The one thing I absolutely love about Country Roads is that we have a little bit of "everything". I had intended to have a variety of pictures to share, but because we were SO busy today, I wasn't able to do that. But, hey being busy is a good thing!
We started today off "running" as soon as we opened. We have a lot of square footage at the store, inside alone is over 12,000 sq feet so we have to be ready to "run" when our day starts! What that means, you've got to be able to move, to multi task and take care of five things at once. It can be exhausting!
I think what keeps our customers coming back is not only the amount of different types of things we carry and the quality of our merchandise, but also our customer service. That is why we all have to be able to "move" when it comes to helping our customers. We've got run after the stuff when the customers don't want to walk back and get it! We go run after it for them.
Display also play an important part of our store. When you set up little vignettes, it's not only appealing to the eye, but it gives our customers ideas for their own homes. On days like today, when I come home with my feet and legs aching & wiped out from being busy, it is a good feeling!! I like to be slammed and work when it's crazy. The exhaustion at days end has been worth it when we see how well we have done when you look at the totals for the day!! If you like country primitives, Ginny has the best! Just go to my side bar and click Ginny's Awesome Antiques. I put together a slideshow of some of her stuff. I promise you the "eye candy" doesn't get much sweeter than this. We are in the process of allowing our customers to purchase stuff that they see in the blogs. You just have to call the store and have a credit card ready!
For those of you that know Ginny DeRosa, you have to know what awesome primitive antiques she has. This girl comes up with things I haven't seen in years. One being, this unbelievable cupboard above! It was love at first sight for me. I would visit it, admire its white chippy paint, open and close the bins below, and just dream of how it would look in my house. I haven't "invested" in a piece like this in a very long time.
I must have looked at this cupboard each time I was at the store for the past two months, just trying to justify a reason in my mind, why it needed to be in my house. Then one day the light bulb went on! With the arrival of Baby Morgan in my home, Riley's little playroom was given up. I mean, I had to have a place to store her toys and what better place than in the deep bins of this great cupboard. Next was, how do I justify spending the money I don't really have. Ginny, being the wonderful, generous person she is, gave me a great discount (she knew she could come visit the cupboard at my house any day) and let me make monthly payments to her. What a great person, don't you think. So, as I take my time filling up this great cupboard with collections around my home, framing some pictures to add to the shelves,there isn't a day that goes by that I don't smile as I walk by this cupboard, even if "my guilt runeth over"!!
