Orange you glad to freestyle me?

When it comes to framing pictures I don't consider myself to be limited by tradition.  Let me clarify, I love an ornate carved wooden gold leaf frame as much as the next person, but if you want hot pink metal for your modern art, go wild.  Despite this design-sense liberality I had never sought out orange colored frames, much less orange plastic.  Confession, I did not take this small orange frame when I saw it at le dump this summer, I just didn't see it fitting on the blue or cream colored walls anywhere.  Creative Roommate snagged it when she accompanied me at a later date, and I'm glad she did.  Orange and blue are complementary colors, a good thing to remember.

Small and brightly colored? Sounds like a songbird, and that is just what she painted to fit inside.

Moth noms!

Songbirds, yes, but they are eating instead of singing, it is for the kitchen after all.

Happy freestyling, and don't be afraid of orange, after all 2012 is the year of Tangerine Tango. Enjoy it.

@Friends' - Free Shelving, Just Hanging Out

I don't know if I can take credit for introducing others to the joys of freestyle.  I think it is already inside everyone, you just have to open your eyes, see the possibilities, and maybe get over any lingering qualms about stuff on the sidewalk.  Some people are way ahead of me in the freestyle journey, others are just starting, but whenever anyone has some awesome find to share, I'll post it under the "@Friends' " label.

So, moving on to today's post, with eyes sufficiently opened, some lovely friends (fellow Mid-westerners transplanted to Cambridge) have started to feather their nest -in part- with freestyle finds.  They have a tiny kitchen. Tiny. Tiny. Tiny.  Submarines have more spacious cooking areas. But, being handy with ropes and such the idea of suspending this shelving unit from the wall was easy to carry out. Hanging it from the wall saves on floor space and gives more vertical hanging space for those oh-so-critical pot holders.

This spacious shelving unit is ready to lend a hand from breakfast 'till midnight snack time, all thanks to a little sidewalk scouting.  Now, who wants tea?