Showing posts with label floor change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label floor change. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Still here!

Good grief! My last week has been a crazy one to say the least. After a quick long weekend to Charlotte to celebrate the first birthday of my granddaughter Fiona (and her father, Timm), an overnight trip to Charleston for a day of work at my favorite project of all times (!), a long 13 hour drive back home, a 12 hour day of work getting ready for the blowout sale at Black-eyed Susan, followed by three more 12 hour days of selling, recovering, selling, recovering, selling and finally re-merchandising the entire store.....well, I'd say that's been one crazy long week.



(How would you like to be the "guest of honor" helping me, enter stage right: Linda)? Other than freshly pressed 600 count sheets, there wasn't a whole lot of perks in this trip! But, thanks to my stylish and hard working friend and Chief Financial Officer, we survived and the store is now fully engulfed in the spirit of Fall.





  • Long trip.


  • BIG sale.


  • New windows.


  • New merchandise.


  • Tired crew.


  • Come see the magic.





  • Blogging catchup is next....

Friday, September 4, 2009

Ahhh! Fall.

Fall! After a long night (and into the wee hours of the morning), the store has been transformed into fall. As a one-man show, it's quite a task!

Too late for photos tonight, but I'll post some in the next day or so. There's lots of inspiring fall hydrangeas, pods and pumpkins. The beginning of Halloween has hit the floor-my favorite? Undoubtedly the metallic clip on crows wearing party hats!!

Yes, they're worth the trip.

Goodnight. My feet are tired.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

The Susan Rules; "Forget the Rules, Arouse the Senses"

Tonight's event was "the Susan Rules...Forget the Rules, Arouse the Senses!" We had a great turnout and alot of great interaction and comments in discussion form. The discussion with photo examples, was to inspire us to design with our own signature, inspired by others and outside sources. We talked about designing a little outside the box of the norm, and unexpected yet purposeful placement. We got a bit involved in talking about the obsessiveness of collecting and had one darling participant who's problem was not knowing what to collect! Oh, my, to have such a problem.
This is an example I embellished last night prior to leaving for home, adding layers to the existing art and finding homes for many of the accessories I brought back from the Designer House.
In the process of returning the furniture, lamps, and accessories to the retail store, one huge domino effect occur ed and resulted in an entire floor change (come in to see for yourself!), and my new summer themed windows. Sneelock usually photographs the windows for me, but just as I was leaving tonight I took a chance on getting something worthy to publish...until the real thing is done by him.
I learned recently that my windows are "famous" and a real draw! I'll take that.
Take a look for yourself, and you can always ask to see Fred's (oops, Sneelock's) in the next few weeks. It's darn hard to not get the glare, the traffic, and the stop light involved.
Orange a green, a great theme.


Dressing and changing the windows is a huge project to tackle in the late night hours, but all in all, totally rewarding! A trip to see them in person would be the real ticket.
I'll be waiting!