I lucked out, however, with good college roommates who included me in their family events their friends also became my friends. I'm an introvert in a world that favors extroverts. My elementary teachers had consistently noted I "showed initiative" but didn't "play well with others." on Sunday.After my mother died, in the winter of my senior year in college, I discovered report cards she'd squirreled away. Regular hours will begin the following week: closed on Monday and Tuesday open 10 a.m. “We are slowly reclaiming the house,” Morris said.Īrtful Attic will host a grand opening from 10 a.m. “I kinda decided that was where I needed to go and didn’t want to sit in a cube anymore.”įor a while, that meant their Washougal home doubled as their workshop. I needed to see the people that benefit from the work that I do,” she said. “I got to a point where I needed to interact with people. She was working an office job earlier this year, and finally realized she was ready to embrace her passion as her work. It turned into something that we both love, and that we love to do together.”Īlthough Morris’ artistic endeavours are just beginning, this has been in the cards for Lander for a long time. I didn’t know I had this side of me, and she brought it out. It was something that I didn’t know was missing until I realized what I was doing,” Morris said. Five months later, he said he is as excited about Artful Attic as Lander is. Encouraged to experiment with his artistic side, Morris began playing with art materials in May. Morris, a 23-year veteran of the United States Air Force, is Lander’s case study on the subject.
“That’s kind of the mission of the shop - to bring out everybody’s artistic side, whether it’s flower arranging or drawing or painting or simply building racks out of copper pipe. “We really believe that everyone is artistic, and not everybody realizes that because they just haven’t found their medium yet,” Lander said. It is this openness regarding art mediums that sparked the whole idea for Artful Attic. “If you walk in with your cell phone case and say, ‘Hey, I really want a rooster on my cell phone case,’ we can do that,” Lander said, laughing. They’d like to display classic boutique fare - lotions, soaps, candles - but are open to all forms of work, and all requests. They are ready to engrave glasses for weddings or put a family photo on a coaster. Although they’re focusing on small-batch work now, the options are otherwise limitless. The shop owners point out that when they say “art” they mean all art. “You’re part of something bigger than yourself, which is the art community.” “The art is something that’s bigger than just you,” Morris said. “As cheesy as it sounds, I firmly believe that art is healing for people, and the world needs a lot of healing right now,” she said. Lander said they also hope to offer art classes in 2019. That’s exactly the response the Artful Attic owners hoped for: the shop will serve as a place for custom work from Lander and Morris, but also as a podium for local artists to display and sell their creations. Nobody wants to deal with the hassle of selling on Etsy and Ebay and whatnot,” Lander added.
“People are coming in because they’re just craving a place. “As we’ve been here, we’ve had people literally walk in the door and say, ‘Hey, I’m an artist, can I have my stuff here?'” Morris said. The shop will open with regular business hours the week following the grand opening, but that hasn’t stopped folks from coming in early. 21, at the store, a 1,500-square-foot space located at 217 N.E. The boutique will host a grand opening Saturday, Oct. “This has been my entire life since May,” said Lander. The opening of Artful Attic Boutique, of which Lander and Morris are co-owners, has been taking up all of their time lately. The real wedding has been pushed back a year. It feels like we just married into a big family that’s been waiting for us,” Lander, a Southwest Washington native, said. Instead, they’re wedding themselves to the downtown Camas business community. Lori Lander and Tyson Morris were supposed to marry each other next week.
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