Pretty Practicals and TV
Well this week's little bit of excitment is that some of our items are due to be featured on ITV's 60 Minute Make0ver programme this week. We are told that it is likely to be Wednesday's programme, although as I am not privvy to the television scheduling I cannot be sure of this. Anyway, one of our bamboo ladders may well make an appearance on Wednesday at 2pm. At their request, we have sent quite a few items to ITV for this series of programmes, so over the next few months our 23 inch French style clock (in a kitchen), a selection of duck egg blue accessories (in a shabby chic bedroom) and the large heart shaped Venentian mirror will all make an appearance.
Double shifts at work are already starting to make a mark on our energy levels. Heading towards bed before midnight is almost unheard of in our household normally, but we are finding ourselves grativating bedwards earlier and earlier this week ~ still that will do us no harm at all and help us to tackle each day with renewed vigour.
We had another constructive day yesterday, promising ourselves that we would only do a couple of hours of sorting and preparing orders to be sent today, we arrived at the unit(s) at 10 am and left by 4 pm. We spent much of the day checking our most recently deliveries. When items arrived from our suppliers we carefully check each and every item for flaws, returning any that do not meet our standards, so that we know the items we are sending out are perfect, just as they should be. Whilst this can be a tiresome task ~ not boring, but physically exhausting ~ it always feels a great acheivement when we have finished. It also gives me a chance to see any new stock that we have ordered and take photographs so that I can add the items to the website.
Most of the pictures on the website (although not all of them) are pictures that I have taken rather than ones offered by our suppliers. The Venetian bedroom suite in this picture (above) is one from our suppliers and I can hardly wait to have the set on display in our shop, so that I can take a picture of my own to use on the website.
The wood and plasterboard are due to arrive today, so that a partition wall can be built in the new unit, this will separate the shop area from storage/packing/deliveries. The shop looks like it will be pretty big or at least much larger than I had originally imagined, which is great news for me as it means that I will have the opportunity to make some really nice displays and give visitors more room to manoeuvre between tables, dressers, chairs and shelves.
Well it's nearly time to go back to work. It is so wonderful to have a job that I am excited about going to! Chat soon, Liz
Double shifts at work are already starting to make a mark on our energy levels. Heading towards bed before midnight is almost unheard of in our household normally, but we are finding ourselves grativating bedwards earlier and earlier this week ~ still that will do us no harm at all and help us to tackle each day with renewed vigour.
We had another constructive day yesterday, promising ourselves that we would only do a couple of hours of sorting and preparing orders to be sent today, we arrived at the unit(s) at 10 am and left by 4 pm. We spent much of the day checking our most recently deliveries. When items arrived from our suppliers we carefully check each and every item for flaws, returning any that do not meet our standards, so that we know the items we are sending out are perfect, just as they should be. Whilst this can be a tiresome task ~ not boring, but physically exhausting ~ it always feels a great acheivement when we have finished. It also gives me a chance to see any new stock that we have ordered and take photographs so that I can add the items to the website.
Most of the pictures on the website (although not all of them) are pictures that I have taken rather than ones offered by our suppliers. The Venetian bedroom suite in this picture (above) is one from our suppliers and I can hardly wait to have the set on display in our shop, so that I can take a picture of my own to use on the website.
The wood and plasterboard are due to arrive today, so that a partition wall can be built in the new unit, this will separate the shop area from storage/packing/deliveries. The shop looks like it will be pretty big or at least much larger than I had originally imagined, which is great news for me as it means that I will have the opportunity to make some really nice displays and give visitors more room to manoeuvre between tables, dressers, chairs and shelves.
Well it's nearly time to go back to work. It is so wonderful to have a job that I am excited about going to! Chat soon, Liz
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