The Picture Frames

Zach and I spent a good part of this past week working on a craft project, so I thought I'd go ahead and share the details of that with you all this week. As I mentioned in a previous post, we are finally in a position to buy some of the things we want (instead of just basic needs), and that includes decorations for our apartment. I got this idea from a Martha Stewart book of creating unique picture frames by decorating the mat in the frames with ribbon, and I've been wanting to make some of these frames for awhile. The project is very simple and requires just a few materials: picture frames with thick mat, ribbon, and fabric glue. The idea is that you create different geometric designs on the mat of each frame with the ribbon, and then when you hang them on the wall, the design adds a nice, unique flair to the pictures.

So I started assembling the ribbon on the mats while Zach looked through our pictures to find some good photos for the finished frames.


We decided to fill the frames with our favorite pictures from our favorite places in the world. We chose the following cities:

Barcelona, Spain - Zach and I visited Barcelona on our study abroad in 2006, which is where we met each other. This picture was taken on top of the Casa Mila apartments, one of our favorite places in the city because of it's unique and groovy architecture.

Florence, Italy - We visited this city on our study abroad as well, and I took this picture while we were walking along the Arno, returning to our hotel after a pretty boring ballet. At this point in the trip, our romance was budding, so we have very fond memories of our time in Florence.


Mykonos, Greece - Eden and Kate dragged us to Greece and Turkey with them at the beginning of the summer in 2009. At the time we were skeptical and not quite sure if "cheap airline tickets" was a good enough reason to go on a spontaneous European vacation. We had an amazing time though, and along the way found Mykonos, one of the most relaxing places I've ever been to. Unfortunately we didn't get to spend much time there, but we've all vowed to meet there again in the future.

Kangaroo Island, Australia - Zach and I went on an epic trip to Australia and New Zealand after graduating in December. Kangaroo Island was by far one of our favorite destinations from that trip. The island was empty, which made it really peaceful, and also provided us with long stretches of highway for Zach to practice driving on the "wrong" side of the road. I took this picture on one of those relaxing drives.

We hung all of the finished frames in our bedroom, across from the bed. I'm really happy with the end result, because not only have we gotten rid of a boring, blank wall, we also get to look at all of these pictures and reminisce whenever we walk by them. Fun times...


Good bye for now, have a great weekend!