A picture 4 years in the making

I'll be the first to admit that some of my projects take a little longer than expected, but this one is probably a personal record. In 2005 I attended a conference in Utrecht, in the Netherlands. While I was there I bought a nautical print I thought looked nice. I didn't buy the frame that went with it. I've since learned that this is usually a bad idea, as a print without a frame tends to collect dust in a drawer somewhere.

That's what happened this time. The print was a weird shape, so I decided to make a frame myself out of some ash I had left over from a table I made. I started it in 2005 and it's been moved in various states of incompleteness from Northampton to Fairfield to Tuckahoe and now to Sunnyvale. I ran into it most recently when we rearranged Megan's room. It turned out that I had already bought all the parts needed to finish it (I don't remember when), so I finally put it all together this weekend.

For something started four houses ago it matches our current woodwork surprisingly well.

My next problem is another frameless print I got in Japan in 2004...