I’m writing this post with my family hat on, as opposed to my normal Geek beret.

My sister is a picture framer, and she entered a framing competition with the Fine Art Trade Guild at the end of April.

I’m so proud that she won First and Third place for the two projects she put forward in the North West category. She’s now in the national competition, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for her!

This is not my normal choice of topic, but I can crow-bar some technology related things in here though:

• For her first place entry, she scanned the image she was framing and printed an enlarged copy in muted shades. She dry mounted this image to mount card*, and used this for an outer mount.
• And for both projects, she used a computerised mount cutter that she programmed with the shapes and sizes of card she needed.

Here she is with her winning project… she’ll hate me for publishing this!!

*Just a quick translation - in the UK framers use “mount board”, this is known as “mat board” in the US.

Just a quick note - I’ve re-created my feed with Feedburner because it’s been frequently up and down.

Fed up of seeing the note “your feed cannot be displayed”; and the solution offered by Feedburner support was to perform a traceroute… this went over my head, and with no instructions, and feeling too lazy to search for the answer I opted for the shortcut of just making a new one.