For Christmas, my father gifted us a homemade calendar (my father is the owner of BSArts Photography...and, yes, the name is intended to be ironic). We always appreciate his beautiful photography, but I don't always have a great way to display his calendars, a fact that I really wanted to change.
Along with my very random collection of craft items, I had a large picture frame that I was hoping I could somehow convert into a calendar display case of some sort. I also had an excess of muslin (which I discovered while organizing my crafts in the basement earlier this week), some wire (left over from when I made my wedding crown and veil) and some little clothes pins from baby shower gifts.
I stapled the edges of a fitted piece of muslin to the perimeter of the cardboard that came with the frame. I then cut a piece of wire to drape across the board lengthwise. I then clothes-pinned the February and March picture calendar months to the wire. I put the cardboard into the frame, cleaned off the dusty plastic, and hung it on a wall.
I'm not sure how I feel about the finished product. I was trying to go for a look that resembled pictures that were drying on a line after being developed. The real pictures were digital and printed from a computer, but I thought maybe I could portray the developed picture feel. Please feel free to comment on the results and let me know what you think (seriously, be truthful - my feelings will not be hurt).
I've temporarily hung it in the kitchen, where we are most likely to need to review it. The finished product might be too childish (with the strange 'developed picture' theme and baby shower clothes pins), so it might end up in Ivy's room. We'll see what the boss (ha, ha), my husband, has to say.
I've temporarily hung it in the kitchen, where we are most likely to need to review it. The finished product might be too childish (with the strange 'developed picture' theme and baby shower clothes pins), so it might end up in Ivy's room. We'll see what the boss (ha, ha), my husband, has to say.
3 comments:
I think that's a lovely idea, and definitely not childish! What a great way to show off your father's beautiful photo works, too, in a more formal way than just posting to the fridge.
One idea (since you were asking!): to make the darkroom-look really hit home would be to use black cloth for the frame's backing. It could make the images pop more maybe? But I think it's lovely as is, too.
Super idea! I think I do have some black fabric in my crazy collection - I will definitely try it.
I like the calendar idea! The darkroom idea is really clever. I always have issues with wall calendars because I never like the way they look on a wall.....like they are too informal or something. But this is a cool solution to that! Plus your dad's photography is really good.
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