Saturday, January 19, 2008

Full color spread

Today was the day. The newspaper article about the shop ran on the front cover of the "Accent" section, the upper 2/3rds of the page, with another third (plus another color photo) on page 3. Good "advertising", but I really got my butt kicked. I did more in sales today than last week's total. I'm spending the rest of the night on my little heating pad, after I take a very hot, excessively long shower. My quilt class suffered benign neglect because of all the "press" today. I'm guessing it'll be more of the same tomorrow. Saturdays and Sundays used to be the "why am I even here?" days. We'll see if the newspaper article changes that. I'm a little afraid. Lil' fat girl about ran her ass off today. I'm wearing my Mary Janes and my super-loose jeans tomorrow. If it's slow, I can curl up on the sofa and pretend I'm in jammies. The heating pad is going with me. As are the frosted cookies (again, sorry Steph, you weight-losing machine!),and a bottle of Excedrin. And the Xanax, though I didn't need it today.
I loved meeting all the new customers who kept pouring into the shop. Crazy busy= fun. (It also equals sore backside, though, so I'm off to that hot shower.) Keep your crossables crossed that business continues to pick up. I'm all about that. And the man has spied a house in town, a easy walk from the shop, that we might go look at this week. Imagine that... forced exercise, and we could ditch our huge house payment and a truck. I might be all about that, too. Things to ponder... latah, knittas. C

8 comments:

Annalea said...

Hooray for the busy day, Camilla! I'm so glad the paper ran such a great piece on you. It would be great if the shop really got to be a happenin' place.

And a house in town . . . now that would be nice, to be just a walk from Clementine's.

Enjoy your shower, girl. You definitely deserve it. ;o)

Dragonfly7673 (Vicki) said...

Write-up in the paper = busy day = great news!! I'm so happy for you!

House in town sounds good too, lots of things to ponder for you guys!

knitter in the desert said...

Things to ponder indeed....

Glad the article got you lots of business!

RedRhonda said...

Congratulations! I can't wait to see the article. Talk to you soon...

Unknown said...

Woo Hoo! That's big exciting news. Did you get the email I sent with the links you requested?

Sorry to hear that you are tired at the end of a busy day, but glad to hear it. A new house? That would be great too! g

LotusKnits said...

That's funny, I was thinking about your store today! Congrats on all the traffic. That's excellent news. Hope it keeps up!

xoxo

Marigold said...

Yay for busy! Yep, I hope the busy-ness continues at the shop. Are you posting up the article in your shop?

Stephanie said...

yippee for lots of business and press!!! Is there anyplace online that we can read the article?? I'm so excited for you. Busy is good!!!