Tuesday, June 20, 2006

I need a frame

Yup. You'd think it'd be a simple thing. But alas. It seems that it's going to be a major pita. I want a frame for this picture of Dad and me.

The rub is that the photo's 42 years old, and so the picture size is odd. It's only 3.5 x 3.5 inches. And no, a 4 inch frame won't do, as the guy in the store suggested. The only 3.5 inch square frames they had at Aaron Brothers had sparklies and bugs and things. Fru-fru.

I want a simple frame. Understated. Elegant.

Aha, says I. I'll go look on eBay. I found a leather one (simple, but not my style—way too much leather, would over-power this small photo), and a curved one that's double sided (photo on each side), and a sparkly one (ick). That's it.

I looked on Froogle. Found a nice wooden one for $13. Walnut costs, but hey, it's very pretty. They want almost $13 to ship the thing. Please. It's a tiny frame. C'mon folks. I know it won't cost anywhere near that much to ship it.

I did lots of different but similar searches on Google. Nada.

Sigh.

Does anyone have any ideas of where I can find a 3.5 inch square frame online that won't kill me with shipping costs? I'd appreciate it if you can point me somewhere. Thanks!

1 comment:

  1. What about matting it to make up the difference in size?

    And yep, I remember that weird size camera. I had one as a kid, although it was getting to be really hard to find film cartridges...

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