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The Framers Alphabet!

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Framar - a regular contributor to the Grumble - (U.S.A. framer's forum) has started new topic ...
A list ( still incomplete) of all the things a framer can frame ! :o

I have added it below
Please add anything that's missing!
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The Framer’s Alphabet

A - art, artifacts, articles, antiques, ancestor photos, album covers, autographs, aphorisms, announcements, arrowheads, action figures, appliqués, animation cells, animé, aquatints, architectural renderings, art glass, awards,
B - batiks, buttons, badges, beadwork, book jackets, books, botanicals, bouquets, bones, baby pictures, Bar and Bat Mitzvah photos, blueprints, baby bonnets, baby booties,
C - cards (playing, greeting, business, calling, tarot, trading), counted cross-stitch, children’s photos, collections, creations, comic books, comic strips, cartoons, collages, calligraphy, coins, calendars, charcoal drawings, charts, Christening gowns, crewel, collectibles, commendations, certificates, canvases, charts, coins, currency, citations, cartes de visite, cartouche symbols,
D - diplomas, documents, drawings, dried flowers, digital art, dolls, daguerreotypes, diagrams, designs, decorations,
E - event programs, ephemera, embroideries, enamels, engravings, etchings, encaustics,
F - flags, friends, fabric, flowers, family photos, family trees, finger paintings, flyers, feathers, figurines, fans, floor plans,
G – grandchildren photos, grandparent photos, grandbaby photos, game boards, graduation photos, garters, giclees,
H - hole-in-one, honors, houses, hair clippings, half tones, hunting horns, hats, hieroglyphics,
I - ink jets, insects, idols, invitations, illustrations, images, illuminations,
J - jerseys, jewelry, Judaica,
K- Ketubahs, kid art, kid photos, kimonos, kidney stones,
L - letters, logos, limited editions, lobby cards, landscapes,
M – mandalas, memorabilia, marriage certificates, military medals, mementos, maps, magazines, mirrors, movie posters, magazine articles, montages, maquettes, models, miniatures, musical instruments, mosaics, murals, masks,
N – needlepoint, needlework, needle art, newspaper articles,
O – oil paintings, objet d’art, one-sheets, origami,
P - photographs, prints, papyrus paintings, paintings, postcards, petit point, pastels, pictures, paw prints, plates, poems, pins, posters, pages, pennants, portraits, Papal Blessings, pencil drawings, puppets, panoramas, Polaroids, puzzles, pony tails, pressed flowers,
Q – quotes, quilts,
R - relatives, ribbons, reticules, relics, remembrances, reproductions,
S - snapshots (have prints made now before your dog eats your phone or your hard drive crashes!), samplers, silk embroideries, serigraphs (silk screen prints), seashells, stamps, scarves, shawls, sports stuff, scherenschnitte, sheet music, souvenirs, sculptures, shirts, still lifes, silhouettes, seascapes, sketches, stained glass, scrimshaw, sand dollars, star fish,
T - tiles, tickets, tools, trinkets, tempera paintings, toys, treasures, tintypes,
U- ultrasounds, uniforms,
V - vacation pictures, vistas, verses, velvet paintings,
W – watercolors, wycinanki, woodcuts, wedding photos, wedding bouquets, wedding invitations,
X – X-Rays, Xeroxes,
Y – yearbook pictures, Yin and Yang symbols, yoga postures,
Z - zoo animals, zodiacal charts,
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Thanks for sharing, how many can you tick off as done?
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I'll have a count later :lol: ........i dont see Sporran or Butterflies though :rock:
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Golf ball, marbles.

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I don't know what half of them are even. :oops:

I think Mar once tried framing a woodpecker but it chiselled itself out and flew off. :D
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Quite interested in the techniques required for "friends" :? . perhaps one just plants some drugs on them and calls crimestoppers :twisted:
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Fishing rod. Oh and a €5 note with an inscription "In emergency, please break glass" I even stuck down the €5 o sticky board. Talk about conversation :clap:
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And gold bars! :o

Someone asking on TG how to frame one !

http://www.thegrumble.com/showthread.php?t=52996
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Berlin Wall. Done a few bits of that in my time
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