Wednesday, February 23, 2011

my space at the antique mall...

I have my cabinet in Rebecca's booth...
and this was taken a year ago when I first moved in...
a few odds and ends...
and Rebecca hauls it all in there and sets it out...
this was last summer...
after I started doing the hang tags and framed collages...
she has moved her booth 3 times now in the last year...
but she really needs all of her space...
she has so much to sell!
so we are waiting on the antique mall to find a place to stick my cabinet is a space all by itself...
this is a really cool cabinet...
bought it off of another dealer when the mall we were in closed out of no where on us and gave us a week to get out...
she didn't have room to store it and didn't have another booth lined up yet...
so I bought it thinking even if I couldn't do a full size booth...
maybe I could do this...
it sat in my living room for 8 years...
which I loved...
but when Rebecca and I decided to share her booth...
I had the guys take my cabinet in...
it was used in a garage with all the oil cans and stuff stored on the shelves and looked icky...
so I turned in upside down...
walla...
clean shelves without painting!
a lot of the stuff in the photos have sold...
but what's left, when I get moved...
will all come home and only new stuff is going in!

some freaky orange lightening going on here...

then for Thursday...
we have a winter storm warning...
5-7 inches of snow coming this way...
48 high tomorrow before the temp starts dropping...
and the snow starts falling...
again...
Calgon,
take me away...

waiting for more lace to come...

and working on the packaging...
setting prices...
each lace is priced differently...
so I got that figured out...
check out the vintage rose button in the center...
had to raise some prices for things going into Copper Eagle...
when I ran the antique mall...
customary dealer discounts were...
10% over $10 items...
anything $9.99 wasn't even considered...
not this mall...
they give a 10% discount on everything...
so that means the things I could offer anyone at a certain price under $10...
has to go up to cover the dealer discounts they are handing out...
Rebecca is going to be picking me up some more photo albums...
need to get some new designs in there too...
and I need some to post on other blog to sell...
she's supposed to get me some more hanging tags so I get some done up to sell on the blog, too...
the vintage thingies that are getting pulled out of the booth with be going on the sale blog...
want that up and running by March 1st...
and then...
depending on the response and sales...
I will know which direction to go from there...
well, it's either get up and do something time...
or nap time...
guess which way I'm leaning on that!

Beyond the Garden Gate...the world still sleeps...

tis such a dreary day out...
the sun is hidden from view...
all is asleep on the prairie...
and the beds still need their blankets of leaves...
but soon, we can peel them back to get a peek of the new green...
that will replace last years once vibrant blooms...
which can only be awakened by the sun...
rebirth...
how many springs have you been blessed with?