One of the questions I get most frequently is about where to find large-scale photos and art for walls—and where to get them framed. We opted for large pieces over a gallery wall in both our living room and our dining room.
It’s a good question: it’s hard to find quality prints at sizes that look properly scaled above a sofa or a bed. And it’s expensive to get them framed.
Recently, I learned that Minted had expanded their Wall Art Collection to include large-scale prints (with a framing option)—and there are so many great pieces. They have a range of mediums—drawings, paintings, photographs. I selected some of my favorites to share.
I’m really drawn to deserts (like this) and beaches lately—something about moving to California and seeing palm trees outside our window seems to have done that to me.
One option is to pair two large images side by side or vertically, if you have a particularly large space in need of an anchor.
And while I particularly like to see photographs printed large, I couldn’t help but include this girl in the inner tube—it reminds me of Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings of his family at the beach.
If you’re going to get one of the Wall Art prints framed, do so before the 24th and get free shipping with the code ARTFRAMEDFS.
P.S. Other reasons to love Minted: holiday cards with pre-addressed address service and adorable new personalized kids’ name labels for back-to-school. (And you can get free shipping on those—over $39—with the code SCHOOLFS through 8/24).
Thank you to Minted for sponsoring this post. As ever, all opinions expressed are my own.
Before we left for Hawaii, I spent a ridiculous amount of time (and money) researching sunscreens. I’m still working (as in, currently, at this moment) on coming up with my definitive favorites.
I recently learned about an Artisan-box subscription service with a great cause, called GlobeIn—they curate “beautiful, distinct products that give global reach to remote artisans and farmers from around the world.” My first box—the laundry box—contained a beautiful Upcycled laundry bag from Cambodia, a palm-leaf basket from the Mixteca region of Mexico, a fair-trade cotton bag from India, wool dryer balls from the Altyn Kol Women’s Cooperative in Kyrgyzstan, and these soap nuts: fruit shells from the ritha tree in Nepal that release a natural detergent called saponin.
You can read all about the Artisan Laundry box and the way its products contribute to the livelihoods of their makers, here.
But I want to know who has tried using soap nuts before? (At first I thought they were nutmeg shells.) What do you think? From what I can tell, they’re used in places for washing hair, too.
The note in the box had a list of tips—like adding a dash of black pepper to brights to prevent color from bleeding! Also news to me.
So please spill: What other laundry secrets am I not yet privy to?
Interested in learning more about GlobeIn’s Artisan Boxes? You can subscribe for or buy individual boxes as gifts. And if you are interested in subscribing, you can get 25% off your first month’s box with the purchase of a 3-month or longer subscription with the code HITHER.
If you’d like to start a subscription with this specific box—the Laundry kit (with soap nuts!)—you have until this Wednesday, the 19th. Every month brings a new theme.
This post is sponsored by GlobeIn. GlobeIn seeks out beautiful, wellmade products and traces their origin to ensure that they are doing social good. They share those stories to take the burden out of buying better. Photos courtesy of GlobeIn.
