Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Sail into the Land of Freegifting

Found: Black frame, small poster-size
Location: In front of the building next door (talk about an easy carry-home!)

Project Steps: 
1. Clean frame
2. Suggest to Creative Roommate that she should 'paint something nautical' as a graduation party gift for a mutual friend who just finished a graduate program and does lots of work on boats.
3. Wrap it up with some cool old National Geographic maps.
4. Bring to party, present!

Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main...

Note: We discussed the possible etiquette faux pas of gifting something that was partially composed of freestyle components, and we decided that it was acceptable in this case because of the following:
1. The painting was original, and made specifically for the recipient, thus outside of the social grey area of 'regifting.'
2. The recipient appreciates creativity, and being in an environmental-related program would likely be accepting of the 'reuse and repurpose' philosophy that is at the heart of freestyling.