UNDERPINNER!

This arrived at our doorstep on Friday. Here Chuck is tearing into the box! This was revealed:

Justin and I started cutting away the wrapping...

And we have a new UNDERPINNER! This pneumatic machine allows us to put together securely the four corners of your frame! I'm gleeful because once we build a table to accomodate it and get the compressor hooked up to it, I won't have to drive up to Manchester-by-the-Sea anymore! We can do all your framing in so much less time!

Wendy

The Art Corner

231 Washington Street

Salem, MA 01970

978-745-9524

artcornersalem@verizon.net

Photos of our Flowers

Saturday, I was helping a customer out with her purchases when I noticed a couple of visitors to the flowers I had planted out front.

Wendy

The Art Corner

231 Washington Street

Salem, MA 01970

978-745-9524

Artcornersalem@verizon.net

Random Images

Here's the back of the Cherokee loaded with moulding to be stored in my Mom's basement for the duration. The Cherokee is a God-send and a Work Horse. I want a Mini Clubman, as it has cargo space, but NOT like the Cherokee! Heap much praise on the Cherokee! Invaluable!

Here is what is left of the cash register. A melted lump of plastic.

Here is a shot of the right front window area, as you face the building from outside. This is the area where we had our art exhibits. Behind the rather Roman looking column/pedestail, you can see the singed fronds of one of our palm trees. The store plants didn't make it, though the goldfish did!

This is a framed print of a very well known science fiction/fantasy artist Dean Morrissey. Dean was the Artist Guest of Honor at this year's Boskone, Boston's Regional science fiction convention. A friend of ours bought this Fine Art print and entrusted it to us to frame. He also bought one of Chuck's giclee prints of "Stonehinge" for us to frame. Both were in the fire. The Wizard print survived, though the frame was charcoal. The Stonehinge print was not so good. We'll replace it.

This is Gary Laparl, president of the Salem Arts Association, myself, Chuck and Sara Ashodian at the Toast Benefit. Largely enjoyed by all! What a great night! It was SO much fun, I can't praise enough!

Here is one of our "lobster dishes" that we use for our receptions. They are antiques. They were on the top shelf in the back room and got nicely scorched. After scrubbing them well using Dawn and Scotch Brites, we have this. Instead of all the elbow grease and time wasted, though, I have resorted to putting them in my dishwasher and MOST of the soot has dissappeared!

These are some random images from the last three months.

Wendy

The Art Corner

231 Washington Street

Salem, MA 02970

978-745-9524

artcornersalem@verizon.net

New Work Tables

Heres' how we spent our Fourth of July vacation--building work tables! The place we rented for our temporary location had many perks, including two sheets of 30"x72" particle boards. We used these as our table tops and built a framework of two by fours and one by fours.

We added locking castors. This feature is GREAT! We can move the heavy tables around at our will! Mostly, we will have them joined together by hooks and latches, to serve as a stable 60" by 72" space.

We also added shelves to the bottom of the moveable tables to store customers' pending orders. And we used donated, "icky" moulding for rails to keep the customers' artwork in place!

All is GOOD!

Next, we're in process buiding a 4 foot by 5 foot plywood topped table, also from material left behind in our space. We will also build a shelf underneath it for storage, but this table will be used to house our new dry mount press. Which we should see delivered in the next couple of weeks! It will also have castors under it, though the bigger ones. Also locking, so we can stablize the table when we need to.

Wendy

The Art Corner

231 Washington Street

Salem, MA 01970

978-745-9524

artcornersalem@verizon.net

Where will we be in a year?

Hi!

We looked at a space closer to downtown today. It is entirely UNUSEABLE for us and WAY too expensive! These people who are snapping up all of downtown Salem have delusions of grandeur on an ENORMOUS scale! They are nice as people, but they don't "get it." I understand that we don't need yet another Spanish food market, or pizza shop or nail place downtown, but REALLY!

They should be falling all over themselves to accomodate us, as we are the type of shop that will bring only the BEST to downtown! In our new space we are actually becoming a real "gallery!" we've sold FIVE artworks in the last week and a half! In the old space, it'd be five pieces in five MONTHS! But people didn't come in there for artwork. They were interested in framing only. But the space could be set up to accomodate both, if planned out correctly. AND it'd be cheaper; AND it has PARKING; AND we can eventually BUY IT and make it even BETTER!

We had some ideas in mind but they are proving to be defeated by others' higher ideas. It would be nice to ignore civic trends and manufacture or BUY your own, wouldn't it?

Nuff said,
Wendy
The Once and Future Art Corner