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Mat Sale - 10% OFF thru End of May |
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Website Promo Code: FDNL4690
Offer Expires May 31st, 2008
Frame Destination is having a sale good thru the end of May on all of our Mat Board products. This discount is on top of our already double digit quantity discounts. For example, our 18x24 mat for 12x18 artwork is normally $10.06. If you buy qty 4 the price drops to $7.44 and then with this sale it drops down to $6.70 each for a total savings of over 33%. Our picture mat board line includes inexpensive paper mats for decorative framing, mid priced 4-ply Bainbridge AlphaMat for archival picture framing, and 8-Ply Bainbridge AlphaRag for museum quality and eye catching depth. Note: This sale does not include foam board backing, clearance mats, or shipping. |
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Inexpensive Artshow Framing Tip |
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I recently saw a great tip from Larry Berman of www.ArtShowPhoto.com on the Yahoo Artshow_Photo forum. Most of the photo sales at art shows tend to be matted; however, it is important to have framed pieces on the walls of the booth to help draw in potential customers. He mentioned that some artists will take a matted and mounted photo, shrink wrap it, and then place it in the picture frame. If you shrink wrap it well enough it will look like glass and keep the artwork protected from investigating fingers. This results in an inexpensive framed piece that is also light weight and free from breakage issues. It will not be any more scratch resistant than acrylic, but certainly a lot less expensive to replace. |
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More Baby Hawks |
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 Some of you may recall from last year that we have a Hawk's nest in a cell tower across the street from our picture framing shop. Well this year they had two baby hawks instead of one. I took some more photos and although the cell tower doesn't exactly make for a beautiful backdrop, I was able to capture the shot here. One of the parent hawks was sitting on the top of the tower over looking the nest with the two children on the lower level. All of sudden, I noticed what I believe to be a Mockingbird start harassing the hawk while the children were watching. Fortunately for me this went on for nearly an hour. My camera is an early generation digital so the time between hitting the shutter release and the shot actually being captured is far too long and fps is slow. When I felt the Mockingbird was getting ready to strike I would hold the shutter release down and hope. I took hundreds of shots but finally captured this one where the Mockingbird is getting ready to grab at the feathers on the back of the hawk.
We brought up binoculars and our employees enjoyed watching the hawks on their breaks. It was fascinating to watch the process. I didn't realize this before but the parent hawks actually take turns sitting on the eggs. We would see one fly into the nest. The other would stand up, stretch it wings and fly off. Then the one that recently arrived would sit down and take its place for several hours. Later we would enjoy watching the parents feed them and eventually just drop food off into the nest. We also got to see the babies stretching their wings and hopping around the tower before finally taking off and flying. |
