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Framar

Framar

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A customer had an old gold stacked frame that had been in her family for three generations. The outer frame had missing and crumbling compo, the inner panel had ugly soiled ribbon glued onto it by her grandmother. The inner frame was amazingly intact and the mirror itself was in fairly good shape for its age. The customer wanted me to fix it up and paint it to go in her little daughter's room. Her daughter is age 7 and her room is pink and she loves princesses. Mom wanted to keep the original mirror because she loved the idea that both her mom and grandmother had gazed into it.

So I peeled off the ribbon, sanded down the panel, repaired the missing chunks of compo (made a silicone mold and cast replacements with epoxy putty), gessoed the entire frame, painted it Peptoabysmal pink, did several layers of a white wash, then went over the leaf designs with a pale green, sponged on a bit of lavender, coated the entire frame with iridescent medium, rubbed Liberon gilt varnish over the inner and outer frames, added a narrow row of small clear beads, and embellished with rhinestones.

Mary Jarvis (Maja) created the purple lettering for the mirror and voila!!!

And no, I did not charge any where near enough for this but I hope to create a mini Princess Frame business, now that I know what I am doing!
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Wow! The Pepto is not abysmal. You can never charge enough for something like that. :thumbsup:
They don't have it on the shelf at Target. :icon11:
 
Well I guess I didn't see the first coat but I know for sure that there is a lot of time and labor in that frame and you've gotta like what you do to put that kind of effort in creating the finished piece for your client.
 
That nails it... I was NEVER an actual girl it seems... Gotta admit you did a really nice job and it is very charming, but If yours truly had come home to that..I`d have freaked! L
 
I can't say that I have ever been much a girl, Laura, but the little girl this is for is so perfect and adorable and smart - as is her mom, I just got carried away - it wouldn't go in my house either!!!
 
Mom showed me the pink bedroom with the pink bedspread and the closet full of pink clothing. If my mom was not already dead she would have thought she had died and gone to Heaven if she had seen this kid's room! (She really wished I had been a girly girl) (ack).
 
Very nice Mar.:thumbsup:

Bet you enjoyed doing that. :D

I did a bunch of girly frames last year. I had a lot of slightly damaged ornate readymades in my shed that had been there for a while. Some were modern, some were olde. A lady artist customer of mine does a lot of girly paintings and usually paints on boards. So I had the idea of getting these frames and fixing the dings and refinishing them in a girly finish. They were all odd sizes, but not problem. Whatever size they ended up as, she did a painting to fit.

Here's one...

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Nicer than horrible dark gilt. :)
 
Mar, that came out so great! You are so talented. Your customer and her little girl are lucky to have you.

BTW, that would actually fit perfectly in the shop bathroom, lol. All pink and purple.

Thanks for letting me help make your customers day!

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Mar, I think you tapped into the repressed Girly-girl hidden deep within your psyche. Just don't stay there too long. Matter and Anti-matter kinda thing.

Excellent job.
 
Thats a MILLION times better than any gold frame!!!!!!!!
LOVE THIS!!!!

Great job babe!
 
Fun!

Love the irridescents!

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It's beautiful Mar! I've been following along as you've been working on it. Glad to see the finished product!
 
Mar; I must have missed it on facebook somehow...this is absolutely beautiful; how happy this little girl must be!!!!

I'm not a pink girly girl either and it wouldn't go in my house but it came out perfect. Great job and must have been a ton of fun to do!
 
Ylva said:
how happy this little girl must be!!!!
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Um, mom has not picked it up yet - she is waiting for her commission check.

OTOH - Nicole got to see it in person today!!!!! :)
 
Thanks Edie - I think my dear mother would have been very proud of this little mostly-hidden shiny, sparkly, pretty side of me. :party:
 
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