Everyone's idea of "art" varies, depending on what that person finds pleasing to the eye. I prefer things that are sentimental, homemade or heirloomish. A giant painting, however beautiful it may be, done by someone I've never met in another country I've never been to holds little value on my walls. For example, one of our favorites is a mounted sailfish passed down from Ian's grandfather. Another is a set of rubbings a friend of his family did. They are very unique and accent our fish-camp/nature inspired home
Our most recent masterpiece was done 'in-house' ;o) We took up hunting last year and would like to add a new variety to our nature-inspired decor. For Christmas, 'Santa' gave us a puzzle of a buck and doe in the woods. It was 1,000 pieces - our first puzzle to do together. It was an ongoing project we could work on at our own leisure and spend some quality time together while making custom art for our home. Although it took us 6 months to complete, it is now done. We "Mod Podged" it and framed it with an old frame we had lying around ($0). Because the puzzle wasn't quite big enough to fill the frame, I went to Hobby Lobby and had a mat cut to fit the frame and compliment the colors in the puzzle ($12 mat). The puzzle itself was $14 online - or so Santa told me :). If you're going to frame a puzzle and don't have an extra frame lying around, you can of course go to a thrift store and find one of suitable size, spray paint it a voila! So for a total of about $30, we now have a 22"x30" piece of custom art in our home. It is sentimental to us because we did it together and spent quality time together talking and joking while we puzzled. Good times. 
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