Melissa Winton, owner of the Crafted wood craft studio, announced the closing of her business Dec. 1 after four and a half years of offering hobby classes to the Frisco community. She wrote in a Facebook post that her “once thriving business [was] decimated by a relentless virus and broken economy."
Winton used to offer craft and painting workshops, particularly for birthday parties and team building activities for larger groups and companies.
Prior to the pandemic, Winton said, business was going well.
“We were doing great leading up to this year, having just had our highest grossing year in 2019 and very optimistic for 2020,” Winton wrote in a Facebook message. “[However] once the shutdown occurred in mid-March, I had lost 75% of my business, and since I was not an ‘essential’ business, I was forced to close for the entirety of the shutdown.”
