Well wednesday was DUD in the shop-no sales but i talked to another store owner in the area and her business was dead too-its been so nice outside lately i think the few people who don't have to work are trying to get yard work done. Hopefully today will be better. I have a raging case of PMS on top of this which means poor mark has had to put up ( Read more... )

as promised-photos of the store- it still looks kinda empty in the photos-and the walls really look bare-there just isn't enough time in the day to make enough stuff to them up. i suppose over time it will evolve into one of those places with things everywhere.
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Well the Grand Opening went well!! I had a steady stream of people all day long-not so many that it was overwhelming but enough to keep me busy.Sales were good-those Twinkling H2O paints sold like CRAZY-I had a "play area" set up in the classroom so people could try them ( Read more... )

Sheesh-the past few days have just been unreal-we got 3 FEET of snow Sunday and lost power for 20 hours. Everything in the fridge and freezer had to be tossed(or cooked-like i have time to cook a freaking turkey and 3 chickens right now!!)-it took Mark 4 hours to snowblow a path to get the van out of the driveway Monday-he missed work.Yesterday it ( Read more... )

Oh man where is the time going?? Two and a half weeks until my opening and my shelving isn't even here yet! I have piles of stamps everywhere and 10 orders still out in the universe.Our water line is still frozen and our driveway is a pit of mud! We have to wait until after April 1st to get any gravel-the companies don't open until then.In the ( Read more... )

First of all I got not one,not two but EIGHT packages from UPS yesterday!The Bazzill cardstock arrived along with several stamp orders! YIPPEE ( Read more... )

My Markie brought home the water cooler thingie we saw the other day! I guess he won some money at Poker the other night and he spent it all on ME!! This water thing is so cool-I can have COLD filtered water or HOT filtered water any time i want in the store-I can have a cup of tea in the afternoon or offer a cup to a customer if they seem in need ( Read more... )

EWW- I have to go do grown up business stuff today-open a business bank account,open a propay account for credit cards, find business insurance...yuck yuck yuck! i just hate doing these types of things-I need a business partner who will deal with this stuff ( Read more... )

Well i finally finished that harlequin stencilled wall-it had to be done in stages to keep from smearing paint under the stencil. Looks very CHEERFUL huh?


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Ahhh monday-the bliss of being home alone again. We had 8 teen girls here yesterday working on a school project-they had to video tape themselves acting out an interview with famous women of the French revolution-OMG ,it was so funny! They dressed up and did their hair and makeup...they did like a milion takes because they were just laughing so ( Read more... )