Because of the fact that we worked so hard before our wedding, we have not been doing any projects around the house. Well, until today. We were given three Bansky photographs from Thomas' Aunt Penni and Uncle Simon.

They arrived from England matted in white but unframed. We went out and bought frames, put the photos in the frames, but oops! The standard metric matte size is about 1/2 smaller all around than our 20x24 inch American frames.

Luckily, Thomas gave me a matte cutter last Christmas. We thought we could get off easy and not have to cut mattes, but it turned out not to be that simple. I went back to the framing store, found a red matte that matches the red wall in our living room, ordered it, waited a week, went back to the framing store and collected our matte.

So today, framing. We measured and measured, stood back to think, measured some more and finally settled on a 3.5 inch boarder around each picture.



Then we put the the border in the frame, followed by the matted photograph and then the backer board.



And here's what we have! We're thrilled with the result! Graphic, bold, anti-authority prints. Perfect.

Check out this charm bracelet from So Charmed. I love it.



Not exactly a bargain though. $385! But I thought the skull, guillotine and cake were pretty rad.

She has neat stuff on her Etsy shop too. Go check it out.

is what every non-conformist aspires to be. He is a graffiti artist extraordinaire. Always making bold statements about government or human behavior, Banksy's work is simple and without flare. We were given three photographs of his work for our wedding. My project this weekend is to matte them, frame them and get them on the wall north in the living room.

I'm excited to get the photos up. Banksy work seems to evoke a lot of emotion from people so I think they will be a good conversation piece.