My friendship with people is something I value incredibly highly. Cooking and entertaining, is incredibly fun for me. I hope to share some of my Boston adventures. Either cooking, apartment tips or places I have been. Maybe places I really just wish to go. We will find out what gets put up next!
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Johnny Cupcakes presents: THE GOONIES
June 18th, Midnight @ the coolidge corner theater…I will be there!
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Riverside (green) line turns 50!An orange streetcar on the Riverside Line’s first day of service on July 4, 1959.
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Do It Yourself Framing Adventure.
Well said…
So Last month for my birthday the lady got me this totally awesome photo offset poster from the
international poster gallery in Boston.
It is a Perestroika era Soviet poster in Ukrainian, dated 1989. The poster reads: Before the Chick is even born, already it is told to keep quiet. It urges the older generation to support and allow freedom of speech instead of being skeptical of it. It’s a very important message, and one of the major steps Mikhail Gorbachev enacted that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union my parents came of age in.
The gift, which in and of itself was an amazing present. I love and am fascinated with the soviet union and to have a piece of original propaganda from the final days of the USSR is pretty awesome, but it was made even better when she told me included with my beautiful gift was a trip to the Framer’s Workshop in Brookline to mount and put together my own frame for the poster.
Saturday Morning we were off to build my frame! Here’s a shot of my poster being dry mounted in the heat press.
Here’s the poster after the heat press
We put the poster aside and it was time to start building our frame. Measurements were taken, we picked our matte, frame, and glass and got to work! Corner by corner we lined up our wood, applied wood glue, drilled and nailed together our frame:
(The lady (R) and I (L) took turns working the hand drill and nailing the frame together)
(while the frame dried (L) we prepared our UV glass for the frame (R)
Here is a shot of Rachel, our awesome Framer’s Workshop helper shaving down the matte so it was a tight fit for the frame. On the right I am stapling the mounted poster into the back of the frame.
Last but not least here is me feigning super excitement for the finished frame as well as the final product hanging in the living space.
I really enjoyed the framer’s workshop experience and give huge credit to Rachel for showing us all the ins and outs of building a frame down to the fine details. I would easily suggest to anyone in the greater Boston area to take a trip to the framer’s workshop if you are interested in framing your own posters, art, photographs, etc.
A huge thanks to my lovely girlfriend for such a kick ass present which I absolutely love. Both the poster and the time at the framer’s workshop kick ass!
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The framer’s workshop!
The poster I got for the boyfriend is framed!! I am thrilled with the way it works and we had a great time making the frame! I would definately go to the framer’s workshop again for our next piece of artwork. The frame was affordable, and the staff was incredibly helpful.
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Brookline Food Tour
This looks wicked fun, for $44 you can have a tour of Jewish food on Sunday’s or Russian food on Saturdays!! Good times! I am not sure if they would accomidate a veggie, but I would try.
