Hampden craft shop and art gallery Mud and Metal is shutting down next weekend after 23 years of doing business in Hampden.
Owner Carol Breining confirmed her shop is closing in a message; the store has an ongoing closing sale this weekend and next, according to a Facebook event.
“The shop is closing and I am selling the building,” she wrote.
Since it opened on W. 36th Street—a.k.a. The Avenue—in 1995, Mud and Metal has offered a wide array of gifts, home furnishings and one-of-a-kind crafts for sale, from animal-themed garden art and kitchenware to handmade jewelry, wall decor and an array of ornaments and furnishings. Many of the pieces are made with recycled materials by artists from the area and around the county; as a a 2014 profile from The Sun put it, Breining ”specializes in an inanimate form of reincarnation.”
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