Arts and Crafts Day – For Guys Too!

When its cold outside and we regress into our homes…if you are like me…we look for projects to keep our minds busy. Granted, I live in an amazing place on the western slope of Colorado, but I have never really been a “winter sport” kind of guy. So when the opportunity comes to spend a few days inside the house, making things more “appealing”….or what I call “it’s my house and I’ll make it like I want…”, I take advantage of the opportunity.

I’ve been collecting bandannas for a long time…like after they were biker cool but before they were cool in general 🙂 Over the years, a number of companies started printing cool stuff on bandannas, like survival skills, maps and how to techniques to use outdoors. What a great idea! So over the years I would buy one that I thought was interesting…either from a park ranger station or gift shop, etc…

It turns out, if you look, there are a ton of printed bandannas out there! So, I decided that some of my bandannas deserved display…which took me to Hobby Lobby in search of ideas, which lead me to the idea of framing them! Perfect! There are a variety of sizes of bandannas, but most fall into the 24″ x 24″ category, so sometimes creativity is needed. Sometimes the frame itself is enough….but sometimes you need to add a bit of creativeness (a mat)!

What started out as some folded pieces of fabric has become wall art in my home, and each time I walk by one of them, I remember the place and stop and look at the map as a refresher to the place that it represents!

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