One of my unofficial goals in 2015 is to add more art to our home. Even though I’m decluttering the house, art is the one thing I don’t feel bad about collecting. Originals, prints, found pieces, kid creations, photos: let’s add them all! I just want to change up our space and make it inspiring.
Over the past few months, I’ve accumulated a few new things, and I’m finally getting around to hanging them up. I’m never short on frames, but for the longest time, I kept forgetting to pick up nails. Nails! How can one run out of nails? It’s possible, let me tell you.
Small PSA: I discovered on my trip to buy nails that Lowe’s now sells a version of the OOK hanger nails. All of you with plaster or masonry walls are probably familiar. They are needle-like and so great for not tearing your walls to bits. Anyway, I’m mentioning this because the ones at Lowe’s are so much cheaper than the OOK brand nails. A pack of 10 is only 97 cents! I will say they are a bit bendier than OOK, maybe not as high quality. Still, for the price, it’s hard to complain.
So this is a post without much of a story; it’s more like a mini art tour with captions. Here are some of our new(ish) pieces. More art to come, hopefully. The piece at the top is from this artist, and was something I found for myself while I was holiday shopping.
I bought this St. Louis skyline screen print from this artist in the wake of all the violence in Ferguson. Sorry for the glare. It looks great in this spot in our hallway.
As I’m writing this, I am realizing this is not as quite a recent addition as I had thought. I instagrammed it way back in July, it seems, though I’ve never shown it here. We inherited this photo from Dan’s aunt. Not sure if the girl is a relative or not, but I love it. I haven’t tried taking it apart to see if it has writing on the back yet because it appears to be stuck to the glass a bit, and I would hate to mess it up. It’s a really large photo for being so old (maybe 9×12?), and it’s not even the right size for the frame. I just love everything about it.
And this last piece was made by Elise in art class. Although she loves art and projects and drawing, she usually doesn’t have the patience to make things like this at home. I love his polka dots and his strange black feet. Who knew snowmen had feet?
