We still haven't gotten the store decked out for the holidays. The time has flown by, especially the month of November!
This is an awesome country, primitive cabinet. What you can't see in this picture is the old red paint inside the cupboard, which looks awesome with the chippy white paint on the outside! Great for the holiday season. Interested? Stop on by, we will happily load it up for you!
This is the part of Country Roads that Rachel did her book signing at last week at this time. Now it's time to pull Christmas together in this area, which still isn't done yet. I'm not sure if our little fireplace will be working this year, as we try to get this new vignette set up. We could use some "warmth" in the store! Yesterday morning when I left for the store it was 59 degrees out. Let's remember, this is sunny SoCal and that is COLD in my opinion!
Our "antlered" friend shines proudly as he helps bring in the holiday season at Country Roads. And a reminder before you get upset with the dead animal, I don't hunt, I don't eat meat, so please remember I did not shoot this poor creature myself nor did anyone else at Country Roads! We found him like this, minus the holiday decorations!
I love the look of old winter sleds and skates in our displays. I decorate my own front porch at home with this type of display. Although I have to admit I tried skiing once, hated it, crashed my only toboggan ride down a hill into a tree, and to be real honest, I hate snow. But, I do love to display snow related fun stuff. With all this said, I should start getting ready to go to work. We've got to finish up our Christmas displays before Christmas sneaks up on us!
The look on my son Bryce's face pretty much sums up a day at Country Roads on a Sunday. He is tired from leaving the house at 3:30am yesterday to sell at "Vet's", the Long Beach Flea Market. If there was a picture of me here, I would have the same look on my face from working all day at Country Roads. The public, they leave me speechless. If you work in this business, you know what I'm talking about. I can't EVEN go there this morning. People, at times, leave me speechless! After work, my family all got together at this little family owned Mexican restaurant last night to celebrate Brande's birthday. We were upstairs, and everything echoed which the girls loved. As you can tell, "my girls" weren't tired at all. They had a great time. I like to do business with small, family owned businesses. I KNOW how hard they work!!
This is a picture of one of our front window displays. It is difficult to take pictures of the window displays because of the glare. I LOVE this display. I pulled a bunch of stuff from my house and gave Bryce and idea of what I wanted, you know, a fun summer themed window. And here is what I got!
Bryce is really good at displaying, and because I love summer and the beach, I fell in love with this window! One of the reasons the window is so hard to display is because we only have about a three foot ledge. Nonetheless, it turned out awesome. With all that said, I best get ready to head out the door to the happiest place on earth, Country Roads! I've got my fingers crossed that customers are nicer today, and checks I take are not "rubber"!! After work, I get to go see a 3-D or 4-D ultra sound of my new grandson. I want to see what my baby boy is going to look like! Have a happy Monday, and behave yourselves in public ;0}
