While we would love to think of everything as we create our designs, the truth is that as we build, we sometimes dream up creative additions to our projects. Not adding these changes would make the project less than it could be - which wouldn’t do. The mouse on the exterior of the clock was in our initial design and was a given. But as we were welding up the pendulum on the Hickory Dickory Dock clock, we thought a second mouse riding it back and forth as it moves would be a clever addition - the punch line of our tale. The clock now sports its first coat of paint. Stay tuned to see it come together…