June 30th, 2009

DBA'ers,

Janice loves summer and all the craziness it brings with kids and grandkids. Not only her own, but any and everyone who brings kids in the front door of the store.

When she suggested she spend a little time creating some mats to frame kid pictures…..VC and I were on board with the project 100%.

Wait till you see what she came up with!!!!!

She created personalized, school-color, cut-out mats for all the local High Schools: Commerce, Banks County, Madison County, East Jackson, and Jefferson—your mats are “run-ready” (that’s our technical term for leave the engine running while you sprint into DonByramArt and do a fast point and pick). Need a middle school or any other school? Janice can do that! She has you covered on your sports as well as special cut-outs for band and Senior picture mats!

She has mats for babies, horses, dance, gymnastics, puppy and cat mats. You get the picture! She even has a whole series of hunting and fishing mats. My personal favorite is a pink and white “MY 1st DEER” mat for the girl hunters! VC’s favorite is the green and yellow tractor mat. Says it reminds him of his favorite “back in the day” tractor. Janice’s favorite….well, whichever one she is working on at the moment!

And since these mats are the same museum quality mats as we use for our custom framing, they are archival, acid free, and will never fade. We have a technical framing term for this kind of mat…..it is called “The Good Stuff”. We have most of these mats available in standard 8x10, 11x14, and 16x20 sizes.

I’m attaching a couple of photos. One of them is Janice standing beside her mat rack holding some samples. The other picture is a wonderful little project brought to us by Lori Drummond.

Lori had an absolutely darling picture of her daughter drawn by an artist we represent, Deborah Cidboy. Lori couldn’t make up her mind which mat would be best. The pink mat brought out the color of the hat. The brown mats brought out the skin tones, hair and eyes. The blue mat brought out the clothing and background. So…..she just picked them all…..seemed like the best thing to do!! Once again, we have a technical framing term for this process. It is called “Really Cool Stuff”! The whole project was a lot of fun and looks downright fabulous! Proving it is sometimes good to let yourself go when creating the perfect mat and frame combination!

As for Janice and her mats?? It is all about kids, grandkids, and Mid-Summer Mat Dreams!