Hrmmm… What do you all think about this?
I was at Paper Source today, and I just happened to see those buterflies. So I thought: “Oh! I can frame them in little shadowboxes and hang them down the hallway!” I bought that textured yellow paper, and I can pick up some white shadowboxes pretty inexpensively.
I was planning to put them in the library/hallway/upstairs space, and I think they’d look good against the chocolate brown walls. I’ve never really been into taxidermy or butterflies, so it’s sort of strange to me that I thought to do this little art project. I still think I might just return the butterflies and do something else. We’ll see.
*edited to add: No need to worry, butterfly lovers. These are indeed fake butterflies!
midcenturyjo
March 14, 2007 at 2:28 amI think they’d look great! Just remember to use pins to place them just like in the real museum collections. Maybe pretty pearl head pins pushed into foam core board.
Laurie G. (flickr "morningk")
March 29, 2007 at 8:39 pmI love the butterflies. I’m not really into insects or taxidermy either, but there is something very lovely and I guess orderly about framed butterfly collections. I say keep!
p.s. I’m enjoying your flickr pics and home dec. Thanks for sharing!