Enjoy today..........

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

What's in Store for Christmas....

Two days after our Holiday Open House and I'm still recovering!!  We had a fantastic turnout and I need to thank you all for shopping at good goods and keeping it in the community we live in!!

You're going to see lots of pictures from around the shop and for once, I won't do much "talking".  I'm talked out.  Hey, it's the season of miracles.....

Oh what?! You're down here, now??  Sorry, I was napping.

Did you like the slide show and my rendition of Silent Night?

This gives you a pretty good idea of what's in the store although not the entire picture.  For that...well, you'll just have to come visit!!!

xxoo,

Cheri

A Teaser of Things to Come!

Our biggest and bestest event of the year is coming up this weekend.

We'll be closed Thursday, November 10 to get all ready.  The party will start Friday evening at 5:00pm and end Saturday at 5pm!!

Preparing for an open house  can be likened to organizing a closet (a big one), rearranging all your furnishings and hoping seven gifts you need by this weekend arrive from UPS.

Everything has been torn apart here. Cupboards, that held inventory, had to be emptied to be light enough to move to a new location. 

New deliveries waiting in the back room to be unpacked, had to wait even longer.  The furniture had to be in it's permanent place so there would be a place to hide everything until the proper moment!! And that had to happen to create room for delivery of two more pallets of product from Express Trucking.  Weeee!  Logistics!

Needless to say, there were piles everywhere...

But the hand truck and furniture "sliders" have been put away and the piles are getting smaller.  Boxes are making it into recycling and goodies are being tucked away in secret places.

A little of this...

..and that.

 

Some glitter and..

..sparkle....

..and cheer...

..and magic.

Ah, there's the light at the end of the tunnel!  Can you see it??!

Hope you come help us kick off the 2011 holiday season!

XXXOOO,

Cheri

Scary...........

Nothing about Halloween scares me as much as having to learn about all the new and soon-to-be-new high tech...everything out there.  In fact-- I have vivid, gorey nightmares about having to, gulp, replace my television.

This was modern when I was growing up, people!  A TV you could carry!!!

Between HDTV, ED, LCD, DLP, Plasma well, I'm lost.  Plasma has something to do with blood, doesn't it?????  Now I see why my dreams are gorey.  oh my.

Television everywhere.

And sharks everywhere, too, it seems.

A remote that will work on hand gestures.  I can only imagine the hand gestures I'd be using with this thing.

And, think about it...our favorite shows are about people digging through filthy barns....looking for old stuff.

I don't have a smartphone or iPhone or whatever they are called.  And I would NEVER put anything named  "Droid" in my pocket.

But what does the future hold?

Yep.  A phone.

Oh. No. Way.

Once they got the cord off, I was good.  And safe.  Any advances in technology should have had something to do with eating pounds of chocolate with no weight gain.

This intense fear all started when my sister sent me this video from Corning Glass.  It did not amaze me.  I did not marvel.  I went back to bed.  I don't want pictures enlarged on my glass kitchen table or all over my glass walls (hmmmm. Will we still have greasy fingers then??)  I want all that computer type stuff contained safely in a little box on my desk.

This is how I don't gain weight!  I'd never be able to work my stove.

(those sly devils, they have been working on that issue!)

It's a gas cooktop, you ninny.  Where have you been??

Don't even ask.........

Oh, please!!  This attached computer lets you choose water temperature, pressure, etc.  Have mercy.

Possible good idea.  A lawn mower curiously like the popular Roomba vacuum.  I would only hope it had an automatice cut off if one of the cats decided to sniff it..

And a waterless washing machine.  We'll be using UV light to clean the Nano titanium dioxide coated clothes we'll be wearing.....(Really.  It's true. I read it online.)

I remember my parents saying "I don't want to know how to use it" about modern inventions.  They stopped after they got a remote for the TV.  A console TV.

(google it if you're too young to remember those!!)

I truly have become my parents, then.  I am officially middle aged.  Progress and innovation is great.  It's neccessary.

I just don't want pictures floating around the air beside me.  I want to read books made of paper.  And, although I love email, once in a while I would love to get a hand written letter.  Scary, huh??

Signs of Fall, etc

Bittersweet wreaths, from our vendor in Pennsylvania, will be showing up this week at good goods.  I've been buying from Ellen for about ten years and am never disappointed by the quality of her work.  Nothing is better when decorating for Fall than natural elements and orange bittersweet announces the season's change beautifully.  Inside or out, it's a perfect choice even without added decoration. 

Then for Christmas, we'll be expecting the wild rosehips.  I love these guys.  They are great on a door instead of the expected evergreen but I especially adore then inside.  Several sizes of these coming in so keep an eye out!!

xxoo
Cheri

We're in the Spirits..............

Bootique was a smashing success and we want to thank the continuous stream of visitors that joined us last Saturday.  Everyone managed to get in the spirit....

....especially after snacking on "season appropriate" appetizers.

                         Even the guys managed to find something interesting............

The second round of Halloween started arriving on Monday.  It's priced & on the floor!

 Our Hot Swash velvet pumpkins have been flying out the door.  A new order was just placed and will be here in about a week.  These are great and you can display them through November!

 Marlis brought us this "new" upcycled chair upholstered in a beautiful linen.

You can see even more at my buddies' blog here.  Go check it out!



XXOO

Cheri