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I've Been Framed (Joy Project Update)
🕑 Added 2023-07-05 22:50:12 +0000 UTCMy one goal going in to Goodwill was to find a frame for this really pretty 12" x 18" print I bought at a craft fair and suspended in its flimsy plastic sleeve on my kitchen wall.
As you can see in my photo on the left, the plastic sleeve is not doing the beautiful art by Joe Wirtheim any justice. This bad boy needs a frame. So! To the secondhand shop!
While they did not have anything quite right for my medium-sized print, I did find something just a touch... larger. Like. Basically two and a half times larger. Like. Large enough for me to hide behind and be completely hidden from view.
43" x 30.75", babyeeee.
This frame had actually caught my eye a couple trips ago, but I wouldn't let myself buy it because I didn't actually have anything that large that needed framing and I didn't have any future projects in mind for it.
But!
The gold edges! Both exterior and interior! The weathered blue-teal of the front-facing panels!
AUGH.
WANT.
While looking for justifications to spend the $14.99 on this beauty, I thought back to The Joy Project. I completed my first round of sketches for all the submissions, but I hadn't yet started to assemble them into a cohesive image because I've been indecisive about the dimensions of the final piece. Do I make it square or landscape or vertical? Do I make it one giant image or two that display side-by-side? Do I make it so it's formatted to be viewed on a phone screen, since that's how the majority of people will see it? Do I size it so it's best viewed in real life, walking along a long horizontal scroll along a wall, making the viewer literally walk alongside it to travel from beginning to end? I didn't know!
Well, I thought. I could just let this frame decide the dimensions of that piece for me.
So, here we go. The Joy Project will fill the 36" x 24" open space within this mottled blue-teal and gold 43" x 30.75" frame.
And I'm sure I'll find another project for the faux-antique map that's currently in it.
Comments
allanfranta
There are a few prints (and a painting) here that need frames, thanks for the idea, I would have never thought to go to the thrift store for these!
Andy Ihnatko
Thrifting frames is the best! There was a sort of low-end antiques store/high-end thrift store in my neighborhood until recently and they always had dozens and dozens of vintage and antique picture frames. Ten times more interesting than what I could get at Amazon, for a quarter of the price! It always seemed as if I took the time to do a deep dive, I could find something perfectly suited to the piece of artwork in my hand. They closed recently. But when I go to garage and estate sales, I'm still usually the one weirdo whose eyes light up at the sight of a pile of boring art prints that were put into magnificent frames 75 years ago...
Mandy Wright
I personally think the mystery add a touch of excitement!
Mandy Wright
Loooooove this
at0m
Honestly I don't REALLY care, I just thought it was funny. And it's obvious you've got a spaghetti strap top on in one of the other ones, and I'm assuming short shorts because the weather is AWFUL this year
Erika Moen
I almost wrote a note on it saying "ACTUALLY WEARING CLOTHES" or something along those lines
Erika Moen
What the WHAT, that's amazing!!!
at0m
It's hilarious how you look like you're wearing your birthday suit behind the picture frame in the first one
Sky
So excited
The Ferret
Ooh heck yes, that's gorgeous! I love your delighted face, like Sharon said, a perfect purchase n_n
Sharon Hughes
Love how happy your face is in all these photos. Totally appropriate purchase for The Joy Project ❤️
Becky Fish
To help you with the planning, this is an awesome tool: https://yarntree.com/java/xstitchcal.htm
