When The Dawn Comes: A Souvenir Of A Special Memory

As you will have noticed if you've scrolled through my blog recently, I was lucky enough to have travelled all the way to Antwerp especially because Joel Morris was reprising his role as my favourite character in Cats - Carbucketty - for one month only before once more returning to his 'retirement'. As the occasion was so special, and the memory an important piece of my stage door story with Joel, I of course wanted to find a space in my home for a new photo frame for our picture together, and just to add to the significance I wanted to also have my photograph of myself and Joel from the first night I met him beside it.

My go-to for photograph frame is always Paperchase: their range is brilliant and they always have some really unique and beautiful frame to choose from. And recently, the have added a personalised range of frames. This stylish, simple frame was one of those available for personalisation and I chose one 5x7 to be personalised for my Antwerp photo and one 4x6 to stand beside it with the Wolverhampton picture inside. The frame is simply two side of gless in a thin metal frame and it comes in silver as well as copper, the colour I chose.

I think this is a really perfect way of highlighting a special stage door friend or significant stage door memory, especially if you've got a really great story to tell about your 'journey' with someone at stage door as I have with Joel. Paperchase offer several different ranges of photo frame for personalisation, and you can find those here.

As you can see - the frame I ordered arrived really speedily and I was delighted with how beautifully it turned out. There is a character limit on personalised frames, so you do have to choose your words carefully, but in this case I was very happy to keep it simple and say the only thing that really needed to be said with these two pictures now side by side, which is "Joel Morris My Carbucketty" and I love how having that simple inscription makes the photograph so much more of a talking point when people see the frame is customised.

I'm always looking for ways to keep my theatre memories close to me, and also to show as many people as possible just how much they mean to me, and I love this particular sort of souvenir because it not only gives me a smile every time I see it, but it also is great for giving me an excuse to tell people who see it the story of My Carbucketty!