A New Year

Happy New Year!I don’t know about you, but my New Year has had a bit of a bumpy start. I start every new year with this grand feeling of a clean slate…a fresh start…amazing goals and aspirations…I feel like anything is possible. That feeling is...

Special Event

Featured Artist Event!Friday, January 4th6:00-8:00 pmMichelle E. Black will be celebrating the release of her magazine publication in the January issue of Somerset Studio Magazine! She will be at knot too shabby autographing her article and pieces of work being sold...

The Most Popular Posts of 2012

This has been an amazing year of growth! A year ago, I was struggling to find my niche. Which, ironically is not as simple as refinishing furniture and selling it! Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE to fix up old furniture and breathe new life into it. But, I am...

Christmas in the Retail World

Last year, I expected the “retail Christmas season” to be huge! We ramped up the store; stuffed it full of furniture (keeping in mind that last year we only had 1,000 square feet to stuff as opposed to our 1,800 square feet this year). We decorated like...

Moving On

It’s been over a week since I posted anything. I had a couple of blog posts sketched out for this week, but after the awful Connecticut news last week, my general feeling was “who cares about furniture?” Who cares about how to make a wax...

The Store

It’s been such a long time since I’ve taken complete store pictures, so I  thought I would share a snapshot of how things are looking these days. In total, there are ten new pieces that have shown up in the last 48 hours. We’ve been very...