wall update + canvas on demand

many months ago i attended a book club meeting at my sister-in-law's sister's house and she had this neat idea for decorating her wall.  she had made a frame out of molding and then swapped out the items inside to coordinate with the season.  i loved it, so simple yet so creative, i had to have it.  so mz was more than happy to help build the frame since it meant using power tools.  i had hung it up at christmas time and hung a bunch of ornaments in it....and then it sat empty for about 3 months.

i had planned on filling it with pictures and had bought a bunch of frames on sale from michael's a while back...but  like many of my projects, they sat untouched for weeks.  partially due to my laziness and partially because i hate completing projects since there's always a good chance that the end result won't live up to the picture in my head.  but then i saw an awesome groupon for canvasondemand.com and decided to suck it up and fill up the frame.

i received my canvas yesterday and was really pleased with the results!!  the groupon got me a $125 16x20 thick wrapped canvas for only $45.  mz and i picked a picture i took out a car window in greece with my mom and sister.  the dimensions of the picture were a little funky for the size of the canvas (and i don't have photoshop so couldn't use the canvasondemand template)...so i was a little nervous that the canvas wouldn't do the photo justice.  so in the notes section of the order form i gave them some details on how i wanted the final product to look (i.e. make sure the tall flower didn't get cut off on the wrap and crop more of the sky than field) and they followed them to a T.  i also saw that they have a 100% satisfaction guaranty so if the canvas came out funny i could just send it back.  doesn't get better than that!  i'm crossing my fingers that there's another groupon for this website again soon because i'm hooked!!

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finished product...unless i decide to add more frills to the corners:

note that this is actually all level (i'm neurotic about that), i just foolishly stood off center when taking this picture so it makes the frame look a bit crooked!