I'm quite ashamed of this
For an artistic type person i should have known better.
I had a commission for several paintings and wanting to keep my costs down as I wasnt being paid pots, i forgoed my usual frame supplier and bought loads of nice but cheap picture frames from Ikea.
Buyer chose the ones they liked and i got to work framing them.
I wasnt happy to find that the frame inserts were emblazened with logos.
So i got out my glass cutter and discarding the useless inserts i set to making new ones from sheets of glass in my workshop.
Several smashed pieces later I did have the pictures finally framed.
Buyer came round, was happy but decided they wanted to buy another couple.
Picked out the frames.
Great said I, but I said I needed to get some more glass first.
Biuyer 'Whats wrong with those in the frame?'
Me, they have bloody logos printed on them'
Buyer ' you do know its a protective film you peel off?'
Me 'Oh'

in my defence M'lud the local framers didnt have such new fangled nonsense

anyone want to buy a pile of Ikea frame inserts, still new in their protective film?
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 0:21, 3 replies)

Ha!
I was reading this until half-way thinking "but that's just a film they put on it..."
I end up using Ikea Fanaholm frames for all of my stuff.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 16 Jul 2010, 3:15, closed)

Me Too
Watches, calculators, all that. The problem is they're TOO transparent. BTW, try 'forwent'.
(Captain Spod, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 21:07, closed)

Ha ha ha ha
For a moment there I thought you were suggesting another frame supplier

I did look at that forgoed for ages and couldnt figure out why it looked wrong
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 21:46, closed)