Movin' and Shakin'

Things have been busy busy around here lately. We’re heading into fall, which means a busy store season with lots of restocking, SUPERCRAWL is just around the corner and we have big plans for that, and on top of all that, I just moved. Again.

The best part about my new place (well, that’s a lie, there are a million best parts about my new place) but one of the best parts about it is it has a beautiful finished attic that has been waiting patiently for someone to use it. As soon as I saw it, I knew it would be the perfect place to set up a home office, something I’ve always desperately needed but never had room for. This room will give me the space to keep all our White Elephant files and documents in one place. Hopefully this means I will be able to come up with a somewhat coherent filing and organization system that will keep me on track with all that pesky bookkeeping work.

I haven’t even started using the space yet, and already I’m dreaming about how to decorate it. For now, I started simple with one of my favourite Oh My Cavalier prints from the shop.

This beautiful desk and chair was already in the attic, on loan from a friend who needed someplace to store extra furniture. Aside from that, I haven’t really done anything else to the room yet except move our paperwork in. The windows are my absolute favourite part, and the maple tree view isn’t bad either. I moved in a plant that I’m determined to keep alive, and a little glass Bluebird that I’ve brought with me through many apartments because it reminds me of the one my mom always above our kitchen sink.

Of course, I brought an old love seat up there too, so that Pepper has somewhere to lie while I’m working away. She’s already taking advantage of this every chance she gets.

Back at the shop, things are busy and exciting. We have tons of new product coming in every day, and hardly any time to display it. We’ve been very slowly re-merchandising corner by corner, with the hope that everything will be done by Supercrawl.

We just got these beautiful wooden bracelets by Voz Clothing and Art last week, and already I’m struggling to decide which colours I should take home. A huge new shipment of We Dream In Colour came in a few weeks ago as well, always a store favourite.

I’m thrilled to say we now carry pottery by Bread and Butter Pottery, a Halifax-based artist we met at the Beehive Craft Fair. I can tell you right now that every day those Bacon and Eggs don’t come home with me is a miracle of self-restraint.

On Friday we received a HUGE shipment of Steel Magnolia pieces, and they are already going fast. We have a ton of pieces out in the shop right now, and more that are waiting to be displayed.

Finally, Hollie and I have been doing a lot of vintage shopping for White Elephant lately, and I may have scored by favourite piece ever. This giant model sailboat is a dream come true, and at this point, a labour of love. The sails had to come off to fit this thing in my car, and since then I’ve spent hours trying to get it all back together. I think I finally succeeded.

That’s just a little taste of what’s being going on around these parts. There are so many exciting things happening these days, I can hardly keep up.