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Rick Granick

Rick Granick

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This is for a kid's room. Needlepoint by Grandma. Frame is a Bella. Red linen mat, CC glass. Height is about 24".
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Cute! I like the red linen mat, Rick. Was it hard choosing the red colour? I find that sometimes the more colours that you have to choose from, the harder it is to make a choice that looks good with the other colours. Did you choose red because it was the background colour behind the letters?

btw, the frame is great too.
 
Yes, I picked the red to make the letters stand out. Fortunately, I think this piece was stitched pretty carefully, so it wasn't too hard to keep the border even. Where they become a problem is when you have those parallel liney borders and the parallel lines themselves aren't perpendicular to the edge of the stitched border. As Chief Engineer Scott used to say on the original Star Trek, "You canno' change the laws o' physics, captain!"
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Ah, man, I thought someone had done a sampler of Eric Burden and the Animals! I guess I "gotta get outa this place" more often!

Great job you did with it!


A for Animals
B for Byrds
c for Clapton.....
 
P for Peter Gabriel
Q for Quicksilver Messenger Service
R for Ray Charles
S for Steely Dan

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t is for tool
u is for U2
v is for Van Beethoven
w is for Weezer
x is for x
y is for Yusef Islam...Cat Stevens
Z is for Zoot Suit Riot
 
Rick Granick said:
This is for a kid's room. Needlepoint by Grandma. Frame is a Bella. Red linen mat, CC glass. Height is about 24".
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Nice work. How did you sell an expensive Bella frame to someone for a kid's room? I always get price resistance for kid's rooms. Maybe that's just my area.


Have you sold a lot of the Bella line? I have only sold one glitter frame and that was for a collage about the person who ordered the frame, not for a 13 year old princess. I haven't ordered more of the Bella line but I was tempted at WCAF. Such a nice designer booth/room.
 
Kirstie.... you were looking at it the wrong way.... It's not kid art for a kids room...... it's hundreds of hours of love, passion, devotion that will be shared with that child the rest of that child's life. #5 OEM Silver, reg glass, and turn over with ATG just isn't going to cut it.

When something like that comes in, more times than not the first thing out of the framer's mouth is "how darling". Which means you just dismissed it to the "cutsie" pile.

First words out of our mouths is always "OMG, that is amazing.... how many hundreds of hours did this take to do?"..... right away you are reinforcing their invested effort and energy. They will never go back.
 
Words of wisdom, Baer. But you already knew that, Kirstie. Ordinarily what you said applies, but what Baer said trumps it in a case like this.

Yes, I like the Bellas. Most of the ones we use are the inlays and colored birdseyes. I sent back the glitter samples because they were 10 times too expensive for a novelty item. Plus, I hate glitter. It has a way of flaking off and finding its way into finished fitted frames, then not showing up until after the back has been sealed.

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Rick, is that a beaver or a squirrel in the X place? Either way, I can't for the heck of me figure it out. :popc:
 
shayla said:
Rick, is that a beaver or a squirrel in the X place? Either way, I can't for the heck of me figure it out. :popc:
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Good question. I remember discussing some of the animals with the customer, but I don't remember that one. Whatever it is, it appears to be holding its appendages in the shape of an X, so maybe that's the answer.
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Or, maybe its a xenophobic squirrel.
 
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