Happy Happy Shop Shop!

The last week has been so very busy, Dave and I have been working 10 hours a day at the shop to get it ready and then coming home and attending to all our emails etc.

Between BT and Tiscali, our internet access at work will not be connected until sometime next week. So to add to our already hectic schedule, I am now having to run back and forth to our home to collect orders, print out our delivery notes and answer emails. I am starting to wear a groove into the pavement with all this to-ing and fro-ing.

It has been freezing (literally) for a couple of days this week and whilst working in the old unit would have been almost impossible in such low temperatures, our new unit has a huge industrial size heater and it's toasty warm in there ~ yippee!

Preparations for the shop are coming along really nicely. Dave is being amazingly constructive and patient whilst I have been doing what I do best ~ changing my mind and rearranging things! Now is this just a girlie trait or do men do this too? Is it just that I have dreadful spatial awareness? I can visualise a finished room, I can take a piece of fabric and see how to cut it to cover a chair, I can 'feel' how the shop will be when it's completed, but can I work out how may dressers and shelving units will fit along the wall? No siree!

Poor old Dave has spent so may hours moving this dresser or that bench from 'just over here' to 'just over there' so I can see what it will look like and then not grumbled in the least when I have announced that it doesn't really work for me and can he move it back again please. My friend Trina has been over to help me a few times, we have been like a couple of wild banshees armed with pricing guns, popping sticky labels on everything in sight.

Actually it is starting to look wonderful and is very exciting to see all our plans coming to fruition. Our shop should be ready for visitors by the end of next week, so watch this space for our announcement (ooh, it's like having a new baby!).

Chat soon, Liz