Shameless plug...

[jim_p]

I've made noises about this before, but now it's official: I'm
now in the custom picture framing and art-dealing business. I'm
doing this part-time while I balance building the business against
my day-job, but I plan to make the gradual transition to fulltime
within a year.

My website (currently a single static page but I'll make it real
soon) is here

I am, of course, offering my best discounts to friends, family,
and early supporters :)

As a "grand opening" special, and partly to shake down my
procedures, I'm making the following hideously generous offer:
for the first ten artists who reply, I'll frame one piece
for FREE. That's right... the first one's free :) We can
also discuss selling your work on consignment.

Comments

[carakarena.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!! Congratulations!!!!

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

YAY! that's really cool :)

[thespian.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

So do you need a good (inexpensive) web developer who can do design, programming, and all those niggly little user interface things that make a website good? :-)

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... if it doesn't break the bank we can talk :) I'd like to make my site look good and professional, and I do want to offer certain ecommerce options (e.g. print and art sales). I was basically thinking of dressing up the Agora shopping cart (since my hosting provider offers it free), but if you have better ideas I'd like to hear it...

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Great! I have several pieces I can send your way.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Cool! For you, I'll make a house-call :)

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Congrats
If you ever get big enough to need to hire someone, I know how to cut mats, and frame stuff. I mat and frame all my embroidery pieces for myself.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Great! If nothing else I might need some assistance during crunch periods (which I hope to have at some point :) )

In fact, could you teach me to frame embroidery at some point? Needlework is something I have almost no training or experience in

[ceo]

Yaay! Good luck!!

If you don't mind a bit of unsolicited constructive criticism: I'd make the A in Baldwin lower-case. Right now it says either BAldwin Hill or B Aldwin Hill (or maybe BAldwin BHill), and looks funny.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Okay, so that makes two people who parsed it that way. I'll fix it as soon as I can get back to my Windoze box...

[silar31.livejournal.com]

Yay Jim!! Once I get back out of school and into a routine, we'll need to talk. I'll want an occasional bead tapestry framed and I'd rather give you the business than anyone else. I'll have a look around at some point here and see if I can find and info on framing beadwork...thick matting and lots of pins, I'd guess :-) Talk to you soon!

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I can think of a couple of possibilities (the major thing I don't know about framing needlework is handling and securing it... I can imagine the rest of the process :) )

Thick matting might be one approach. Another would be a shadowbox, of which several designs are possible. I'll have to look at it and see...

[lothie.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!

[myclosetdrama.livejournal.com]

That's really great! Congratulations!

Since I'm considering grad school in the area, I will hopefully be able to be of some help to you then. Too bad I don't have any framing skills.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Brandeis, right? Any other schools you're considering? Planning any trips out here to check the place out?

I can teach you some framing skills if you'd like... as my framing instructor would say, "It's not rocket surgery"...

[myclosetdrama.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I'm also thinking about Boston University and Boston College. If I can afford it, I'm going to go visit. If not and I get into one of those, we can meet up.

LOL It doesn't hurt to learn a new skill.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Now go change that 'A' into an 'a'.

Silly person.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

At this rate maybe I'll keep the "A"... that's gotten me more attention than any talk of framing ;)

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Add me to the list of people who sees that as "B! Aldwin Hill"

[shoebox-bird.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

If it's not too late, I'm in for the artist thing. I have some photographs I'd been thinking about framing and maybe someday showing. :)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yay, congrats! I was thinking if I had anything worth framing, then sold two framed pieces today. So yeah, if it's not too late.. :)

(And I noticed the A thing as well. I definitely didn't read Baldwin.)