It was a December to remember. The tea garden and Boiler Room shows were a success. The tea garden was especially cool — nearly half the pieces on display sold! The staff couldn’t have been nicer and presented Boxy Mouse a commemorative cupcake when the remaining art was removed (it was eaten in short order, and delicious). Hundreds of buttons were dispensed from the gumball machine, and it will remain there on a permanent basis.
So, what’s going on right now? Well, to start with, a large collection of paintings are hanging in Sebastian Joe’s Ice Cream on Franklin Ave in Uptown. Probably most noteworthy is the new and bigger Hive piece.
And there’s a ton of other Boxy Mouse canvases too.
It was hard to pry Boxy Mouse away from the ice cream case.
The gumball machine locations in January:
#1 Taraccino Coffee
#2 tea garden
#3 Sebastian Joe’s
With the surprising amount of December sales comes the ability do do some fun things. The new and improved online store will start adding things (hopefully one item per week) starting sometime in January. T-shirts, Coffee mugs, “Art for Mice” prints, new button packs and field bags are some of the things you will see in the store this year. Also, most of the new shirts will be printed on American Apparel — the consistent quality and printability are undeniable, and the higher price will be worth it.
Also, a new button design happened:
And more colors for Boxy Jay…
Alas, Manufactory is no more — it closed permanently at the end of December. Drat. It was a great first retail experience, and new sites are currently being evaluated.