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We have busted our asses since buying the house with a set of goals that we wanted completed by winter. We would like to thank my Mom, my Stepfather Henry, and my Dad Bob for helping us accomplish everything, it would have been a lot harder to do without their help. New kitchen windows, glass block windows in the basement, roof replacement on the room off the kitchen, and redoing the dining room including a complete tear out off the bay window with new drywall. We are exhausted, but one half of the first floor is totally complete. Here are some pictures of the dining room:
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| Here is a really old picture from when we tore out the kitchen. You can see what the dining room used to look like. |
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| Here is the finished product. |
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| Nicole found an old chandelier at the thrift store that she fixed up with some paint and some TLC. |
Now its time to take a break, at least until the new year!
Christmas orders are starting to come in. Don’t forget to get your orders in as soon as possible to ensure that it arrives on time! This is my favorite time of year, not just because we get busy, but because I love the holidays, cookies, snow, tacky lights, gifts, and booze. I also love special Holiday clothes….like this:
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| I bought this. It hasn’t arrived yet….but I keep checking! |
I posted the new Poe shirt for ladies in all three shops. This shirt caught the attention of many people at the Rochester show and overall, got a good response.
Also this weekend, Nicole and I will attempt to prime the dining room once I finish sanding it tomorrow. I’ll be so relieved when its done.
Nicole and I started dieting. I hate dieting. I love food, but I’m about 10 pounds overweight. We decided to try SparkPeople.com. It’s a free dieting site that has pretty cool Apps for recipes and calorie counting. I’m on day 2 and it hasn’t really been all that bad. I went running yesterday which was sort of brutal but I made it out alive. If I can get back down below 200 I’ll be happy and celebrate with huge bag of candy.
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| This will be my reward if I reach under 200 pounds. The prize at the end of the rainbow. |
This weekend was the Mayday Underground Arts and Crafts Show. We did this show last year and this year it was just as good, if not better! I love getting to see the faces of people that look at our stuff. Being an online business, you never get that experience. It’s also a great way to test new items to see if they are worth carrying. The moss green woman’s Poe shirt caught a lot of eyes and eventually sold. I will have a picture of it this week because I ordered more and decided to carry it. I took the Poe design that I already had and added a twist. I love the way it turned out.
During the show Nicole and I met another vendor at the show who was interested in how I screened the onesies. He was a screen printer also but was at the show selling handmade fairy doors. They were these amazing handmade doors that go in garden’s, etc. Very cool and very original. We eventually started talking about our experiences as screen printers and I mentioned how I was in need of a flash dryer. For those of you that don’t know what this is, it’s an expensive piece of equipment that makes drying/curing inks on shirts a breeze. He mentioned he had one that he had fixed up, that he wasn’t using. He bought it broken from a guy for dirt cheap and fixed it, but has since gotten a new one. I could have sold nothing at this show and could have been happy. We got a flash dryer from this guy and it works great! Christmas will be so much easier to deal with this year. Its been almost two days and I’m STILL totally excited about acquiring this tool! Thanks Again Chris!
The Mayday Underground show is tomorrow, all day. I’ve decided to bring some trial products to the show to see what reactions they get before I sell them in my shops.
This Saturday is the Mayday Underground show in Rochester. We love doing this show and highly recommend that if you are in the Rochester area, come on down! Even if our shirts are just too cool for you, there are really great vendors at this show offering really great options for unique holiday gifts.
Last night was the first Halloween for us living in the new house. We had no idea what to expect, in fact if I had to guess, I would have guessed that there were going to be few trick or treaters. We had gotten three bags of candy and 45 minutes later I was out the door scurrying to get more. We couldn’t believe it. The first Wilson Farms was out of candy, so I tried another that was about a mile away. Luckily there were bags of candy left at inflated prices. I figured three more bags should work and they did. Barely.
I realized one thing after this experience. I pretty much hate Halloween. The occasional little kid walking with their parents in a ridiculous costume sometimes made it all seem worth it, but not quite. I wonder if this is what it was like when I was little? Then I wonder how annoying it was for people when I reached that awkward age and was still trick or treating. I know that I was annoyed when the occasional 15 year old, 18 year old, and 40 year old (?) stopped by for a treat. Did I miss something? That’s right, a 40 year old women (she could have been mid 30’s) actually came to our house with her plastic bag asking for candy…and you have no choice really. I mean, you do…and then you risk becoming a target for later issues. The lack of costumes was also pretty amazing. It’s not worth it. Halloween is pretty terrible.
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| Ric hates Halloween and horror movies. Ever since he watched “The Ring” he fears VCR tapes. |
Happy Halloween! I’m pretty excited as this is the first Halloween in our new house. We have no idea what to expect for Trick or Treaters in terms of how many we will see. This is a tough Holiday for me because I love candy, and I have been candy-free for over a month now. This year we tried to go the route of picking up candy that I don’t actually like. We picked up “Dots”, “Toostie Pops”, and “Marvel Comic Dips” (basically fun-dip). There will still be and urge for me to eat these things, I’m not going to lie. But I’ll stay strong. Its sort of like the equivalent of a smoker that has run out of cigarettes, and has no money to buy them, so he/she picks through the ash tray for some gross nub to suck out whatever nicotine that remains…but not as gross.
Over the weekend we managed to get our sun room (now declared a reading room) about 90% finished. I totally love the room so far. Its relaxing. Last night I spent the last two hours hanging out in there under a blanket, with a glass of wine, reading. I know that for some reason that description makes me sound like a woman, but try to look at it like I’m a man that enjoys wine, that was reading and was cold. The room is great. We have some things left that we still want to do in there like building a bookshelf, and some decorating tasks, but its pretty close to being finished.
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| We moved the rug from the guest room into this room. We now need a new rug for the guest room. |
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| This table needs trinkets. |
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| We found this 50’s couch a the thrift store for 50 bucks. It was in amazing shape. |
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| Nicole is going to sand down the wood and re-stain it darker. This couch is awesome. |
Tomorrow I will have a full report on the outcome of the Trick or Treaters!
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