Like bodyguards, picture frames protect valuables from earthly perils such as kidnappers, misguided meteors, and kisses from fan club presidents. Protect paintings and photos with today’s deal: for $40, you get $80 worth of custom framing and more at Lewis Picture Framing, located just south of Amarillo College on Washington Street.

Lewis Picture Framing’s experienced frame architects construct frames and cut mats to assemble customized frames in-shop. Choose from more than 2,000 frame samples to artfully encase family portraits, paintings, and antique Garbage Pail Kids. Custom framing includes molding, mats, glass, backing, and assembly (an average $150 value) and emergency framing is available for last-minute gifts. Lewis Picture Framing’s quality frames take the art of hanging art beyond such jejune measures as tacky industrial-strength sticky tack, staple-tape taple staping, and hiring long-armed men to hold your art against the wall.