A New Toy Arrives

This is as exciting as our lives get! Lurking in our goods-in bay is our brand new computerised underpinner - it’s the machine that nails the corners together. I know, this may not seem that exciting to our customers, but for us picture framers a new state of the art bit of equipment means it might be easier to keep on top of all the orders. Actually, it means we can make an even better job of those tricky corners - the framer’s nemesis!

Our current underpinner is also a computerised machine, so this new one must therefore be even more computerised!

We’ve had a peek in the box, but there’s a lot of bits and pieces in there, so we’re waiting for Neil, the engineer who looks after all our equipment (rather well actually, but don’t tell him in case he puts his charges up!) to come and install the beast. We’ll post a picture of the new shiny toy once it’s in place - if it fits !

The Art World, plus a bit of Charity

May, June and July have gone. I’m convinced our last blog was about three weeks ago, so that just proves (again) just how time flys. Our picture framing and giclée printing world is as busy as ever and the flow of art keeps appearing.

I think in blogs, the ‘learned’ are supposed to express some great wisdom about their industry. In the absence of wisdom all I can comment on is the strange situation whereby artists seem to be struggling to sell their work. We are framing and printing more than ever, and the economy is showing small signs of recovery, but I guess people aren’t buying pictures. Hopefully it will change soon.

On a more jolly note, we were delighted to be able to give some frames to local charities. We had been making various frames from the left over length of mouldings, but storage is a problem for us and we didn’t really know what to do with them. The Harborough Mail ran a piece for us and we were delighted to donate a good quantity of picture frames to the Air Ambulance shop in Harborough, the Clipston branch of the Canine Partners charity and some to Medbourne Village Hall. Hopefully they can earn a few bob from them - and we won’t have to feel bad about throwing out loads of perfectly good frame wood!