I promised Pictures so here they are :D

Here is our Christmas Tree this year :) Real quick I feel like I need to explain the fact that it is a real tree, its kinda confused a few people. The first question I was asked about our tree was basically...'but you cut down a tree, isnt that kinda the oposite of what you guys are all about.' That is why I need to explain ;) At first I felt the same way....but after doing some reading it is actually better to buy a real tree, because in short.......Christmas Trees are farmed and each time a tree is cut down from one of these farms it is replaced by at least one tree, and sometimes more. The amount of trees that are grown for this reason help to remove from 40 to 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. So if these trees weren't farmed that carbon dioxide would still be in the air. And you think artifical trees will last you 10 to 15 years...think how long they sit in the landfill....pretty much forever!! Besides Christmas Tress were originally put up to show life in the dead of winter, and they smell good ;)
We opted for a tree that had not been cut but instead still had the roots in a pot, so that next year it will be bigger and we can use it year after year....or until Joe & I kill it like we have almost every other plant we have had :(




This is a view from the door looking towards Joe's bench. This is where he does all the "clean" work for framing, so that customers can see the process. Thats my most important customer there, Sophia...oh and my dad is the guy holding her ;)




This is another view from the door looking towards our moveable walls. We have 1 big one and 2 small ones right now but will be building more later on. We've got them on wheels so that we can easily change the set up! That is all Brian's art that you can see on the walls!!




This is the setup we had for Amy's art during the first weekend of the art walk. We had her prints and her originals sitting on the bench. We've brought in some shelving from our house that we have them on now for the next weekend.




And this is a view from the outside look at the new store front!! I've got to get pictures up in a album thingy on pica or whatever showing the process from the old store front to this!! Remember it had the glass all the way across the front with that UGLY green brick!! Well its not done yet but thats it so far! Our carpenter is an amazing guy and did so much more than we had imagined when we first decided on doing this! It took a lot of hard work on his part and then a lot of painting on our part to get it looking this great! Plus an interesting night and a Kari freak-out to get the glass out....but thats another post ;)

I'll get more pictures up soon! But for now...I've got to get back to work