Most of my photos exist only in digital form. I have had some of them printed, but there are only so many photos that I can hang on the walls of my townhouse. I have had some photos printed on mugs and other items, but the images don’t have quite the same impact when they are printed so small. How else can I display my photos?
My niece, Kristina Hughes, and her boyfriend, Brian Vermeire, came up with a creative way of integrating their love of art and their love of cats. Earlier this year they launched their website frameyourfeline.com that offers customized ways for your cat to become a living work of art. I encourage you to check out their website for further information, but in a nutshell Kristina and Brian have created three-dimensional boxes that hang on the wall with interchangeable art panels providing a backdrop for the cats. The boxes are carpeted and provide the kind of place where cats love to lounge and pose.
Customers can choose from multiple options for the frame style at the opening of the box and from a wide selection of art panels that include paintings and photographs, including more than forty of my images. Kristina and Brian are adding new art panels all of the time as more creative people join in the project. The photos below give you an idea of how some of my photos would look in a Frame Your Feline environment.
There is a special linited-time sale going on for Memorial Day weekend, so if you are at all interested, check out the website. Even if you don’t have a cat (and I don’t), it’s fun and a little addictive to watch cats wander in and out of these frames. You can also learn more about the background of Frame Your Feline by listening to an interview with Kristina and Brian on the Nine Lives with Dr. Katz podcast. Kristina and Brian are also comedians, so the interview is a really fun listen.
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Give your niece my compliments for their beautiful website (-shop).
They did a nice job and I wish them a lot of succes.
Thanks, Rudi. I will pass on your compliments. I think that they get most of their attention from Instagram followers, who love to post photos of their cats, but I thought it would be fun to give them a tiny bit more visibility via my blog posting. 🙂
Thanks picpholio! We are happy to hear you like our website! We took a look at your images and they are beautiful. You are talented! 🙂
Thank you so much for the compliments.
Have a nice evening and many greets,
Rudi
That is brilliant. 🙂
That is a fabulous idea! The ultimate effect is sort of what I’ve been trying to do on my site, cat pics combined with nature pics and thoughts on cats as part of the natural world.
Oh my! What wonderful cats you have Leah! 🙂
Thank you from the kitties and me, we appreciate it!
Thanks Mike! Your images look fab with cats in the Frame Your Feline system!!! We printed a few of your images for demo purposes and wow! The colors are striking on “Butterfly Lunch” which is the first image you displayed above. MEWOW! We love your images!!!
Love the middle one.. works really well and the cat’s face is so expressive!
Thanks, Liz. From what Brian and Kristina tell me, it is especially cool when customers send them little videos of their cats playing, sleeping, or grooming themselves in the frames–truly creating live performance art.
Oh my goodness, how fun! I grew up with cats arranging themselves in paper bags and cardboard boxes–this is waaay beyond that.
I catsit sometimes for friends who have three cats and am amazed at the variety of containers and surfaces where they curl up or sprawl out. I have no idea is people are buying these fancy frames for their cats, but appreciate the fact that it is a fun concept (and a new use for some of my photos). 🙂