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Canadian Jeweler Explores Creativity with CAD Experiments

He’s rewarded by customers with trays of cookies.

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11 months ago

January 12, 2020

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BRANDON MCMURRAY, WHO works with his family at Hunt House in Huntsville, Ontario, does all of the CAD work for the store. “All the older ladies love him,” says Cathy McMurray, his mom. “They come and sit in his office and also bring in either cookies for his dog or sweets for him. We get nothing. Yes, we are jealous!” Brandon concedes that “ladies do bring me trays of cookies, but I do share!”

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