One of the great ideas that I had waaaaay back before we bought the house came from an issue of Country Living Magazine – this woman had framed all of her old Grateful Dead albums and hung them up either behind her bed or behind her couch…I don’t remember which now…but it looked so cool. I didn’t even know that they made frames especially for albums.
The next day I was at A.C. Moore and there they were – frames for albums! And they were 40% off, but they didn’t have a price on them, so I grabbed two and thought, if they were inexpensive, I could come back and pick up more. Turns out they were about $6.40 each. I headed back the next day only to find that they were no longer 40% off, and I couldn’t justify buying three more at regular price. When frames went back on sale, I went back and they were out of the album frames…which irritated the crap out of me.
A few weeks later, I was at the Christmas Tree Shop with a friend. We were just about finished shopping and I said, “I really don’t need anything over near the frames, but let’s go look anyway,” and there they were…album frames…FOR $3.99! I couldn’t believe it! I picked up the three more that I needed to create my pyramid of albums and paid less than I paid for the original two.
So tonight I finally chose my favorites and put them up on the wall (Cat Stevens, Silly Wizard, The Irish Rovers, the Grateful Dead, Harry Chapin and Pink Floyd):
