Happy New Year = Happy Shopping for us!

Happy New Year!
We’ve been absent from the blog but our excuse is simply – the holiday madness! And we’re glad to be back, but we aren’t really, January kicks off our busiest time of year for shopping – we are now buying about 50-60% of the items we will be adding to the site (and soon to the new store) throughout the year.

So far it’s been promising. The Atlanta Gift Show is always huge, and this year it seems to be bigger than ever. And there is a festive, almost giddy, feeling of relief in the air – as in whew, 2009 is over, hurray for 2010!

Today the Mart turned interesting as Atlanta experienced snow and then freezing temperatures, i.e. black ice. Once every ten years and it’s chaos out there. So getting to town was a touch dicey but once there, we shopped and shopped. 4 days down, 2 more to go.

So far we’ve found more than we had hoped, a good thing!

After this show, we start shopping the European ones. We’ll see what wonderful goodies we can find!

Meanwhile, greetings from:

It really doesn’t take much to bring this city to a standstill – it simply is not the kind of weather we ‘do’ down here!