Once upon a wedding dream I had a vision of a detailed, scroll-y, old-fashioned, square picture frame painted in a bright, shocking color. Something like this:
I searched for months for a frame that I could spray paint into my vision, but these frame-sellers knew what they had was precious and priced it accordingly. I was not going to spend $40 bucks on something I would be shellacking with yellow paint.
Eventually I found this:
It was not scrolled, nor was it square, but it was $3.99 and the most promising prospect I'd seen in a while. So, I bought it.
Then I sprayed it,

