As happy as an alligator eating raw chicken?

I found a basic black 8x10 composite wood frame a while ago. It had spent a little time in a rain shower before I got to it, but there was no print or photo inside (did you know that wet photos stick to glass and are annoying to scrape off? now you do!). It floated around the apartment for a bit displaying a photograph that looked ok, but not great. I admit, not all my ideas work out perfectly at first.  But once Creative Roommate got her hands on it she made a watercolor we'll call "Alligator Feeding Time."

This hung on the kitchen wall, above the stove, with all the other animal feeding paintings until one day... 

She sold it! To a friend of another roommate who came in, liked it, and offered cash for this and another watercolor.  This was unprecedented, but super cool. I'm sorry I wasn't there to witness it, but I'm happy knowing that a freestyle frame was a part of it.  When Creative Roommate told me the story her smile was as big  as the alligator's in the picture. Buen provecho!

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.