How we almost lost our conscience

We kind of missed the blog boat this week, since we are all knee deep in fancy frames, getting ready for our HUGE sale event on Saturday. I’m not sure if this is the reason Meg’s back went out on her earlier in the week, but this has been quite an undertaking, lugging over 70 frames up our rickety stairs from our basement to our back rooms. Our own backs are definitely feeling the pain.! Oh, the glamour of owning an art gallery ...

Our main purpose for doing the frame sale is to clear out the space in our prime basement location, or, as Sam calls it, “Huff Harrington South.” (She is also the one who renamed our lovely WC the “Lou-vre” (which is so clever and appropriate, given all the paintings we have hanging there) and she is the one who wants us to buy a Huff Harrington van and call it, “Van Go”! But enough about our clever Sam …). We're very excited to have more space in our basement for paintings and just as thrilled to pass on our collection of gorgeous frames.

We had a very successful frame sale two years ago from which we donated the proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk for a Cure, a cause that is near and dear to our hearts. The Walk for a Cure was held a few weeks after our frame sale, and we were excited to contribute to our own school team, which raised more money than any other school team in Atlanta. But this being 2010, with a rougher, shakier economy and having our own modest goals of recouping at least some of our framing costs, we decided early on that we would be the only beneficiaries of the frame sale. After all, 2010 is not 2008 ... unfortunately.

Linda, Sarah and Ann, preparing for the frame sale (Meg hobbled over to the back doctor)

And then we looked at what we did two years ago. We found the cute pictures of our young friends who helped us with the sale. We found the page on our website dedicated to the Walk for a Cure and felt proud that we had participated in something that is so important to us. We remembered how happy our team was when they exceeded their fundraising goals. And we thought about how when times are good, it’s easy to give back. And when times are tougher, we naturally resist it.

So at the last minute, our consciences caught up with us and we’ve changed the nature of our frame sale. We decided that we all liked it better when it could benefit a cause, like the JDRF 2010 Walk for a Cure. We may not be pitching in at the top level this year, but we’ll do our little bit. And we’ll reuse the cute pictures of our young friends, now two years older, and remember the smiles on their beautiful faces when we support them in their lifelong cause.

After all, who can resist this?

If you’d like to join the 2010 JDRF walk for the Cure, please click here. And if you’d like to join the Huff Harrington frame sale, come see us on tomorrow !

Tata,

HH

PS: On a different note, we’d like to make a plug for our friends at the Swan Coach House Gallery and congratulate our artist, Peggy Everett, for the wonderful critical acclaim she received. Check it out!