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Linco's Pottery Nook to close
Owner wants to pursue her own creative endeavours

Guy Quenneville
Northern News Services
Published Thursday, December 17, 2009

SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - The owner of Linco's Pottery Nook is closing her store in order to pursue her creative impulses.

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Linco Mulders, owner of Linco's Pottery Nook, will close her store in order to devote more time to her artistic pursuits, such as painting. But she will open a temporary store during future Christmas seasons to supply her holiday customers, she said. - Guy Quenneville/NNSL photo

Linco Mulders, who moved her business to Franklin Avenue from 51 Street last year, will close up shop after a recent brush with painting reawakened her desire to create original works, much as she did in previous incarnations of her store, where she created pottery items that customers later decorated themselves.

“The move has been a good move,” said Mulders. “It's a great location. The space suits the store. The traffic has been good. Way more tourists. But I was starting to hear from lots of people, 'We wish the store was more like it used to be.'” They weren't alone.

“The more I heard from customers that they missed the hand-made part and my own work, I just started to think, 'It's true,'” said Mulders. “It's changed so much from the beginning – from being artsy and creative to pretty much everything being brought in. And I've got zero time to do my own art.”

Oddly enough, it wasn't a return to pottery that got Mulders thinking – it was painting, something she had only flirted with a couple years ago.

“This fall, I picked up some canvasses and I started painting and I went crazy. I loved it. When there were no customers, I ran next door and painted. If somebody came in, I ran back. It made me realize I wanted to be creative again.”

Customers who rely on the store for their Christmas shopping can breathe a collective sigh of relief.

Mulders' long-term plan is to paint and lay low for the first nine months of the year, then open a Christmas store in October, November and December. She may even open it in the very location she currently plans to vacate.

“If this location is available then yes. (If not), I'll just see what's out there in the fall and pick a place.”

Customers have met the news with a mix of disappointment and happiness for Mulders.

Asked if she'd been informed of Mulders' plans, regular customer Bridget Storrie quipped, “She has, the traitor!”

“(I was) disappointed that she was going to be closing the store,” she continued. “I enjoy just poking around at Linco's.

It always has fun things in here. In fact, I've managed to find pudding basins, which I've been told I would never find in Yellowknife.

“But I wish her all the world. She's got some exciting plans.”

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