Last summer, while hunting pinterest for wedding ideas, I came across the idea to use an old atlas for a guest book.
I like old things, and Shawn likes maps, so it seemed like a good fit.
But finding an atlas at a thrift or antique store didn't end up being as easy as I thought it would be. Plus, we were having a small (ish) wedding, and wouldn't need a whole atlas for everyone to write on.
Then I found this- a vintage roadmap of the midwest! It was perfect, it had my hometown, Shawn's home town, and the place where we spent most of our time while we were dating, a camp in Nebraska where I was working.
It's funny to think we lived less then 3 hours apart our entire lives, but God didn't bring us together until 2 years ago. (Has it been that long already?)
Let's turn this post over to Shawn, who did pretty much all the work for the next part.
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This was a special project to do because of what it meant. So in doing these frame projects, my brain is always going with how to make frames that you don't see everyday, and how to direct your focus to what's framed.
Since the map is light colored, I wanted a light wood on the outside. Maple was the perfect wood for this, since it's light and it also has a good grain pattern. Well, the day I went to pick it out I stumbled upon some figured maple.Figured maple is so called because of the wavy lines in the grain, that have sort of an iridescent look about them. It can also be called curly maple. I had some quarter sawn oak so you put the combination together and you get this frame. Since it is a big frame, we used plexiglass, instead of glass, to try to keep some weight out of it.
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| I'm not sure who wrote this, but it's kinda funny :) |