Recently I posted about a gift that my husband and I bought for ourselves. But we didn’t stop there. On a warmer than usual December Saturday, we decided to wander down Mass Ave. in Indianapolis to do some more “Christmas shopping”. One of the shops on our shop-local-hit-list was The Inventorialist. We had done some window shopping on a previous evening, and I swear the inside of that store is what my dreams look like, so we had to go back. I’m so happy we did, because the inventory a The Inventorialist exceeded my expectations. We bought SO MANY things, but these prints from Aesthetic Apparatus are among my favorites.
https://www.instagram.com/p/V45244OPGR/If you hang around for very long, you will learn that I am obsessed with birds. And squirrels. And foxes. And basically an entire cast of wild creatures. My dogs are also obsessed with birds, squirrels, and an entire cast of wild creatures. Though, I’m not sure how they would handle an encounter with a fox. Recently we stumbled onto a hawk on our morning walk, and Buddy immediately dropped to the ground while Greta quietly scooted herself behind my husband’s legs for protection.
By the way, why is the plural of fox foxes, when the plural of ox is oxen? Maybe I will start saying foxen.
Anyway. When we were buying the prints, Kris mentioned that they would fit perfectly in an album cover frame. Score! Because we were looking for a clean-line frame at a budget-friendly price. Remember, we had done quite a bit of “gift” shopping at this point.
Coupons in hand, I recently headed to the craft store to buy album cover frames. As i was pouting about browsing the single option available at that store, my eyes wandered to these t-shirt frames. Though the look and quality were about the same as the album frames, they were deeper. Wouldn’t this give the prints more presence on the wall, I thought? And when we are ready to replace the frames with something a little more quality, I may have more options for re-using the t-shirt frames than three lonely album cover frames. (Yes, I am already dreaming up new crafty ideas.)
I placed the prints in the frames, and began a series of measurements.
- I measured the width of the frames (13″). I know the measurement is listed on the paper insert of the frame, but I wanted to know the width from one outside edge to the other.
- I measured the center of the frames to double-check that I had replaced the hanging hardware in the correct position.
- I measured the height of the frames (13″). Yes, I know these are square. So this measurement should be the same as the width, but I wanted to make sure.
- I played around with the spacing between the three frames until I it looked just about right, and then I measured the distance between the frames (1 1/2″). Then I measured the total height of the three frames as they would hang in a vertical arrangement on the wall (42″).
Next, I took my measurements to the wall.
- I measured width of the wall where I wanted to hang the prints. Well, really my husband did this. Then he measured the center of that width.
- He measured the total height of the three frames, so that the center of the arrangement was at approximate eye level.
- He held a frame up against the wall, so that I could envision how the frames would look in relationship to the adjacent curtains, built-in bench, and furniture. Do you all do this with your hanging partners? Well, then you know that some discussion ensued.
- We adjusted the measurements to take into account the curtains, bench, and discussion.
- He measured up the distance of the frame height (13″) from the bottom of the total height (42″) and hammered in the first nail
- He measured the distance of the fram height plus the spacing (14 1/2″) and hammered in the second nail. He repeated this step for top nail.
Before hanging the prints, we played around with the order in which we wanted to hang them. As you can see in the shot above, each print has a different colored circle. I’ve been calling it a ball. The black ball in the bluebird print ties it to the black squirrel, and the red-orange ball in the squirrel print ties it to the orange fox. After deciding that this the way to go, I hung framed prints on the wall.
https://www.instagram.com/p/V4x3TKuPKp/Finished, I immediately wondered if I should have hung the prints with the fox on top, the bluebird in the center, and the squirrel on the bottom. I am really liking how the colors in the prints also pull from red-orange framed chess board with the turquoise and ivory marble chess pieces on the table below. What do you think? Leave them as they are?
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