At about that time, I ordered 6 12x12 canvases from winkflash.com because they were having a huge sale on their canvases (which they are running again!! Get them while you can!). We were deep in the throes of our upstairs project at the time, and since the door to our upstairs is in the corner of the office (thank you for the randomness, home builders of 1920) I didn't want to put them up right away due to dust and all. I COULD have put them up in January, but somehow the first quarter of this year sped by and nothing of substance got done. Except for, oh yeah, finishing my masters program.
Before - our signature matte from our wedding. Almost 4 years later, I'm kind of over large wedding photos so this is now in our basement :) Maybe we'll put it up someday when we have a bigger house with more wall space!
For non Twin Cities residents, here is what these photos are of.
Upper row (L to R): 1. Washburn "A" Mill (not used anymore) on the riverfront in Minneapolis, previously pictured on this blog here. 2. University of Minnesota, our alma mater. More photos from the U of M here, but I actually went back to get this specific photo that included both the Washington Avenue bridge and the Weisman Art Museum in it. 3. The First National Bank sign in downtown St. Paul.
Bottom row (L to R): 1. Lake of the Isles, across the street from where I lived in uptown for 2 years. Previously pictured here. 2. Grain Belt Beer sign on the Mississippi in NE Minneapolis, previously pictured here. 3. Finally, the subject of the photo debate, the Cathedral in St. Paul.
These canvases turned out AWESOME - thanks to Sonja for telling me about winkflash! (Side note: will Sonja and Alex EVER update their blog again??) They definitely have the best prices (and also are good quality) on the internet - all you do is upload your photos onto their site, and they stretch the canvas for you. You can also stretch it yourself, but I have heard that is kind of a pain. The only hard part is finding photos where you don't really care about what is on the edges, because 1.5 inches on each side gets wrapped around the frame - that cut out 3 of my photos and I didn't have time to go back and get new ones that were more canvas appropriate. Now I'm liking how 6 looks in this space anyway, so I think we'll stick with this set up!
On an unrelated note, my in-laws got me flowers as a congrats for graduating and getting a new job - they are so beautiful! Or, they were - I got them last week and finally had to throw them away today :)
Upper row (L to R): 1. Washburn "A" Mill (not used anymore) on the riverfront in Minneapolis, previously pictured on this blog here. 2. University of Minnesota, our alma mater. More photos from the U of M here, but I actually went back to get this specific photo that included both the Washington Avenue bridge and the Weisman Art Museum in it. 3. The First National Bank sign in downtown St. Paul.
Bottom row (L to R): 1. Lake of the Isles, across the street from where I lived in uptown for 2 years. Previously pictured here. 2. Grain Belt Beer sign on the Mississippi in NE Minneapolis, previously pictured here. 3. Finally, the subject of the photo debate, the Cathedral in St. Paul.
These canvases turned out AWESOME - thanks to Sonja for telling me about winkflash! (Side note: will Sonja and Alex EVER update their blog again??) They definitely have the best prices (and also are good quality) on the internet - all you do is upload your photos onto their site, and they stretch the canvas for you. You can also stretch it yourself, but I have heard that is kind of a pain. The only hard part is finding photos where you don't really care about what is on the edges, because 1.5 inches on each side gets wrapped around the frame - that cut out 3 of my photos and I didn't have time to go back and get new ones that were more canvas appropriate. Now I'm liking how 6 looks in this space anyway, so I think we'll stick with this set up!
On an unrelated note, my in-laws got me flowers as a congrats for graduating and getting a new job - they are so beautiful! Or, they were - I got them last week and finally had to throw them away today :)
4 comments:
Wow, the canvases turned out great!!!! The pictures look awesome.
And thanks for the kick in the pants on the blog -- I do need to keep my readers happy (since you're at least 50% of my readership...)! :)
Oh Erin! I love them! I hope you're not mad when I do a lot of my artwork in my home in a MN theme! I love it!
Where did you get the Twin Cities photos?! I've been looking for one of the First Nat'l Bank sign like that for ages, and even tried taking some myself to no avail.
Very cool :)
Sara - I actually took all of the photos myself! Comment back with your email address and I can email you more about it.
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