imple Vegetarian | Ecofrugal artwork

Just a brief placed up in recent times to reveal off my new ecofrugal art work. Ever thinking about we were given the futon for our downstairs room, approximately two years lower again, we had been trying to provide you with a few issue appropriate to hold over it. Well, multiple months in the past, I came about to think about my series of Harmony catalogue covers. Harmony is a business corporation that grew out of Seventh Generation (purveyors of eco-friendly cleansing elements and recycled paper objects) and eventually have turn out to be part of Gaiam, and for some time in some unspecified time in the future of the 90s, they have been sending out catalogues approximately eight times a yr with adorable, seasonal nature pictures on the duvet. I commenced saving the ones and in the end gathered together 15 of them, which I trimmed down to 8 inches thru 10 to position them in a photograph body show like this one. But the display screen had been given broken in the course of a flow, and when you bear in mind that then, the pictures have just been stashed away in a container with unique unused art work.

We didn't have any picture frames in our collection that were the right size to display these in their new, truncated size. I tried hanging them in 8-1/2 by 11 document frames, but the tiny sliver of white space around the edges looked untidy. So then I tried buying some cheap 8-by-10 frames from the Dollar Tree, only to discover that this is one of the cases in which the adage "you get what you pay for" really holds true. The cheap frames were backed with cardboard, which was very difficult to squeeze out of and back into the frames without crushing the pictures in the process—and eventually I broke the glass in one of them as I tried to cram the back into it. So I decided to try the next step up and see what Michael's had to offer. I took the precaution of checking the Internet for coupons first, and I found that, lo and behold, there was a coupon good that very weekend for 25 percent off any order of picture frames—including sale items. And when I got there, printed coupon in hand, I found that most of the picture frames they had in stock were on sale, as well. So I ended up buying eight 10-by-13 frames with an 8-by-10 mat, reduced from $9 each to $5, and with my coupon I paid just $32 (including tax) for the lot. I took a picture of the final result, though I'm afraid it didn't come out very well with the reflection off the glass—but it gives you the general idea.

For me, I'll admit, even $32 is greater than I could normally spend on some thing it's far truly ornamental?However it might be less than we would have had to pay for a single massive piece, and it is green each in its thematic fabric and for example of innovative reuse.