New Collage Frames

This is the best angle I could manage to photograph the three collage frames I made for our stairway. Such a simple thing and yet--the amount of time that went into it! I was an entire year behind in uploading my photos to an online storage site, so first I spent about a week uploading photos organized by month. Then I searched through the thousands of photos (because I'm such a shutterbug) to place a print order of a wide variety, but hoping I wasn't ordering too many extra because that would be a waste of money. There were two or three trips with the two children to different stores that sell frames in order to buy some (similar but not matching, because I already had one old one I was using). For a couple of weeks, the guest room was taken over by about 60 photos spread out all over the floor. I worked on the project many late nights, trying to get the right photo combinations into the right sized holes to look nice and to balance how many photos of each family member were included. Then Chris saw a commercial for 3M Command Strips, so I took John to the hardware store to study them and buy some. Finally came the hanging, which was a multistep process. I used a measuring tape and taped a span of string along the stairwell to get the right angle and measurements for all the frames. The Command Strips must be applied to the frame and wall, then left to adhere for an hour before any weight is hung from them, so I did each from one at a time over two days.

Finally! Done!

Except I have three more smaller collage frames to finish . . .