From our customers---
Thank you so much Shari, you are too sweet. I was never interested in carrying frames because they seemed like more of a hassle then anything. I purchased a few from my color labs with print orders and they were awful, really terrible quality, I was embarrassed to give them to my clients! It seemed like offering high quality frames would be a huge investment in samples and a hassle to sell them. Plus the cost to the client would have to be outrageously high. So now I just tell them to go to the local framer.
Then I found your products on Proselect and fell in LOVE with them. I'm opening a new downtown studio and rebranding and feel like your frames will really fit in with my style and appeal to my target market. I'm transitioning to inperson projection sales and believe the frames will sell themselves since it will be so easy to show what the final product will look like in proselect.
I really look forward to building a relationship with you, thank you so much!
PS- did you recognize your frame in my last blog post of my son who lost his first tooth? I'm so excited about your products!
Anna
I'm so sorry I didn't get this to you sooner. I wanted to let you know that I got the frames. I LOVE THEM!! Thank you soooooo much. I waited to order the print till I got the frames, so glad I did cause I ended up doing a totally different image and making it landscape for the damask frame. The prints came today and now I just need to put them all together.
I'll send pics soon and get a post written soon too, but I just wanted you to know that you did an amazing job, and the square frame is awesome and I love that you have a note about not laughing at the packaging - awesome! Love it all. love, love, love it all!
Talk soon,
Leah
"Thanks again. It is beautiful!!!!!!!"
Patricia
"Shari,
I love your frames and we just got our Photos back and of course they are unbelievable, what an artist! The pictures will go on narrow walls but I think will support your wonderful frames on the first floor. I am trying to make choices and do it asap as I am having family come in and would love to have them displayed on the walls.
I love the Lady bug with perhaps peridot instead of red since it will be on terra cotta. I also love the crackled white frame in your gallery with the little girl and mom at Eden's entrance. I like them all but for our pictures those two stand out."
"I received my package today and I love everything. To be honest, I was quite nervous investing in all of this because I am anal and like to see what I am buying. What I mean by seeing is touching. =) It is really hard for me to invest in something that I can't touch. I am so happy and thankful that I found you. I almost went with {another company} at the last minute and looking at the pros and cons and I just loved your customer service and something just told me to go with you. I'm glad I listened to my instinct. =)
Thanks for everything and I can't wait to order more!! I will definitely be sending you pictures once my frames are finished. It is going to look awesome with the pictures that I chose."
Chaplains’ Spouses Provide Healing Space for Combat Veterans
By Heather Owens, Carolina Living editor
“Healing happens in an environment which promotes healing,” said Chaplain Lt. Jones Ofuasia, chaplain of the Tarawa Terrace Chapel.
The Marine Corps Base Chaplains Office and the Chaplains Spouse Association, an organization of spouses of the nearly 50 chaplains in the area, recently provided more life and appeal to the offices of the Deployment Health Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. The result was an area of calm and repose where combat veterans could wait for appointments or participate in meetings to further progress their healing.
“They worked [in the buildings] to make them a healing place for Marines and sailors coming back from combat. I cannot tell you enough about the transition which they made,” said Ofuasia.
Shari Telleen, wife of Chaplain Cmdr. Brad Telleen of Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, spearheaded the project for the Chaplains Spouse Association. “I just ran with someone else’s idea,” said Telleen, adding that she felt the project was important for recovering warriors because “it looks like somebody cares when you walk into a place that is esthetically pleasing.”
Telleen, who has personal experience with interior design through owning a contract painting business and a picture framing Co. called Creative Dragonfly-handcrafted frames, and a group of approximately seven volunteers, took stock of the situation. The waiting rooms, hallways, restrooms and meeting spaces of the Combat Health Center required some reorganizing and decorative touches.
The group spent about three and a half weeks shopping for and gathering items for the Deployment Health Center’s campus. Other groups also chipped in to the cause as well.
“The Protestant Women of the Chapel, headed up by Donna Milliner, were instrumental in providing most of the pictures for the walls,” said Telleen. Milliner is the wife of retired Chaplain Capt.Edward Milliner, the former command chaplain of Marine Corps Base.
Later, the group of volunteers gathered to hang pictures, rearrange furniture, hung curtains and added decorating details such as live and artificial plants, throw rugs and interesting lamps in the buildings.
“These are not things the Marine Corps would typically buy [for decorating a space]. The military would probably buy something showing a Marine with a gun,” said Ofuasia, noting the volunteers went out of their way to provide items which would promote tranquility and healing and not invoke painful memories.
The volunteer’s work will leave a legacy of hope not only for the Marines and sailors who use the facility, but the staff who work their as well. “The day we were up there, everybody who worked in the offices couldn’t be more appreciative. The offices were already decorated nicely, so what we did [by decorating the hallways, bathrooms, waiting rooms and meeting areas] was just a compliment,” said Telleen.
