Map art

Remember many posts ago when I teased and tantalized you with map art?! Well, the explanation is here. Hold on to your hats because it's good! Sadly, I did not come up with this great idea on my own. Instead I found it here at Anything Pretty. Basically you take an old map or atlas (who needs those with GPS anyway?!) and you cut it to match a frame or mat. Easy enough, right? Right.

I had an old atlas (thanks Dad!) and thought 'what the heck am I going to do with this?!' Before pitching I looked through and decided to mat maps of Minneapolis, Minn. (where Andy's from) and Richmond, Va. (where I'm from, Richmond represent! What! What!) next to one another.

I'm pretty happy with the finished product and so is Andy. He's got a small fascination with maps. See below for a map he drew of Minnesota and Wisconsin on our first date. We keep it on a memory board above the sink with some other odds and ends (check out our old Virginia (is for lovers) licenses nestled in there).