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I'm happy to see that we "framers" as well as "owners"are contributing. $30.00 to most framers is equal to 2 weeks worth of auto fuel for transportation to work. What I'm trying to say is that it is a lot to contribute and it shows they care. It also shows that they care enough about framing to monitor online forums. Word of mouth from one framer to another is one way the word is going to get spread a about FACTS.

Everybody (framers, owners, suppliers) needs to work together equally to get this done. We're lucky we have the Don Pierce's and Nona Powers' (who see the bigger picture) to keep the ball rolling. It is a giant step in the industry, one that many other professions haven't hurdled.
 
Mariam Zieminski says in her note with her check, "This is an issue that is vital to integrity. FACTS provides the standards that we need, in a format that we can access." She's right.

Someone suggested we could do another set of standards if FACTS goes away, but these are so good and so uncompromised, framers need them much more than they know. No more acid free misunderstanding, no more cotton vs. purified wood pulp nonsense, we can expand them into other areas, why spend the money and time to do them again, when they are so good now? Doesn't make any sense at all. For a $30 check and support from the rest of the industry, we can make them work for us now.

I realize framers are used to being isolated and unconnected to each other because we work in our own businesses, but in order for the industry to make that leap to professionalism, we need the standards and guidelines we now have and we need to figure out how to make them work better for us. All it will take is enough framers to say yes, I care. It's important. Tell the rest of the industry you care by sending a check and do it today.

Thanks to these framers with vision:
Miriam Zieminski
Frame Masters and Fine Art
La Jolla, CA

Teresa K. Errington
Austin, TX

Judy Nansel
The Artshoppe
Bozeman, MT

Chuck Triska, CPF
Frame By Frame
Woodbridge, VA

Send the check made out to FACTS
Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
Nona, the Gulf Coast chapter of PPFA met tonight here in Houston. I agreed to give a little background on "The Nona Campaign" and share some of the comments and observations from The Grumble and HH. We encouraged attendees to write a check before they left the meeting to show support of FACTS. The last I heard we had received at least 13 checks hopefully with more to come. So be watching for an envelope from our chapter full of more FACTS support from Texas!

I would encourage everyone to communicate, communicate, communicate on this issue. I believe the support is there if we can get the word out to as many framers as possible.

Don Bowman
Glory Frame and Art
Houston, TX
 
The Wisconsin Chapter decided, at a board meeting this evening (which I attended as a guest,) to include the FACTS letter furnished by Rick Bergeron in its newsletter later this month.

The trade-off is that I'm now on the board of directors. :eek:
 
The North Texas put the letter in the current issue of "The Star", our chapter newsletter. I received it last Saturday, so lets hope the checks start coming in. Thanks to Fred Wolff at FPF Moulding for putting it in the newsletter.
 
I was out of town for a couple of days so wasn't able to post checks. A lot came in. We are cooking here. I received three from my 60 letters I mailed, so far. I hope for many more and think I will get them.

I hope your all writing and calling and giving every framer the opportunity to help keep standards and guidelines in our industry. Lois at Superior Acrylic Frame Co. in Riverside, the lady who is giving the class in Atlanta on plastic, (by the way, you want to take it because she is very creative as well as technically knows all there is to know about acrylic sheeting) is sending out flyers to her customers explaining what FACTS is and how framers can show support by sending me a check. She did this on her own because even as a distributor she sees the need.

We don't have a lot of time here and we all, every single one of us, need to write the check if we haven't, then we need to get others to write a check also. People are doing that and it's wonderful. This is all of us making this happen. It's not just me, it's not any one person, it's framers who care about the professionalism of their industry. There are several people working very hard, Jim, Ron, Jo to name just a few plus all the people who have posted and written checks. When I get to Atlanta with the 1,000 checks, those people will deserve the thanks of every framer for generations.

send a check for FACTS
Nona powers
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025

These people sent checks and again, a few for more than $30.

Brian Wolf
Brian Wolf Gallery
Wooster, OH
Everyone knows Brian, the computer mat cutting genius and all around great guy. He supports FACTS.

Kaye Evans, CPF, GCF, CMG
Consultant
Summerville, SC
Yes, the educator, writer and stitchery guru Kaye Evans subscribes to FACTS

Rob Markoff, CPF, & Barbara Markoff
Gallery Services ARTRAGEOUS!
San Diego, CA
Yep, Rob Markoff himself. He knows FACTS is good for framers and business.

Tim Franer, CPF, CMG
Tim Franer & Company
Houston, TX

David McGuire
McGuire Fine Arts Gallery & Framing
Frederick, MD

Mitch Park, CPF, GCF
The Frame Place
Hastings, New Zealand
All right, New Zealand and I have it on authority that Finland will soon join in. YES!! The FACTS guidelines and standards can be used by framers all over the world and when framers understand the accuracy and authenticity of the research that went into them, FACTS will be universally preferred.

Quida D. Lampert
Accents! Picture Framing & Design
Valdosta, GA

Beaches Art & Frame Gallerie, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL

Golden Gull Studios, Inc.
Plymouth, MA
If I don't put a name it's because I just can't read it and don't want to guess wrong.

Winchester Art & Frame
Winchester, MA

Lynn Endicott
Silver Creek Fine Art & Custom Framing
El Cajon, CA

Kathy Courtney, CPF
Courtney's Frame Shop & Gallery
Aliquippa, PA

Charles Sandercock
Summit Frameworks & Fine Art
Clarks Summit, PA

Susan Koehrsen
River's Edge Gallery
Muscatine, LA

John & Robin Noyes
The Picture Framer
Topsham, ME

Peggy Eriksen
Peggy Eriksen Art & Framing
Half Moon Bay, CA
 
I've gotten back 4 responses so far from the 60 letters I sent out. If we all just get 10 each, we will have more than the 1,000 we need. I don't want to take 500 checks to Atlanta, even though that would be impressive. It will be much more convincing if 1,000 framers stand up and say yes, standards and guidelines are important. FACTS gives the professional framer an important tool. Go to www.artfacts.org to read the documents FACTS has created. Don't let all that important work go to waste. It must be kept alive, improved, expanded, taught, widely published. Something every framer can use every day. Send your check, ask another 10 framers to send theirs.

These framers think FACTS is important:

Marie & Charles Drago
Meraux, LA

Hank Casserleigh
Nielsen Bainbridge
Slidell, LA
Hank is a very nice guy, all the Texas chapter knows him well and he works for Nielsen Bainbridge as a sales rep. We welcome checks from sales reps. It's also their industry and it's important for them to support a cause that's important to their customers.

Atkinson Frameshop & Gallery, Inc.
Concord, MA

Ann T. Hast, CPF
The Gallery at Framer's Corner
Dallas, TX

Allen Carson
art center picture framing
Corpus Christi, TX

Artvest/Master Restorers
Westerly, RI

Richard B. Lundine
A Thousand Words Cultural Photography and Custom Framing
San Diego, CA

John Miller
John Miller, picture framer
South Yarmouth, MA

Notice how many checks are from the NE chapter of the PPFA? They have gotten the word out!! Texas has gotten the word out. So many PPFA chapters are working hard to make this campaign successful. All framers should be very grateful.

Send a check made out to FACTS
Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
Suzanne Hollibaugh was part of my committee writing the Consumer Guide to Conservation Framing our San Diego PPFA chapter did in the eighties when the whole "acid free" mess created so much confusion over what was a good board for preservation framing and what wasn't. The subject was confusing to framers and to consumers. The members of the committee did independent research trying to find out what had what in it, what was harmful, what was not and it was very difficult to find the truth beyond hype. Do you realize we are still in just about the same place today? Read over the ads, how many do you think are really, totally true? We did the flyer, with the amount of information we could find but it was no where near as good as the work FACTS has done. Our flyer we wrote and our chapter members used helped explain the difference to everyone but FACTS is a very good, well written group of documents, that if used to their potential, with the total industry supporting and using it, could help every framer know for sure how, why and with what. With 1,000 framers stating that they think the work is important and they will support it, FACTS can be the tool we all need. State clearly, YES framers want and need FACTS, send me a check for $30 and call, write or visit other framers in your area and get them to do the same.

I sent one of my 60 letters to Sue and here came her check today. I knew she still cared!! Do you? All of these framers care and have sent checks:

Suzanne and Bob Hollibaugh
The Collector's Choice
Valley Canter, CA

Elizabeth & John Gilbert
Bayberry Studio
Nantucket, MA

Victoria B.
Victoria Art & Frame
Watertown, CT

Jean Garlick
Wordyisms, Inc
Pflugerville, TX

More framers from the NEPPFA chapter. Another from Texas. Which state has sent the most by now? Which chapter?
 
MORE CHECKS!! There are so many great framers who do want what FACTS has to offer them; professionalism, a way to get answers, training, sales help, and the confidence to know they are doing it right. As soon as we get FACTS on it's feet, and we can do that if enough framers thinks it's important, then we can figure out ways to get FACTS to be and do even more. It takes money, but more than that, it takes commitment. YES it's important, YES, I will subscribe and support FACTS. Send your check today or if you've already done that, get others to send theirs. It will take the help of everyone to get 1,000 checks by Sept 20th. No one person can set by and let others do it. In this case, we all need to do it. Please help and you help us all.

Send a $30 check, or whatever you want the amount to be. The amount is not as important as the fact that I get 1,000 checks. Each check represents a framer who wants FACTS. There are approximately 17,000 framers and if each of us on the Internet get 10 of them to send a check, we will exceed 1,000. We'll save FACTS and we'll show how powerful this medium can be. I have almost 200 and they are in a big envelope. I will need two or three boxes for 1,000. Dragging that many checks to a meeting of concerned people in Atlanta will be impressive. Help me reach the goal.

If your not sending a check it means you don't want FACTS and couldn't care less. At least that's the way I read it.

These framers care and put up their money to show it.

Mark Sweazy
Lexington, KY

The Galleria
Lexington KY
He sent one for himself and one for his gallery. Good idea!

Trade Winds Gallery
Mystic, CT
I wonder if this is the wonderful little shop we visited when we were in Mystic?

Judith Baar, Inc.
Pleasanton, CA

Cheri Mccartney, CPF
Nielsen Bainbridge
Roseville, MN

Make your check made out to FACTS and send it to:
Nona Powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:11:29 EDT
From: NonaJoe@aol.com
Subject: 797 checks needed for FACTS!

We now have over 200 framers who say YES, we need FACTS and will support it.
We can do this, we will do this. It's too important to not do it. Use
Rick's letter, send out Alice Gibson's article, do whatever it takes. Time
is fleeting and we have a ways to go. We are the only ones who can do this.
We're the knights in shining armor and when FACTS is saved and being all it
can be for the industry and every framer in it, you can be proud you had a
hand in it. I knew framers cared and so many of you have not let me down.
Go one step further and find other framers who care. I know they are there,
help us find them.

These framers care:

Joan Grothues and 9 employees
Art Inc.
San Antonio, TX
A check was sent to cover herself and employees.

Robert Grothues
San Antonio, TX
He cared so much he sent his own check in addition to the company check.
Incredible.

Mike Kodler
Woodland Art
Faribault, MN
As he says with his check to cover all; we have 5 framers at our store. We
all support FACTS.

Mike Menasco, CPF
Irene Menasco
Artistic Indulgence
Minneapolis, MN
A check big enough for both.

Iris R Milazzo
Cincinnati, OH

Bruce Westphal
The Great Frame Up
Indianapolis, IN

Anonymous
Waukesha, WI

Eric Jarmann
Eric Jarmann & CO. Custom Picture Frames
Newburgh, NY

Send a check for any amount made out to FACTS ($30 is suggested)
to: Nona Powers
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
One check yesterday and two today. I do hope the volume picks up, or this is never going to work. Please, help all you can. I know many of you are and if anyone has an idea to get to more framers, please share it. This campaign cannot fail, it cannot. Too much is at stake. If you haven't sent a check, now it the time. $30 or more means FACTS will be here for all framers to use in the future. There has been so much generosity, I am truly awed when I look at the pile of checks I have. There are so many framers who care so much and have written encouraging words. Send a check or ask someone else to send a check made out to FACTS and address it to Nona Powers, P. O. Box 600025, San Diego, CA 92160-0025

These framers care:

Hannu Nystrom
Kehystyspalvelu Galleria Nystrom
Tempere, Finland
Canada, New Zealand, now Finland. All right!

James Ellis
The Village Framery
Palestine, IL

Elizabeth Stanley
The Paisley Print
Hagerstown, MD
 
Several checks today. YES!! 1,000 framers care, we just need to find them before Sept 20th. Thanks to all who have sent checks. Thanks to these framers:

Georgia Walker
Casco Bay frames
Portland, ME

Dora Bixler
Artrageous
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

Vicki Schober
Brookfield, WI
Vicki's company has the most beautiful papers and Faux Fillets. A very nice lady.

Peggy Allen
House of Frames
Harlingen, TX

Carole Saucier plus 4 employees
Quality frames & Art
Austin, TX
Carol sent a check for her and one for her four employees. Great!!

PPFA's challenge of chapters for the free trip for two to the convention next March in Vegas and I believe there were several challenges by states. I haven't been keeping track, but there sure seems to be a lot of checks from Texas. I don't know, it might be close here. Contact framers in your community and get them to subscribe to FACTS. We all need for FACTS to stay available as a tool for all of us.

Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
www.nonapowers.com
 
Checks for FACTS. Thanks framers, as Margaret wrote, "Even the naysayers will thank you someday." That is the truth, plain and simple, except, the ones they will be thanking are all the pioneers who had the vision to send a check, including Margaret. There are too few of us right now, we need a lot more and fast, but we can see what is good for us, now we need to convince others. Get on the phone and call the framers in your area. I sent out 60 letters, have gotten back 6 checks, I just got two more, but now I'm going to call those 60 framers and tell them to do it NOW!!!! They want to join this incredible list of great framers who do care:

Margaret Test
Art & Frame Gallery
Hermitage, PA

The Frame Shoppe
Gainsville, FL

American Choice
Jackson Heights, NY
I can't read the name, but the framer sent over $30. Almost enough for two framers. We've had people sending money for employees so I'm going to go back and count all of the checks that are for a lot more than the $30 and count them for other framers. If some people believe in FACTS enough to send way more than $30, then that should count. Let it count for framers who aren't as progressive in their thinking. Sound fair?

Gail Grosshuesch
Cardiff, CA
Gail is a sales rep for Neilsen Bainbridge and serves as the secretary for our greater San Diego area PPFA.

Armida Zapata
D'Armi Art and Framing
Bonita, CA
Armida went to Mexico and personally invited several framers to come to our meetings. Three joined the chapter. She's a lovely, gracious lady.

Take care everyone, and please help anyway you can
Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
www.nonapowers.com
 
I went through the checks and counted everyone who had paid more than $30, divided it by $30 and we now need 753 checks. Still a lot. Our goal is $30,000 and we have $7,420.37 Going through the checks reinforces, to me, that there are 1,000 framers who care, it's just a matter of getting to them before Sept 20th. Kind of looks like a high mountain to climb, but I do still think we can do it, we just need to do it. Several chapters have written about FACTS in their newsletter. The PPFA did a report on FACTS, Picture Framing Magazine published an editorial on FACTS so the word is out there, it's just getting the framers to set down and actually write the check and send it.

These framers sent checks. They vote YES for FACTS!

Angie Day
Day's Shoppes
Hagerstown, MD

Don Dolan
Soulard Picture Framing
St. Louis MI

Kathy Carpe
Fairfield Framing Gallery
Fairfield, OH

Kimberley Breil
Frame & Picture Shoppe
Willbraham, MA

Moynihan
Moynihan Art Gallery & Framing
Holland, MI

All of these framers believe in the professionalism of picture framing and are willing to support it. All of you who have not subscribed, why? Your letting all of these framers down, plus yourself by ignoring this worthwhile cause. Send a check today, it will only take a minute. Make a call to someone and ask them to send a check. There is still time if we all just do it.

$30 check made out to FACTS
Nona Powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
It was pointed out to me that framers should be counted, not monye, at any rate, for now this is the correct count, except it really isn't, because several of the checks I recieved were for mom and pop shops and I only counted one even though both of them were sending the check. This gets very muddy. I just know we are no where near 1,000.

It seems inconceivable to me that we will not get 1,000 framers who care about professionalism and who won't send me a check for $30 to prove it. Just cannot for the life of me, believe such a thing is possible. Some people have sent checks even when they couldn't afford to and that shows real dedication to their profession. How come these people can have such vision when those of you who haven't sent a check have so little? Amazing.

I got another check from my 60 letters. YES!! That makes 7. Send out some letters, make some calls, it works. It would only take 100 of us to get 10 each to reach 1,000. Don't wait for others to do it, you do it. Follow up with a call.

These framers believe in what FACTS is and what it can do for their profession.

Bridget Willis
Bruce Matheson
Picture Perfect, Inc.
Aberdeen, WA

Kathy Lusco
Beveled Edge Custom Framing
Claysville, PA

Michael Jones
Lesley Jones
FASTFRAME La Jolla
San Diego, CA

Sam S.
Brown's Creative Picture Framing
Winona, MN

Mark Butwinski
M&M Distributors
Tennent, NJ
Mark is the general manager of M&M, selling glass, supplies, equipment and also serves on the PPFA board.

Send a $30 check made out to FACTS
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
Mark is the general Manager of M&M's and it's in Tennent, NJ. How do you like the way I move compnaies around and give them new owners?

Also Ellen Collins sent the check for Angie Day from Day's Shoppes, she didn't write it.

OK, all is right with the world, but it would be better if I had at least 800 checks by now. I just called some of the people from my list of letters I sent and have promises for more checks. It works, help by writing and calling.

FACTS MUST LIVE!!! FACTS MUST LIVE!!! FACTS MUST LIVE!!!

Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
www.nonapowers.com

Could you tell I always wanted to be a cheerleader?
 
Mr. Greg Goman sent enough for himself and 5 others. Thanks Mr. Goman. Susan Ohlendorf sent one for her and one for someone else, and I received another check from my 60 letters which makes 8 I've gotten back. I almost have my 10, I hope your working on yours. I made some calls yesterday and I'll be getting more; it seems people will, they just haven't yet. At the Greater San Diego PPFA meeting on the 5th I should get more because no one is getting out of that room without writing me a check if they have not done so already. :) The crowds will part as I walk through huh?

This weekend I'll go through and actually count the framers, mom's and pop's who have subscribed instead of checks or money. The framers are what count here and the mom's should count just as much as the pop's, or the significant others or the children of, or whatever else the combination of a business is. The one thing I do know is they are great people with a lot of faith and encouragement and a need for FACTS. We will make it, just keep plugging along!!

Thanks to these framers:

Greg Goman and 5 others
The Frame Studio
Capitola, CA

WFM Corporation
Pflugerville, TX

Susan Ohlendorf
Creative Accents Of Austin, TX

Gary D. Sisel
Frames Del Mar
Del Mar, CA

Georgia J. D
Braddocks Trail Gallery & Gifts
North Versailles, PA

Arthur Blumenthal
Brockton, MA

See, I told you they're great people.
Write a check for $30 or more, or even less, made out to FACTS
Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
Some more smart, handsome, or beautiful, whatever the case may be, great framers who say YES to FACTS. Thanks for having foresight and being willing to stand up and be counted. (No matter what you look like your beautiful or handsome automatically when your so smart.) They say flattery will get you anywhere, I'm hoping for 1,000 framers.

Bill Williams
Bill Williams Frame Shop
Sandston, VA

Elaine Slater-Kogler
Skaneateles Framing Co.
Skaneateles, NY

Kim K. McKeown
Bolton, MA
New England PPFA

W. Steinway
Steinway Gallery
Chapel Hill, NC

Kirt Floyd
San Diego, CA

The Hitchhikers and Grumblers have been very generous and supporting of FACTS. I'm hoping their friends and neighbors can be talked into being generous also. Give them a call and see When you explain what it's all about, they will get it and will be happy to subscribe. Trust me, they will.

Send a $30 check or more, or even less, made out to FACTS
Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
<<Go back to the 1000 framers being more important than the dollars>>
<<I guess I need to send another $20 to go with the last check to cover all four of the CPF's here.>>

Bless your heart Frank, YES, YES, YES!!! Several framers have paid for their employees. Anyone, help yourselves. I'll take another check for FACTS.

I got a check today for $60 and the person wrote, "For me and someone who didn't or won't or can't."

I love you all, I told you framers are just plain great people. If this campaign doesn't prove it, I don't know what will. Yes, it may take awhile to get em moving, but their heart is in the right place and as far as FACTS goes, so are these framers brains. So many of you recognize what a valuable thing we have in FACTS and are willing to support it. Just wonderful.

Ralph Fahringer, CPF
Fahringers Framing Gallery
Ellsworth, MA

donation
anywhere USA

Harold S. Faust
The Framemakers
Waterville, MA

Mark Klostermeyer, CPF, Director PPFA
Design Frames
Falls Church, VA
The PPFA national board is really showing their support. I think Mr. Pruitt was one of the first to send in his check and most have since then. The industry owes them a thanks for their service and their subscriptions to FACTS.

William R. Elam
Leyton Artworks
Sacramento, CA

Mark ?
Junction Frame Shop
White River Junction, VA

Richard Sturdivan
Ricks Custom Framing,
LA Mesa, CA

Rick was on the committee I headed in the 80's writing a Consumer Guide to Conservation Framing flyer for framers to use in their shops to help counter the acid free and museum confusion. Framers would advertise they were doing museum framing, but when the jobs were taken apart, I don't believe any museum would really spec a job that way. With FACTS, the guide is obsolete. Anyone can go online and find out how a piece of art should be framed, plus a lot more. Keep the checks coming and get others to send theirs. Rick was another person I sent a letter to, didn't get a check so I called him. That makes 9. See, it works.

$30 check or more or less made out to FACTS
Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025

If I can't read your names, please let me know so I can do a correction. I truly want everyone who subscribes to FACTS to be thanked and recognized. Someday, down the road when more framers realize how valuable FACTS is and can be, I want the framing industry to know who the people were who stood up to be counted, the ones who saved a valuable resource for everyone else.
 
A conservator from Vancouver sent a check, two more very well known educators in the framing industry have sent checks, plus a framer. These people see the value of FACTS and are standing up to be counted among the subscribers. Stand with them, send a check, ask someone else to send a check. We can do this. 1,000 checks before Atlanta. JUST DO IT!!!!! PLEASE!!! NOW!!!!

Rebecca Pavitt
Fine Art Conservation
Vancouver, BC
Thanks so much Rebecca!

Chris A Paschke, CPF, GCF
Designs Ink
Tehachapi, CA

Brian Barnett
Brian Barnett Associates
Dunwoody, Georgia

Joyce Michels, CPF
Michels Frames & Things
St. Robert, MO

Send a $30 check, or more or less, made out to FACTS
Nona powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
More checks. I realize many have given up, but that's a mistake. The news is out there now and it wasn't when we started. Think of how many more people have heard of FACTS now than had before? Make some calls, give all framers a chance to subscribe. I just went to the FACTS website and made a sheet we are going to use in the educators meeting and my lectures. There is so much information on that website. How can we let it die? How? It's way to valuable for the industry and for each of us as framers. Go, take a look. www.artfacts.org

We will be able to put a box in the Nielsen Bainbridge booth to collect checks, plus I will speaking about FACTS three different times during the show. Please stop by and encourage others to come and deposit checks in the boxes. We need to get 6 or 7 hundred before Atlanta and if we do, we can finish the count before Sunday morning if we all work at getting the word out. I will have a flyer encouraging people to subscribe to FACTS. Would some of you who are good writers send me what you think the flyer should say? I want a very convincing flyer telling people why they want FACTS and why they want to subscribe. It has to be short and definite. Not a lot of words. Concise. Help me with it please because I tend to be too wordy. (Who me???)

Raphael's will have a box in their booth also. I'm firming up other locations. Is there someone out there who could make the boxes on stands out of foamboard? Someone driving to the show. We need 6 or 8 boxes with slits for envelopes or checks. Jim is swamped but said he could print out signs.

These people care and stand up to be counted:

William B. Adair
International Institute for Frame Study
Washington, D.C.
Thank you very much!!

Kimberly Ahern
Art & Framing Council Director
Brentwood, CA
Thanks Kim for your support!

Kelly & Eric Leitner
Art & Frame Depot
Coral Springs, FL

Marie E. Kluttz
Frames & Art by Kluttz
Concord, NC

Ursula Overdiek
Hang Ups
Austin, TX

Janet Burke
Eclectik Framing & Art
Columbus, OH

Kirsten Knoblauch, CPF
Framers Workroom
Jenkintown, PA

Sylvia B. Dahl
It's a Frame Up
Fairfield, CT

Terry Farrell, CPF
MFA, Inc.
Spokane, WA

Don't listen to the naysayers. We will do this. Don't give up, I'm not.

send a $30 check, or more or less, made out to FACTS
Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
Jay & Victoria Ford
Gallery At Lands End
Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA

Bill Dean
Leucadia, CA

Carol Johnson
San Diego, CA

Doug Hartwick
Mom & Pops Frame Shop
Sun City, CA

Coulter Marshall
Sales rep for Larson Juhl
Santa Fe Springs, CA
About to be a new daddy.

Jose ?
Elegant Photo Arts & Frames
San Diego, CA

Rita Chemers
Rita Chemers Gallery
Orange, CA

Barbara Sandman Rogers
Trabuco Canyon, CA

Yael N Gmach
One Upon A Frame
Solana Beach, CA

Peter & Linda Doyon
Frame Design
Temecula, CA

Mel and Gerry Shusterman
Art Angles, Inc.
Orange, CA

We need a few more checks, but if we can get this mnay from one PPFA chapter meeting, you can to. Come on, ask, cajole, twist arms, smile sweetly, talk passionatly because you DO CARE, but get them to send a check or write you one on the spot then send them all to me.

Nona Powers
P. O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
I sat and counted the people who wrote checks, both mom and pops and the total money and as of this minute, we have 332 framers and $9,631 for FACTS. We are about 1/3 of the way to saving FACTS. If we can get over or around a total of 600, I know we can get the rest at the show. So many more know about it now, it should be easier to get people to subscribe.

Several distributors are sending out notices with their bills so that should help. In the end it's going to be up to us. I got the last of the 10 framers I pledged from my 60 letters. Seems like it should be more, but they say 10% is good. Apathy is a hard thing to break. If you haven't called framers after you sent letters, do so, because it does help. A couple of the framers who said they would send checks did so after our local meeting. Rick from Coer d'Alene told me a distributor up there Terry Farrell, had sent out letters to his customers (MFA, Inc.) and one person who sent in a check did so after receiving the letter. It reminded them. By the way, Terry had subscribed to FACTS without telling me who he was. I find that remarkable. He's not the only one to have done that. We need checks, anyone in the industry can subscribe and if you care about the professionalism of framing, you will support framers and FACTS.

I did get several checks in the mail on Saturday. These framers care about their industry and have stood up for FACTS. We all thank you. (These are included in the current count.)

Sue May and Linda Foote
Family Crafts, Inc.
Glenn Dale, MD

Lance Enevoldsen
Imageland
Hamilton, New Zealand

Christine N. Flanagan
Sales rep for La Marche, Williamson, APF
Imperial Beach, CA

Twyla M. Cecil
Cecil's House of Photography
San Diego, CA

Jay Smith
Frame-Tastic, INC.
Gainesville, GA

Catherine Milligan, CPF
The Best Framing & Design
San Juan Capistrano, CA

Patricia P. Nichols
Podesh Artworks
Colorado Springs, CO

Derek & Christine Vanderberg
Frame of Reference
Bigfork, MT
Another PPFA board member!!!

Anonymous
Montana

Shirley Damon, CPF
Shirley Damon Galleries
Vienna, VA

Anonymous
Virginia

Wendy & Robert Durci
Framemakers
Austin, TX

Send a $30 check, or more, or less made out to FACTS
Nona Powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
More checks and great things are happening. I'll fill you in when I know more but we are going to do this. Keep plugging, it is going to work!! All of OUR work and passion will not be for naught.

These framers care and were willing to stand up and be counted:

M.B. R??
FASTFRAME #229
Lafayette, CA

L. Beckley
The Village Frame Shop
Mendocino, CA

Donna Moon Rosser
Moon's Variety & Frame Shop
Centre, AL

Darrah
Darrah's Decorator Center, Inc.
Walla Walla, WA

Carol Conway-Horner
Frame & Design
Alamo, CA

Richard Dormitzer, CPF
The Freewheeling Framer
Vineyard Haven, MA

Nina? (looks like Paul Frederick had her send a check and the note was written on the bottom of one of the letters? See, it works!!!!)
The Painters Place INC.
San Francisco and Berkeley, CA

Margaret Cushwa
Maggie's Hang-Ups
Hagerstown, MD
 
Hello Nona,
I have my check in the mail. I have been busy this summer, and don't visit the grumble often, but respect what you, Jim , and others are doing.
After reading as much of this thread as time would allow, I feel that a generalized description of FACTS would be extremely beneficial. I also think that,if neccessary, more funds are needed, (maybe suppliers, although a bit scary for them possibly)to get a copy into as many framer's hands as possible,for their comprehension.
I am sure it would not be unreasonable to add this website, or HH's to the info sent for them to call upon if they need questions answered...
I understand the need for these guidelines, but many may not. I know many who made sceptical remarks about conservation framing when it first became knowledge. They thought it was a bunch of bull, designed to give us a higher-end product to sell.
Some of my sales reps have said the same. That buffered regular mat is pretty much the same as museaum rag mat. WOW
I know, and have known, this is not true since I began painting. Even so called "acid-free" paper that was cheap, is now yellow, sitting in my studio, unsold. I can also see all my scrap matboard sitting in my HUGE shelf, which one is not browned, and which one is still white. Let's not mention the pictures I have seen that are actually damaged from matboard.
If OUR suppliers do not have to answer to us, than who do they answer to. I am not trying to get down on anyone in particular, but I have heard things that do not make it easy for me to believe in the business I work for.
If my reps, or anyone that I deal with for my product, do not know what I am striving for in my business, than I am not so sure my customers do.
These facts will give us control over our product, as well as make us the true "experts" of our field. Some may be afraid of that qualification, albeit, not even neccessary. But I for one want to be held to the highest standard for the profession that I am in.
If indeed, FACTS can help me achieve that standard, I am all for it.
 
Lots more money and wonderful framers who sent the checks, many for much more than $30. One person sent less, but said more would come when possible. The standards are so important that even though the framer couldn't afford to send any, at least some had to be sent. That is an example of the dedication framers have to their industry. That's why when I show some of the letters, all of the checks from so many places from so many framers, the rest of the industry has to take it seriously. If we fail to save FACTS, as I said, it's not because framers don't care. It's because we couldn't get to enough in the time allowed.

Can't read the name, sorry
Canal Gallery and Frame Shop INC.
Merrickville, Ontario
Another Canadian!!!

Susan Gittlen, CPF
Whispering Woods Gallery
Holland, PN

Greg Brodnick
Florida Frames, INC.
Clearwater, FL

Evelyn Ward de Roo
Softouch Solutions, INC
Petrolia, Ontario
Another Canadian. (Softouch is the software company called FrameReady, a great point of sale software.)

Kathleen Johnson, CPF
San Antonio, TX

Eva Hathaway Reed
Artworks
Wooda Hole, MA

Peter V Gumina
National picture Framing Centers
San Francisco, CA

Linda Roberts
Altedena, CA

Susan Lehmann
Monroe, CT

Pamela D. Rykken
Art At Heart
St Louis Park, MN

Bob, Oberlin
On The Wall
Santa Ana, CA

Robert Bottge
Framed Image
Pompton Plains, NJ

Sarah Balinskas
Sarah Balinksas
Houston, TX

Send a $30 check or more, or even less, made out to FACTS
Nona Powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
More Checks!!

Robin Box-Klopfer
Personal Touch Conservation Picture Framing
Flanders, NY

Graig Smodgrass
Vinyard Frame Designs, INC.
Dallas, TX

Pat and Bill Bradley
Bradley's Art & Frame
Houston, TX

Rick Potts
China Basin Designs
San Francisco, CA

Nancy Donatelli
Donatelli Designs
Walkersville, MD

If you haven't sent your check yet, make one out to FACTS, we take any amount and mail it to:
Nona Powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025

If you don't know what the fuss is all about, visit www.artfacts.org to find out.
 
More checks and framers subscribing to FACTS.

Barbara Bell Gould, CPF
The Lady Framer
Petaluma, CA
Another framer via Paul Frederick. Wish everyone was as successful at getting checks as Paul has been. Way to go Paul!!

Charles R & Mary Helen Jackson
Affordable Framing
Alpharetta, GA

Jack Kupsky
Clayton Road Framing
Chesterfield, MO

The Goose Pond Gallery
Morgan Hill, CA

Gina M. Bellando
Frames & Framers
Short Hills, NJ

Donald W. (CPF) or Catherine L Denier
Bergsma Showroom & Design Center
Port Angeles, WA

Max & Jeannette Peterson
Orange Crate Framing
Huron, SD

Thanks to each of you for recognizing the need for FACTS and being willing to stand up and be counted. If you have not sent a check yet, send $30, or more, or less made out to FACTS
Nona Powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025

If you want to help in other ways and plan on being in Atlanta, volunteer to staff the FACTS booth for at least one hour during the show, or help to set up the booth itself on Thursday. Write to Sandie (info@littleseba) for booth staffing and to Mike for set up. (mjbeharry@techn)
 
This is the final count before I go, because I fly out tomorrow morning. My husband will tell me what we get between now and Sunday morning when the fate of FACTS will be decided and I'll post it Saturday evening. I will also post whether we accomplished our goal of saving FACTS or not. Hopefully the people in the room at the meeting will pledge the help we need. I know we will get the rest of the funds for FACTS from framers, but it will take a little longer than I had hoped. I don't feel like we failed to reach our goal, I feel the Internet, even though a powerful tool, did not have quite wide enough reach to get to as many framers as we needed. The other media, newsletters, magazines, will work, but it will take more time. Did you all read Jim Millers piece in Picture Framing Magazine on FACTS? I'm sure there are people who have read that and read this and have not subscribed and I'm very sorry you have not because you truly are not thinking the situation through. Think about the history of this industry, how much standards have been needed and honesty in advertising, how can you not have had that check to me immediately? OH well, everyone who had the foresight and hindsight to recognize how badly FACTS is needed and the faith to know it can be even more than it has been, you sent checks and I'm here to tell you that someday, the industry will recognize your contribution, not just to FACTS but to the whole industry.

These people cared enough about the industry they work in to send a check, to support FACTS:

Doug Highfield
Art Enhancement, INC.
Irving, TX

U-Frame-It
Burien, WA

Ann C. Welch
Nunnally's Framing
Anniston, AL

Vikki R. Espinosa
Bishop Art Custom Framing & Gifts, INC.
Dallas, TX

Victorie V. Heidorn
Surrounding Gallery & Custom Framing
Gardner, MA

Diane Transue
Transue's Framing
Kittanning, PA

3+ framers
Zia Chapter of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Charlotte Chaney, CPF
The Frame Up
Mount Vernon, TX
This was with a letter from Ann Hast. Great work Ann.

Thanks to all. There is still time to send a check if you do it right now.
$30, more or less, made out to FACTS
Nona Powers
P.O. Box 600025
San Diego, CA 92160-0025
 
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