Wow, what a crazy week! Being a mother of five, I'm pretty used to craziness and I mean CRAZY! From taking our oldest driving for the first time last week to our daughter's constant begging to take them here and there, and how can I forget our 2 rambunctious toddlers running back and forth from the house to my workshop, with bare feet, which drives me crazy because you never know what's on my workshop floor! These are just a few crazies I deal with on a daily basis. Now, let's put running my business into the equation and things just went from crazy to completely insane, lol! Yes, it's alot of hard work, but if you know me at all, that's just how I've always rolled, busy, busy. Case in point, a couple of weeks ago, I ran to the storage facility near our house to see if I could rent a unit for all of the "treasures" I've been finding and stock piling for the store. After finishing the paper work, the owner and I small talked about what I was putting in the unit which led to what I do, which led to my store on Main Street, which led to him mentioning his building right around the corner from my store which just happened to have a warehouse and loading dock, and stop right there, you had me at loading dock! Now being the busy-can't sit still girl that I am, I had to immediately, right then check out his space and when I did, I fell in LOVE!
Yes, I know it was only 4 short months ago, I fell in love with my current shop, and along with my oh so helpful husband and friend Jen, we cleaned, painted, rewired and put on the new hand crafted black and white awning which btw, I love and would take with me if it weren't bolted to the building!
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| Sigh, yep going to miss this front... |
But, like all things in life, needs and goals change so is the case with my store. Because I was a one girl show in opening my store, it was quite difficult to refurbish my pieces at my home work shop from Sunday to Wednesday so that I could have fresh treasures on the floor come Thursday at opening time. In addition to refurbishing pieces for the store, I am fortunate to receive a lot of custom work, write my blog, stage, photograph, edit and list all of my work on my website. Now, as I mentioned above I WAS a one women show, but because of the wonderful growth of my business and it's overwhelming job duties, my amazing family and friend Jen have now taken some of the load off by helping me load, unload and paint, paint, paint! Being in the new shop with the "attached" workshop will allow me to be open now 5 days a week, where I can refurbish my pieces on site and not be pressured and rushed for Thursday's when I would usually start the week.
I believe everything happens for a reason. Had I not taken that initial leap and called the number on the for rent sign last October, I wouldn't be where I am today. And, if I hadn't needed more storage for my found treasures, the opportunity to move into my new space wouldn't have presented itself to me that day.
The rest of March will of course be CRAZY with the moving and opening of the new location, but I believe it was meant to be and am completely beside myself with excitement of this yet another new adventure!
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Knott So Shabby's new home, ( shop on the left)!
First day of business will be April 2nd, 2013:)
New Address is 117 W. Locust, Columbia IL |
