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I am pleased to have finally finished my third custom framing project and gifted it to the not~so~newlyweds~anymore. 🙂 Now I really need to get crackin’ on my brother’s wedding gift. He was married in…oh…let’s see…*2003*!
This was my most challenging project so far, thus the procrastination. It has multiple openings, six of which were double matted. The two word inscriptions have a stepped-cut mat, and the little spiral embellishment has a hexagonally-cut mat. I made a mistake (well, two mistakes, actually, but we can count it as one); I’m hoping nobody but me will notice.
Gratitude out to Amanda S. for helping me print the inscriptions and to Gregg and Cathy for the long-term loan of their Logan mat cutter. I used David M. Logan’s book Mat, Mount, and Frame It Yourself as my main primer to learn mat cutting and basic framing techniques.
For this piece, I used a store-bought 16 x 20 frame, acid-free Crescent mats #____ and #________ from Blick, and glass from a cheap poster frame that is now displaying the poster from the “On The Day You Were Born” show at Orchestra Hall.
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I completed my first custom framing project just over one year ago. In the late summer of 2007, I reorganized Uncle John’s bookshelves in Finland. This little fairy was peeking out from behind the shelving. I thought it a most unsuitable home for such a sweet fairy, so I set about providing a proper home. I confiscated said fairy for a number of months, procrastinated until December, and then framed her up *just* in time to offer her as a Christmas gift to Uncle John. This was a single-opening double mat. The biggest complication was the size…very long, narrow dimensions. Also, I constructed the frame myself from molding a selected on ebay.
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Jeff asked me if I’d be interested in offering this service for his clients. My initial reaction was, “No way! This is a labor of love.” The only space I have to do these projects is my hardwood living room floor. The only time that space is available is in the middle of the night, when the boy is sleeping. Also, I have no room for an inventory of mats and molding.
But on second thought, I do think I would enjoy messing about with a limited number of carefully selected client projects, especially if they were flexible about the timing. I really enjoy this particular creative process, and I certainly wouldn’t mind actually earning an income again. Perhaps I could earmark the funds for health educator training at Hippocrates or Tree Of Life, or perhaps one of those women-only offshore sailing classes.
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