follow-up post: erica's vintage menus

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Thanks to all your great suggestions (and a little detective work on my end), I finally decided on a game plan for my vintage menus. Like many of you I’m sure, every month slipped in with my mounds of Junk mail is a free Val-Pak of coupons. Generally it gets tossed with the rest of the junk, but this month I was waiting for it. I had seen in the window of the frame store around the corner an advertisement for a “26% off -coupon in this months Val-Pak.” Aha! Perhaps custom-framing isn’t out of reach. With coupon in hand I headed down to the frame shop. After bit of bargaining and the promise of all my future framing business I made a deal with the framer on 7 of my favorite menus. Custom-framed to my exact specifications for just under $20 a piece. Not too bad considering one at regular price would set me back $47! So here they are, all in a row. Hope you like! — Erica P.

Joan

Very nice.

Bluehillgold

Nice job! The thin frames do not detract from the menus themselves. Sounds like you negotiated a great deal on the price too!

Ellen

Terrific!! The menus look great and the price was right!

They look great! I’m gonna try to use your framing trick to get my new series of photos framed, thanks for the tip!

Mer

They look wonderful! I love stories like this.

what a brilliant idea! i love the simple design of the black frames too, lined up along the wall is beautiful.!