Burlap Frame Fix-up

Started with a yellowed matte. 

It originally had this picture in it. It was from my first house over a decade ago.  It's weird to me that I was old enough to own a house 11 years ago. College still seems like it was 5 years ago, but no actually it was 12. Weird. Getting older is beginning to be a bummer.

Anyway back to the project...this is that Pates Baroni pic I remember fondly:

Cut burlap to size:

Stuck Burlap to front of matte with spray adhesive:

Cut and taped, all fancy like on back of matte 

 Added page from old atlas of Kalamazoo, MI (my old home):

I'm thinking I'm spelling Matte wrong...

Decade old picture made new for free.

Well not really free because I did buy the stuff initially but you know what I mean.

I was initially going to use the map as the matte but the sizing was all wrong. I like the way it turned out.

And the Map contains my first three towns (as an adult). Kalamazoo, Portage and Plainwell which is pretty neat.