Another Year!
- At August 24, 2013
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13 Years Later…
I needed another open sign, as the last one was faded, cracked, and was looking pretty sad. It was then that I realized another year has passed. I have had my own store now for over 13 years now, and have been framing art work for over 2 decades! It has been so much fun, and the best part is the great people that we have gotten to know. When I worked as an illustrator for General Motors, I worked in a cube so I never really had the chance to make any friends. The framing industry has changed so much in the last 20 years…I wonder what the next 20 will bring!
So Can We Frame For Your Store Too?
- At August 22, 2013
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A Bulk Order For a Local Frame Shop
I person stopped by this week and asked if we could help their shop out with a large order. I said “of course!” We are pretty use to turning out large orders, in a short time because of all the corporate work we do. We currently frame for several other frame shops in the area, and we can also do your framing. If it”s because you need better quality than your sales staff can be trusted with (we have degrees in the arts and in-depth training from the Smithsonian!) or its too large of an order, we can help. All of the work we produce for other shops is strictly confidential, is produced in house, and will be produced without any of our identifying labeling. We can even apply your shop stickers and use you favorite hangers if you like, just let us know how we can help.
So Why the Move?
- At August 10, 2013
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So Why Did We Move?
Now that we are moved in and people are coming to see us at our new location, everybody wants to know, after 9 years why did we decide to move? Well, back in June 18, 2012 we had a small fire in the utility room of our old location. Luckily the Ostemo fire department responded quickly, and the damage was very minimal, but with it being in the utility room it did take out the electric, heat and plumbing. After many reassurances from the owner of the building that repairs would be quickly made, we decided to stay and reopen after the repairs were made. At 8 months after the fire, and we still had no electric in most of our building we decided we would have to move. We really hated to move from a location that we had invested so much time and love in to, but its pretty impossible to run a business without electric! Seeing that it looks like repairs are still going on as of today (yep the fire was 417 days ago!) I think we made the correct decision to move.
Our old location 14 months after the fire, with repairs still going on.
Now we are close to downtown (something we wanted 10 years ago) and have more space, at a lower cost, so we are even happier with the move. What is coming in the next year? The owner of the building will be opening a coffee shop in the front and a custom order furniture store on the lower level. Our new location is getting more amazing every day. We look forward to having you stop by and letting us show you around.
Impressing the big guy
- At July 13, 2013
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Framing Fit for The President
I think this is so cool, So when you really want to impress the most powerful man in the world, what do you get him? Framing! It always tells the story in an artistic way. Photo is from the White House Blog.
Here’s Our New Location!
- At June 25, 2013
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Our new location!
Here’s our new location, right on the corner of South Burdick and Wall Street. We are just a few blocks out of downtown, just before Crosstown Parkway. Just drive between the two buildings and park in the parking lot in the back. As we work on the coffee shop in the front (more on that later!), use the back entrance.