fun customers this week....

its a parade out there some days.....yesterday i overheard 2 girls, teens, i think they were there with their mom, one said this place has weird stuff...and her sister said what do you expect its and antique store!!! i think they were looking at our wonderful rare mannequin head with real hair... or maybe it was the salt and peppers...

then 2 real loyal and valued and favorite customers were in and complained that the stuff they really liked has been pushed out of the foo foo room and now its in the bathroom..oh dear...i felt bad on that one.....we do still have a couple of shelves of the old foo foo in the new foo foo........ but its true, we have changed it over a lot..to a princess and diva room as well......

and Ruth is getting so many compliments for all the revamping we have done lately......I'm afraid one dear old customer even thought it wasn't us anymore...we laugh shes getting all the credit...well she is kind of a wonder..... we have job divisions ...the fluffers and the floppers.... the floppers did most of the big dramatic work but the fluffers get the credit..... ruth and i laid out a different floor plan and some big changes for them to do and while dh and i were in florida in january ...they made some major moves and fixed up the bathroom too.....they, jon and lisa, moved walls!!! i was thrilled with the results, they really did a great job...

we have seen lots of stores thru here this winter..
...and from them im hearing some real good vibes about the economy..... we have a lot of store customers, mostly for our big display pieces....i never know for sure how they find us but some are from customers generous referrals........ we sell to a lot of salons and a lot of boutiques and garden centers and some restaurants too....any cool independent kind of place that needs interesting pieces...


I LOVE MY KIDS.... you see Jon on here and at the store and my daughter is hard At work in Carmel indiana... http://www.bellachicinteriors.com/ ....they are both open to some wild ideas and outside the box thinking...which to me is usually a BIG PLUS....and they are both totally involved in the antique world.......
here's Jon's idea for me..... he and i would tour the underbelly of Detroit with Jon's buddy who knows all the good places to scrounge for junk....the good suppliers of the things coming out on the market from the horrible devastation of Detroit.....the guide goes into the deepest most deserted parts of detroit and buys old tin and architectural parts...i assume before the wrecking ball gets there... the friend tells tales of parts of detroit where whole blocks have burned down and places with no fire or police protection..... Jon wants us to take a big shopping trip up there with the box truck , him and a bunch of cash....jon brings this up everytime i gripe because we dont have enough smalls.....
just look at this ...its so sad... http://www.evasion.cc/blog/comments/ruins-of-detroit-photography/

aint gonna happen... im no city girl..... i get uneasy in kokomo...