Mud and Musings and Ramblings

And....the snow... amiright? We had to close due to the snow a couple of times, I always want to stay open, but people come from as far as an hour away! We will always let people know via text and email and most of the time I call as well. Winter in New England... what can you do? As many of you know, I am struggling with my relationship with social media. I always ask customers how they found put about us, and lately people have been saying "instagram!" UGHHHH LOL! I poste

It's cold out! Come and make art here with us! My friend asked me "what do you want?" when I was lamenting to her about business ownership and how our "store" is also a studio and we tried selling coffee for a year and I was unsure of what direction or thing to focus on - thanks ADHD. She said "what do you want?" and I said... A cool place where people can come and make art or be creative and have snacks and coffee and chat and just "be" etc... and she said... "So you want ar

Greetings and Happy New Year! I decided to start a blog to replace the social media stuff... for now. Call it an experiment! I looked back at how much time, energy, money, and emotion I had poured into the social media aspect of this business... and the return on that investment did not materialize. In fact, it did the opposite. I felt drained, sad, tired, angry, jealous, and overwhelmed trying to keep up. Social media never existed in my younger days, and we got along just