Whoop-de-doo!

 
Look what arrived yesterday!!!!

If someday down the road someone asked me to write a book about opening a new store from the ground up I know the first advice I'd give; get your logo designed first, then get your sign ordered about two minutes after you sign your lease. Forget about setting up bookkeeping (but not forever!), contacting vendors, and buying furniture, it will all just be sitting there looking pretty while people drive by you day after day and not know you are there and your hands will be tied in regards to doing any print jobs or advertising. In many ways I lost four weeks of potential business because I did things in the wrong order.

I have to give a quick shout out to my friend and fabulous designer, Chris Ford. I met Chris online about 5 years ago or so on a now defunct scrapbooking site dedicated to scrappers who didn't fit the stereotype of what the scrapbooking world expected. I've admired her mad digital design skills ever since. I was happy to finally get a chance to work with her on designing my logo (and soon a redesign of the website.) Sometimes working with a friend really does work out.