Monday 12 September 2011

Garage Sale & Wholesale

Saturday September 10th.

The Shoppe I work at " Bead Rock " had a huge garage sale.
For two weeks we did nothing but pull out old bins and containers crammed full of old projects and half used items.

We had over 300 baggies, strands and mismatched pieces of jewellery. 

-Organized
-Priced
-Some was put into loot bags
- The gems were kept away for use at a later date of course ; )
It was a hell of a job, but we did it : ).

Lots of hype, people, sales, and new customers 
Garage sales kick ass we made a killing just off stuff that was lying around.
The old stocks gone, time to start-a-new


September 12th

Beth Bianchi (my boss) & I hit up a few wholesalers today.
We havnt been in one month, which is rare for us. Usually we go ever two weeks.
Stocked up on lots of new stuff.

Shopping for new products isnt all fun and games.
It's actually hell after a while.
A football sized storage room, filled with bins of every type of jewellery component you can imagine.
Each bin reaching about 6 feet high.
Its hard on the knee's thats for sure.


15 rows of this, it never seems to end





They have a few nice crystals there to!




After this wholesaler we hit up another one.
We stopped just as the sun was going down and got a bite to eat
Had to refuel before heading home.

A nice cold beer and the sound of my pillow hitting my head are all I think of right now.
What a day what a day

Friday 9 September 2011

September 8th/9th

September 8th
I opened up the store at 11 am
I had the urge to try out the new spray paint we bought ;)
So heres the story people; Bead rock had a dead bush , it was orange. I tried to bring it back to life more than once but the thing was totaled.
Water, Quartz crystals, talking to it, and every energy healing had no effect.
Beth and I decided to spray paint it.
Saphire blue, blue, silver and black.
It turned out pretty nice actually


Also , our bench outside the shoppe was looking like crap to, so i went to town on it.
Got a few weird looks from people
I was the local nut job , spray painting a bench and tree with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.



September 9th
Was a good day.
Managed to get a lot of my errands iv been pushing off all week done today.

Fridays at Bead Rock are great. Its a an "open house" day. People pop in for a few hours to work on different projects, show us what they have made & we all pitch in and help each other out.

Got into the shoppe around 3 o'clock only to find all the regular friday gal's there .

(left to right; Beth, Par, Carrol , Sue, Dianne , & Barbra)



Getting Ready for the Garage Sale on Saturday
All I have to say is Holy Princess Diana, Mother Teresa ...we have so much product/old stock to get rid of.
Two days of non stop going through bins, going through the basement, seeing what we need and what we don't and labeling everything by price
Lots of old stock being put on sale for cheap.
I really hope it goes over well today.


Anyways, im beat. Time for bed soon
I thought I'd show off my latest "masterpiece"
I call it "perfect" . Im thinking of charging $400-$600.
Thats a good deal right?