Last Day of Accepting Framing at Mouse House and News from the Church!

Last Friday, December 22nd was the final day during which Steve and I accepted custom picture framing orders at Mouse House.  The last week was CRAZY!  At the end of the day on Friday, we threw out all our mat board and moulding corner samples.  After 35+ years, we are finally in the process of retiring!  Okay ... we now have a mountain of work to tackle, work that came in during the last few days.  So, Mouse House will remain open with regular weekday hours, 9:30 - 5:00 until at least mid-January.  Yet, every day brings us a little closer to moving into the Cateechee Mill Village church outside Central, South Carolina (which is about eleven miles from the better known city, Clemson!)

 

I'm writing this blog post after Steve and I visited the church today ... Christmas Eve.  We are truly grateful for this opportunity, for the many friends and clients who frequented Mouse House over the many years (decades!), for the abundance in our lives, and especially for the wide, open sanctuary that will soon be my sacred fiber arts studio.  The floor is fabulous ... especially ...

... since all the pews found a new home!

They all went to a wedding chapel that is being built outside Blythewood, South Carolina!  It took a six man crew and five trailers to haul them away.  (Okay ... I admit it!  Steve and I kept the only two short pews.  The others were all one-inch shy of fifteen feet in length ... except the ones in the loft which were twelve feet and eight inches long!)

The removal of the pews meant that Steve and I can move more and more things into the sanctuary ...

 

 

... including tubs of yarn, the start of my Cascade Installation, The Cocoon, The Clothesline, three of our bookcases, dozens of boxes of books, and all sorts of other things.  Everything, however, is being protected because there will be some work done in this space which will cause dust!  After snapping the photo above, the wedding gowns were securely covered with a giant tarp.  My hope is that during the coming year, all the wedding dresses will be transformed into a small circus tent.  After all ... isn't a wedding a circus? LOL!  My desire to work BIGGER is truly one of the more important reasons for this move ... plus ... I can't retire from framing and stay living above Mouse House.  After 35+ years, people would still come and it would be SO HARD to say "No more framing"!

 

The progress in the living area is also moving forward.  Appliances arrive on January 2nd and the custom kitchen cabinets will be installed on the 16th.  This past week included replacing floor boards!  It is super exciting and I promise to blog more soon!