So Joanne’s is having a 60% off sale on framing today. And only today. It happens once a year, according to the lady at the frame counter. We found out about it yesterday when we went to check out stamps and stencils for the kitchen and decided to come back today to see about getting some things framed.

Dan has had his diploma’s for the past 6 years or so rolled up and my Mom promised to frame them for him for his graduation present, when we found framing on sale. We also have a gorgeous dragon print that he bought back in 2000 or so at DragonCon that we needed framed. And since I just got my AA we had that diploma as well.

We headed to the store and got to wait in line for about 20 minutes while the people at the counter helped the people in line in front of us. It was then our turn. We started with the Dragon picture. We wanted a fairly nice frame and look for it, because it is a nice piece of art. It took about 30 minutes to finalize what we wanted for it, it will be really nice. Then came the price, let’s just say that even at 60% off it was high.

Next we did my diploma went for a simpler look since it was only my AA. The price wasn’t too shocking, though it probably would have been cheaper to frame it ourselves. We chose a very nice frame though and it should look good. This took about 15/20 minutes

Last came Dan’s Diplomas. He graduated with two Bachlors in 1999, and his Masters in 2001. So he had three Diplomas to frame. After decided that putting all three in one frame would be huge. We decided that we would frame each seperately, but with the exact same look. Since we had been working on framing for a bit Dan had already chosen the frame he liked so it only took about 15 minutes to get everything set up for his.

We then came to the fun part, which is paying. Let me put it this way, I am really really glad that the framing was 60% off. As it is it is costing us more then buying all the books for this semester at the bookstore new. If we were paying full price, well the 15 inch Apple Powerbook is about equivilant.

The frames are really nice and we really needed to frame the things we are framing, but dang I didn’t quite realize that an easy way to solve the national debt would be to have everyone pay the price of having a picture framed.

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