It makes me happy. What about any of you – do you have spring house projects you’re working on?