Mapping It Out

After installing Clementine's big-girl bed, the next step was to put up some artwork. I'm in love with the cut-out maps from French company Famille Summerbelle. They sell silkscreened prints of various exotic locales, but my favorite by far is the world map:



As a major added bonus, it fits perfectly in a $20 Ikea frame. Finally, a way around the frame job that costs ten times as much as the artwork. That's what always happens to me anyway. My taste in frames is far more expensive than my taste in artwork, but I think it is true that an ebay find can look like a million dollars when properly framed. And I despise mats!
That said, I think I am going to break down and get a mat for the Paris map I got. For some reason this print is not made in the same size as the world map, so it's too small for the Ikea frame and I can't find a readymade frame anywhere that fits it. I love it anyway! Ours is fluorescent pink but they are now printing it in coral. I had a pang of regret when I saw the new colorway, but I've come back around to the fluro.

Lastly, I purposely bypassed the NYC map, but if you've got a sentimental thing for this crazy city then this might be for you. I found the accuracy of this map to be a little off, which distracted me, although that is probably true for Paris as well and I just don't know the difference! Now that I look at this in "Mulberry" (love those Frenchies and their way with color) I'm sort of coveting it!