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Special care is taken in the matting of the art pieces from the subtle shades of the mat colors to their exact proportions. All Treasured Sculptures are double matted. |
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| "Measure twice, cut once" is a rule followed not only by Vermont furniture craftsmen, but by Marie, too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| From a single print through the matting and framing process, Marie can spend as long as two to three months to produce a final work of art. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The several layers that make up the final three dimensional work require extra care in the final matting and framing steps. All are framed in solid wood frames behind glass. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marie also cuts her own oval mats in which all of her flower and birds works are framed with the exception of "Roadrunner" which is placed in a rectangular frame. |
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| "The Farmhouse" is a popular attraction at Marie's craft show booth to which she often takes as many as 60 to 70 of her works. Those and others on are the following pages. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||