The Gallery/Store front is done!! It looks great. It came together well. I have met some talented ladies who are putting some good work in the store on consignment. I am so happy and privileged to have their work in my studio. With their work, combined with some advertising and a bit of divine intervention, it will be a gallery to take notrice of.
We opened the store same weekend as the Alberta Gift Show. We have been at that show for years. We are the old timers on the floor. It was soooo very weird today not be at the show. It was even weirder that the regulars I invited to come to the studio instead of seeing me at the show, never showed, not one. It makes me kinda nervous. But as Andy Warhol said, “They say time changes everything, but actually you have to change things yourself”. If I don’t want to do as much wholesale as I have been doing, then I have less wholesale clients. If I sell retail, I only need to sell half as much to make the same amount as wholesale. It is just right now wholesale is paying the bills…… however , that is just right now…..At any rate, I will post a few pictures and then call it a night……A night…
Day two of the store has come and gone and still no one came in. It is a holiday monday here in Alberta, a lot of businesses are closed. That would explain why drop in traffic didn’t happen, just not the wholesale customers from the show??Most said they would stop in, so I guess tomorrow will be a busy afternoon. We go to the show as buyers tomorrow morning. I would like to add a few more things to the store.
Until next time.
Cindy