• Welcome to the Framer's Corner Forum, hosted by the Professional Picture Framers Association. (PPFA)
    You will have to register a free account, before you can SEARCH or access the system. If you have already registered, please LOG IN
    If you have already registered, but can't remember your password, CLICK HERE to reset it.
Get Framing Advice

All the nuts!

Mikki Kavich MCPF

Mikki Kavich MCPF

Frequent Poster
 :
Messages
689
Loc
Crossville, TN
Company
Mikki's Frame Shop
Ever notice that if a day begins with NUTS they all fall out of the tree and come in the same day?

I spent 1 1/2 total hours with someone today to help figure out how to make their enclosed trailer in to a rolling bulletin board.

Guess that is why I bought the 60' roll of cork.

ANd the lady with a 5 year old and the lady that wanted to spray paint one of the most gorgeous antique music boxes I have ever seen.

All the nuts one day!
 
Yes, it was Outside Day at the Nuthouse for us, too. Thank goodness there were three staff to rotate through them. And you have met these very e Nuts too.

1) I want a white mat (on a 70 year old lithograph). No, yellow; no, green. Not that shade of yellow. Don't they make something in between these two?

2) I want this to fit into an 18 x 24. How much will the mat be? But only an inch wide. But I want it to be only a half inch from the image. But I want it to fit into an 18 x 24. Don't tell me, I used to put together frames in my uncle's shop.

3) I want to hang this on the wall ( a 30 pound plaster bust, with no way to attach anything to it, already broken once, by a semi-famous artist) I don't want to set it on a shelf. What about a deep frame? What about a metal frame? Why CAN'T I use a frame? What if I don't want it framed, but just mounted?

And that was just the morning...
 
Good to hear we all have the same problems, no matter where we are located.
I got a customer in the other day who asked if I frame cross-stitches. Yes, I do. Good, she said, I have one at home I like to have framed. I will bring it in one day. Why didn't she bring it in straight away?
 
I'm always stunned by the ones who park their car, walk in and ask about getting something framed. I then ask them if they brought it with them and they say, "Yes i'll get it out of the car". Meanwhile I have to stand around looking like a stale bottle of drink, while they go out to the car and get it. What do they think a framing shop does, I often wonder. Perhaps they think we do acupuncture or map making or even indoor whaling??? I just don't know!

Oh yeah, last week I had three people who came in and said "I have a picture about this big" (holding their hands up at varying distances from each other) "how much will it be to frame it. I only want something simple. I don't want it to take away from the picture!"
I usually explain to them that my main aim in life is to make framing so flamboyant and wildly decorated that you will never, ever even notice there is any art in it! Not!

I often think I should keep one of those special signs under the counter to present them with and say "Here's your sign!"
 
Ormond, I thought that it's-in-the-car routine was unique to my part of WV. It happens more than once a week, and it is always new customers.

I always suspected that they wanted to make sure there weren't any ax-murderers inside before they brought in their art. It seems to cross all genders, ages, levels of education and economic status. If it is a world-wide phenomenon, perhaps we should consider offering curb-service.:smile:
 
I had a guy last week bring in a buch of certificates, picked out framing for them then asked if I could frame photographs.....???? When I said sure..... he said I have them in the truck, I'll go get them...

Nope! I only frame certificates and puzzles nothing else! And only puzzles of lighthouses and Last Suppers!
 
When prospective customers ask "Do you frame needlework/photos/certificates?" or whatever, I usually respond with a line I stole from someone else, who I can't remember, "I will frame anything that doesn't have to be fed or taken for a walk!" They usually take a minute or so to catch on!
 
Back
Top