A close friend of mine recently brought her new daughter, Nola Diana, home from Kyrgyzstan. It's been her life-long dream to be a mom and she finally made it. (The travel was tough, but her mom went with her to assist on both trips) I've done a lot of photo retouching for her and one in particular really jumped out as needing to be something more permanent and, well...wall mountable. So in between the two other projects I have going in the shop right now, I put together a quick picture frame for the shot from a short wenge board that my cabinet maker neighbor gave me awhile back.
Two things...the frame turned out nicely, despite my frustration with the material and...I'll never work with wenge again. There are just some materials that you can learn to hate really fast and this was the one for me. Splintery, nasty dust, tears out too easy, etc. Love the look, but not the work!
At any rate, this will be a special holiday gift for my friend. The picture shown in it is a quick comp print for sizing, but I think you can see enough to understand why the picture is so special...a one in a million shot that after removing a hand in Photoshop, etc., that just says, "wow"!
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