Wall confession

Two years ago in August, we moved into our new house. I guess now it is just our house, but the following makes me feel better if I call it our new house.

I have exactly four things hanging on the wall. Two of them are prints hanging on nails inserted into holes that we forgot to putty when we painted. One is a concert poster and the other is this, because we have some really awesome memories of the city, from Ork Posters.

San Francisco City Neighbourhood Screen Print // Ork Posters

This is on an existing nail in the bathroom that we haven’t painted yet. It’s from linocutboy on Etsy.

Screenprint // linocutboy

And both of these (on New Years I just switched them around) are hanging off of a thumbtack in the kitchen. Super classy. They are from cicadastudio, also on Etsy.

Queen Anne's Lace 2010 Tea Towel Wall Calendar //cicadastudio

2011 Tea Towel Wall Calendar // cicadastudio

Oh, and this is on the side of the fridge, so not quite hanging, but off the ground/counter nonetheless. By Aaron Bloom & Chelsey Scheffe, suprise, from Etsy too.

It Is . Letterpress Print // crscheffe

See:

(Yes, that is a professional portrait of Sally. No, we did not pay for it)

But for every piece we have “hanging” – and let’s use that word loosely, nothing was carefully placed on a wall – we have about five others that are stuck in a closet, leaning against a wall or just sitting on a counter… totally forgotten about.

Another piece just arrived last week. Forever ago I had purchased a Groupon for a canvas print, and I finally got around to sending something off to them last month. I decided to do something from our wedding. Fact: we’ve been married for a year and the only wedding picture we have is a thank you card that we stuffed into a frame. The card is a postcard. The frame is square. So yeah, the kitchen isn’t the only place we keep it classy.

I didn’t want anything too typical so I went with a shoe shot, tweaked a bit in photoshop.

Adapted from a photo by Chris Mortensen // Lucid Imaging

And now that’s just one more thing we have to hang up. But I’m using this as a kick in the pants. Here we go:

I, Jillian, resolve to hang at least 50% of the collection that is now, so elegantly, gracing the floors of my house.