Well, I will be honest and admit to having used contact paper to make face plates to match the customer's request. Some were just plain ugly, but all that it took was a trip to the grocery store and a razor knife to make it happen. Many happy customers with many ugly phones and many Ben Franklins in my pocket for doing so.

I lived in an apartment that had a gas stove, yet I spray painted housings out on the terrace and brought them inside to dry on the kitchen table. I never used the stove (afraid of it), but it had pilot lights inside. All of those paint fumes and pilot lights....NO, there wasn't an explosion, but something happened to cause a disgusting smell. My apartment smelled like a cross between an auto body shop and kitchen grease. I had to move away after about a month.

I wish you could do these things now, but since nearly every phone is shaped like a football (thanks, Cisco!), all we can say is that "you get what you get".

Craft disease.....What did you say? Now that's a good one!

Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX