European Linens, Food, Home Accessories and Home Decor

As of this writing the building is still sort of pink.  Not for long, but work on the outside has halted until I return from Europe.  Oh well.

Inside is progressing well:

The furniture for the store itself is now sitting in the packing room because

the store itself is getting painted this week

Meanwhile, the warehouse has twice as much shelving as before. Will it be enough?

We had this vision of our building with a terra cotta roof and sign, sort of the colors of the rooftops in Italy.

One of us is colorblind.  And apparently so is the painter, despite us having given them the pantone colors.  Yikes.  They have to fix this, obviously

or maybe it did not photograph well.  This is being written while I am far away, so of course who knows!  We will know soon though.  I hope it’s simply the picture that is not right.

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!