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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yikes! I was just making a frame for some art
work out of a black-painted lath being nailed onto a stretched canvas, when the
old lath did not saw perfectly, I did not have enough lathing for another piece,
and I had to deliver the artwork to the gallery in a few hours. I put it
together the best I could, putting the broken piece towards the back, and
filling in the splinter with more black paint, which dried quickly,
luckily. Also, the four sides did not fit together perfectly, which looked
kinda tacky, but it all sort of went with the art, which was a collaged teacup
made out of tea tags I's collected for a decade or two. Linda PS I 'd
sewed the teacup part onto the white stretched canvas background, figuring if
anyone wanted to buy it, they could ask a better framer than me to put it into a
better frame. As it turns out, my son Greg had been a professional
framer "to the stars", but he did not have time to make me someting
better, plus the sewing on part was his idea. As it really was, I kinda
liked the tacky frame better than any I'd seen in a framing
store.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>