Frames

This is good: a friend has gone away for a month and asked me to house-sit. So I get a free quiet workspace right up to showtime!

Also, her mum gave me a couple of ornate old frames (about 23×29in each), which have sparked an idea for how to organise things.

I thought I could do three big pictures, one for each topic — to draw the eye, be a centrepiece for each section — and surround them with half a dozen small pictures in plain modern frames. 

Now I just need to find a third frame!  Been round some local charity shops today, but haven't seen anything that would complement these.  It would be really nice to find something properly 1940s-looking, art deco, but that would probably be expensive.

I also looked through the bric-a-brac to see if I could find any nice props for an installation area, but nothing yet.  Early days...