The month of December was crazy for us. We decided to open our own store!! Crazy that it all came together the way it did. This building had been empty for about 6 months, I actually was a vendor at the store before they closed down. I drive past it every time I take things into our vendor space at Zinnias and one day I decide to call and just find out how much they are asking for it. And we realize that it might just make sense for us to venture out and do something on our own! The only hold back was the actually working of the store hours and hiring a employee wouldn't make sense financially for us. So we called the landlord to tell him that it wouldn't work for us and he told us about another couple that had also looked at the space and had told him the same thing and said "maybe you should talk to each other". I thought to myself that no way would we hit it off. It was about 2 weeks later and I finally called the number and we found ourselves out to breakfast with Roy and Sarah Short and really liking one another :)! And the rest is a journey of us deciding to run our own separate business' but sharing the actual store space and the man hours to run the store. We are so thankful for their friendship and the opportunity to do this together!
The building was in ok shape but we wanted to make it our own. So a lot of painting was done and new light fixtures. Thankfully we have wonderful dad's who came and helped out! It was a crazy month of trying to get things done at the building, buying enough inventory, doing all the paperwork and celebrating all the holidays.
Here is how it looked when we were done!
And this is how it looked the 1st day opened!!
I love everything about us owning our own store. Sure, there are times of stress but I wouldn't give it up for anything. Who knew that this is what we would be doing. What a wonderful crazy journey!
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