Yesterday Andrea hopped up on a stool in the hall and took this photo of our sign in the hall. Everything looks so fresh and tidy. Just the way we like it.
But, the picture below is behind the check out desk, 4 days after I arrived home from my buying trip. Boxes, boxes everywhere. And who let that pony in? Still plenty to do!
And the trucking company guy stopped up to ask where to drop off a full PALLET of boxes from one of the wholesale vendors we use. I like it better when UPS or Fed Ex delivers right to my shop - this guy just left it downstairs at the opposite end of the building from the elevator. So I hauled it upstairs one box at a time. The storage room is already packed to the ceiling, so we needed to unpack and price most of them already cause there wasn't any place to put them otherwise. I just keep plugging away on sorting and pricing and getting the goods out...
One other thing that I did accomplish was to sort and price these little vintage wooden beads - actually I mostly played with them - making little button necklaces on old shoe laces - felt like I was a preschooler again. Also, strung a few of them on my favorite sterling necklace and decided they are kinda funky for grown-ups as well as kids. Would make cute earrings, too. We'll sell them 10 for $2.50. I have a bunch of the larger preschool beads, too.
Tonight Sylvia came and we priced musical instruments from a preschool rhythm band. My husband stopped by and had to try a few things out, too. Maracas, sand blocks, cymbals, rhythm sticks, flute-like instuments, bongos, flapper things and more from the auction sale last week (the one where I missed out on the flash cards...). Then we bagged up and priced lots of little plastic horses and cowboys and indians. Earlier I added things to the "junk drawer" in the Tiny Treasures cabinet and put out a bunch of old Pack-O-Fun craft magazines. We sorted a pile of "donate" kids books, cause they are too new to sell in the shop but came in the box with the good old ones I wanted. I was able to clear a few more boxes from behind my desk. Tomorrow, I'll go in and price some more. And when that's done...there's always the storage room and those tubs full of antique buttons to sort!
Warm regards!
Mary
... looking at that pony behind my desk reminded me of these pictures I took on my drive home last week. Who let the horses out???
The last I saw them, they were running wild in a cornfield between Chenoa and Fairbury, Illinois. A few miles on further down the road, this was grinning down at me:
I always like having a full tank of gas and somewhere to go. You never know what you'll see along the way. On my drive back to Michigan, I stopped in Watseka to discover that the little old antique shop here was selling off EVERYTHING and closing the next day. Since there was still room in my van, of course I needed to buy some more stuff
