I'm My Own Artist

As I mentioned before, I have a number of fun photographs I thought might work well as art in our home.   Well, Snapfish gave me some incentive (30% off posters) to order a number of pictures to see this reality through.  My vision was to make the hallway on the lower level reflect our travels around the world so far.  I selected a couple of photos from each major trip we have taken; Germany, St. Lucia, and San Francisco.  The long term thought is as we take more trips we can change out photos or add new ones to the wall or others nearby.

So to hang all these works of art, I waited for a pretty nice sale at Michaels and bought identical frames for the hall.  I thought it would bring a uniform gallery feel to the collection.  Most of our other frames are very eclectic and work well together, but I wanted uniformity for this set.  That and I am not sure I would find enough versions of lighter colored frames at Michaels without it looking like I tried to make a pattern.  Little did I know, this was a bit of a challenge to get 7 frames from Michaels all at once.  The good news?  I was finally able to get them 40% off with another 25% off of that. 

So here are some pictures of the pictures as they were assembled and hung.

Trying to flatten the prints after being in the tube for a week.

Since I bought the frames rather inexpensively, they have awful hooks in the back.  So, I remedied that with putting a new hook on the back.  It was kind of a pain, but it's WAY easier than trying to line up two nails and getting it hooked on there otherwise.

Using a laser level = awesome.

Finished product!  If anyone needs a simple reason to learn math and specifically fractions - it's so you can hang photos like this someday!