08.04.06

Someone tell Carrie it’s August…

Posted in Fun Stuff, Main, business-a-go-go, sidenotes at 2:24 pm by carrie

Okay… so… we have about 1/2 of our Halloween inventory here and it’s priced and ready to go out but I’m still waiting… on you guessed it, Bethany Lowe and some other fun things but there are things to settle with that company and blah blah blah…. long story short, I’m behind in paperwork, my communications and my merchandising. Bad me.

In order to make myself accountable for my lack of motivation, desire to procrastinate and website-distraction… I’m posting pics here of the shop so I can MAKE myself do something… we look like a warehouse and not a browsing mecca. Although, this summer… just thinking about it nauseates me. S-L-O-W. Why should I put out the blinky pumpkins and spend hours setting up every little detail only to amuse our umpteen-hundred vendors selling paring knives, fake aquariums, water coolers, baseball tickets and oh, don’t forget the charities like “people helping children in need oversees“. I’m sure they are are overseas, just not overseen and I’m sure any donations will go directly to the children. Argh. In a nutshell… our customers are out doing fun summery things… not truly planning out their Halloween decor scheme. Not right now, at least.

Okay… so here it is… not very pretty and why is it so dark in here? This is just one side. This is where all the Halloween stuff is going to go. But look at it in this status… unpacked with nowhere to go. My drawing below gives an idea of what the window will look like but what do I do with this wall?!? Notice, if you have good eyes, the wallpaper I was speaking of 2 blogs down rolled out a bit on top of the mantle to the left of the mirror. Okay… in their picture, the pattern looks a LOT smaller, unless that is a behemoth chair and end table??
See what I’m talking about?? Or maybe I’m not seeing it right. When you see my blurry pic on the right, do they look like they are the same size??	Here it is closer. Wow, what a mess.
Just for some added embarrasment, here is the hallway leading to our itty-bitty storage “facility” (ha!). I had to pull everything out to get to our black halloween trees… isn’t this attractive?!? And today I noticed our baseboard on the right had moved and is like… 1/2″ too short… how did THAT happen? Has anyone heard of spontaneous wood baseboard shrinkage?

So, here is my sketch of my intentions… again… I have intentions ;)

Let me explain…

Okay, so… I have a ton of black tulle that I’m going to drape accross the whole window and the tiebacks are really cool Edward Gorey inspired skeleton cherubs. Creepy and cute, all at the same time… joy! I made them to look like they are flying and holding back the fabric, like they are presenting the scene.

Starting on the left, a vanity that looks like a desk when closed, but the middle opens up to a mirror. Currently it’s late 1960’s brown with matching hardware. I plan to paint it black and put white glass knobs on it. OOOH! I have those chairs from eons ago that I could put with! White with black and white cushion! yay! Okay… so, this will be the Witch vanity. Bottles of potion (this is where it gets ambitious… anyone in a decoupaging-sort of mood?!?), baubles hanging from the chandelier above… etc and so on.

The middle table is currently white… I’m debating bringing in the dark wood buffet to fit the mood. Here, I will display all the Nicol Sayre goodies… Behind these goodies and hanging in the window, 4 paintings done on plexiglass so you can see thru them. Ya, sure, I’ll just whip that out in an hour. Also, this is where I might hang all the cool Halloween chinese lanterns we got.

The far right… well…. I need to find a desk I can paint black. I don’t currently have one so I must get one! We have an old typewriter, I’m thinking a story written by a “ghost writer” started in the typewriter. And here I will drape cobwebs from the chandelier onto the desk covered in fun paper products… hear that Babette?!! We need fun black and white notecards and stationery! ;)

So, that’s the window… still have the other 1200 square feet to do. Really, I just want to sit here and sip my latte.

In website news… it’s up but not quite done. Three days in a row staying up until 5am is starting to catch up with my and my once passionate desire to finish is overcome with sleepy-time thoughts… pillows and fuzzy blankets. It’s… argh… August… I wanted it done in July. But here we are. Oh, and I should check to see that the $7.00 order I put in yesterday hit my account… I’d hate to find out my new snazzy online merchant account is hooked up to a tattoo parlor in Yonkers… “Hey, Thor… there’s a credit on our statement… says we sold a cupcake necklace… when did we get cupcake necklaces?” Somehow, someway, I’ve come up with a scary scandinavian viking name for a tatoo guy in Yonkers.

And I’m still working on that car wash drawing…

And I need to thank Tracey at “Notes from a Cottage Industry” for the motivation today. I was browsing her blog and a few pictures really pushed me to get this diplay finished… so, many thanks to her for the inspiration! :) Her little shop (only 94 square feet… how cute is that?!?) is only open on Saturdays… hmmmm… don’t give me any ideas!

Sidenote… someone just came in… looking completely flustered… went directly to the other side of the shop then ran out… without saying anything… any conclusions? Perhaps we were mistaken for another business, she saw something offensive… our banana split dishes are a little offensive, but I wouldn’t expect running.

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