The owners of Miss Cayce’s Christmas Store in Midland were saddened over the COVID-19 quarantine, but found new ways to reach out to their client base as well as the community as a whole.
“Miss Cayce’s is all about helping people celebrate and decorate the seasons, the holidays, their front porches to welcome their family and friends,” Becky McCraney, co-owner of Miss Cayce’s, said in a video.
The store asked for nominations from the community to receive decorations that would encourage them in these challenging times.
One nominee was a woman dealing with a difficult cancer treatment regimen. The design team at Miss Cayce’s played off of the woman’s hashtag #Beelieveinthehealing to create yellow and black bee-inspired hanging decorations for her doors. They also helped to choose pillows and a local plant provider offered up some potted arrangements to brighten up the front porch.
“It allowed this family to go out on their front porch and be with people from a distance,” McCraney said. “To Cheer Crash them was just so enjoyable for all of our team to be a part of.”
Other nominations included MARC of Midland, which hass a residential program for adults who are disabled and therapy programs for children.
“Our mission is to empower these individuals to live normal lives,” Coleman Sneed, grant writer and development administrator with MARC said. “Our clients were forced to stay at home under quarantine and hadn’t seen their families in a few months. We’re finding creative ways to keep everybody occupied everyday.”
McCraney said that she and her team were delighted to get to work with the MARC organization to decorate some homes for adults with special needs.
“To get to dress up their front doors and get to add cheer to their lives and everyone passing by was a great feeling,” McCraney said.
The decorations went a long way for residents who had been cooped up for months, Sneed said.
In order to keep the cheer going, Miss Cayce’s announced on its Facebook page the store is having another giveaway to a deserving family in the Midland area.
“The Round Top Collection has donated six sets of pot stakes so that you (…yes YOU!!!) can do a mini cheer crash for someone you know deserves it!" the post said.