Our Staff

It was at this time that Dave was starting his teaching career and Mom
asked him if he would learn the picture framing trade. Dave worked as
an apprentice for no pay from Sherwood McCall who was the framer
for Houston Art and Frame. Sherwood was a fabulous teacher who
knew and still is a master of the art of picture framing.

Dave started framing pictures for Wishing Well and some other craft
businesses and then left the teaching career to open Woodland Art and
Frame in 1981. As a matter of fact, in three weeks, Dave left teaching
and started the business, Kristen was born, and Cindy quit her job
because she could not bear to be away from Kristen. There were very
few customers at this brand new shop which is only four doors down
from the present location of Woodland Art and Frame.

Dave drove substitute bus routes for Conroe ISD with his Masters
degree in teaching and after awhile, the business grew. Cindy soon
began bringing baby Kristen and later baby Sarah to the shop with her
and learned the trade rapidly.

In 1986, Dave returned to band directing and has been in education to
this day. Cindy took over the operation of Woodland Art & Frame and
has run the business for nearly 30 years. Janine was hired in 1981 and
although she left for a few years has been with us ever since.

Some incredible bonds have been made between our loyal customers
and Cindy and Janine. Some of these customers have been with us for
decades. The family now has hundreds and hundreds of members. Hugs
are even abundant with life stories frequently exchanged between
customer and framer and the rest is history!

In the 1970's, Dave's mom owned
an arts and crafts shop on FM
1960 named "Wishing Well
Crafts." She taught many classes
in all sorts of art and there was a
demand for custom framing. She
farmed out the framing to an
independent who framed from his
home. Unfortunately, she almost
got sued when her framer trimmed
a valuable (at the time) print of
Dalhart Windberg's.