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Best Birthday Present

Today I got the best birthday present! The sign went up at the store! I love it and it looks amazing! Thanks Lisa!!!!!

Great Response

Wow, the response has been amazing to the news that I'm reopening! It really reaffirms my decision. It will be really different from Church Street, in many ways. The selection will be smaller simply because the store is smaller. But that's a good thing for me. It will be easier to manage. I'll still have a small selection of cards but it will be highly selective since the space is so limited, MikWright and Nobleworks and maybe one more line. This is a MikWright card. Inside it says: yes ma'am, how many frequent flyer miles would it take to send someone nonstop to hell?

Fancy Sign

I'll have a sign for the front of the shop. It will be similar in style to the other shops in that row. I think it will catch your attention.

NY Gift Fair August Edition

Yesterday I attended the NY Gift Fair with my buddy Monica. It was a beautiful day and I felt energetic and excited. We were less organized than usual but we managed to get through it and feel like we had a successful day. We laughed our asses off at Anne Taintor's booth, laughed them off all over again ordering MikWright notepads, and once again at Accoutrements where they had my favorite item of the entire show. The Assistant Manager Pennant is at the top of my list of must have items!

To Do List

I put this to do list in the window at the shop with a sock monkey hanging next to it and some tissue paper flowers along the bottom of the windows. I spent some time there getting ideas and I'm really excited. I was so happy that I got the same phone and fax numbers! No new numbers to memorize!

Hard Work

Wage was always my favorite Uglydoll. I think I related to his work ethics. I added Minimum Wage to the eBay store last night. I realized I only need 2 more orders with feedback to get a little yellow star next to the store name! I think that will help my search results too. I'm slowly getting started on making copabananas.com shopping-capable. I need to tweak a few things soon like the contact information. Once I build a template then it will go quickly. I'm going to attempt to shoot all my pictures to keep it unique. So much to do! Now I'm going to make like Wage and get busy.

Short and Sweet

Despite my best intentions my visit to the Gift Fair was limited at best. I was being so conservative that after I placed a few orders I started feeling like temptation was everywhere and I was best served leaving as quickly as possible. I visited everyone on my list and ordered the newest, coolest items. But as far as searching out new items I felt like I would be better off waiting until August and exploring then for the holiday season. For now I'll stick with what I know. I have my work cut out for me as far as building the website in order to actually put the stuff up for sale. That was always in my head as I was shopping- "I don't even have the website up yet!", not to mention all the work left to do today at the store in the form of moving and cleaning. It will all be done today, though, and tomorrow I will sleep late, maybe until 7!

NY Gift Fair

Today I'm finally going to the NY Gift Fair. It will be a really different experience this time. I think I will feel more relaxed than usual since the pressure is off as far as needing certain items like I usually do. I can explore more than I used to and my decisions will definitely be more thoughtful since I won't be ordering for the store, just the website, which won't have nearly as much inventory. I'm just as excited as ever, though. It's always a lot of fun.

Almost All Moved

It was a long day and a lot of hard work. The job of moving is almost done. Here are some cool pictures of the store with the slatwall down, the counter breaking up (sorry Jim), and some of everything moving out.