Joann's framing saga continued...

I also recommend getting your poster and taking it to a professional framing place. And before they damage it, if it hasn't been damaged already.

I have a girlfriend that worked at a framing store for years. She would tell me of some of the disasters that came in the door that people wanted to have fixed. She felt so bad for them because they ended up paying the framing store price, plus the cheap store price for wherever they took it in the first place, and usually the item to be framed had damage of some sort.

She said the shop owner would usually give them a small discount since they already paid someplace else, like Joannes. She figured once they got their item back from her, done correctly, that they would spread the word to friends about where they should be going the first time. It was advertising for them to make sure that person was extra happy after being so upset with another facility.

They also framed things like clothing. I remember one story about a baby's outfit that belonged to this woman's mother. She was having it framed to put along side the framed baby outfit of her own and her child's. She wanted them all to be in the same frame. Unfortunately, the little dress was ripped at Joanne's and they had to do some finessing and folding of the fabric to hide it. My friend said it looked fine at the end, a little pucker here and there, but the woman would always know that Joannes ripped her mother's baby dress.