Hey everybody.
How are things?
Well it's official. August has sounded it's horn and September is ready to step up.
We spent the majority of the rest of our weekend ripping the nooks and crannies of our home apart and cleaning our home top to bottom.
Since we took possession of our shop back in February we have been surface tidy-ing our home and feeling clean on the outside but we both knew that we needed to spend some time and really clean our house.
Well 3 bags of garbage later, 4 boxes for the thrift store, a million loads of laundry getting slipcovers and sofas and bedding clean, a load of expired food out of the pantry, a few full canisters with the vacuum and a glorious adventure with a new steam mop. Our home feels like ours again. We are both neat people, I am very lucky and although exhausted we both feel a job well done.
I think it just made it worse because our basement feels like such a disaster still even though we are starting to progress there too, that our upstairs just needed to feel "cleaner".
Speaking of getting things done, I also finally crossed off another thing off my list at the shop.
For those who have visited you know that the building I am located in also houses the Fonthill animal hospital. With the way the signs and doors are situated the whole building generally looks the same. We are slowly adding our touches to give our part of the building its own identity.
I painted my front door after work one day last week.
but I wanted the goldilocks of green
not too bright
and
not too grass
It turned out to be the perfect shade of deep green.
I want to paint everything in this colour and am having a brain wave for that.
Our door however now has a stance, a statement of what is inside that door.
It makes me happy and especially since I have been meaning to do it since May.
You can see in this photo from May that all the doors and trim looked the same.
A few shots inside the store as well for those that don't have instagram or Facebook.
We were super excited to get our first bit of K Barr Co apothecary items and the white products look great beside the black of the cupboard.
I probably could have just matched the green from their packaging. Such beautiful packaging it is too, besides smelling amazing.
I found these 2 pots a few weeks ago. 1 says flourish and 1 says grow. There are only 2 but I really like the wood grain texture.
I put some white and green snake plants in the drawer of our tool bench and filled in the gaps with golden moss. A little touch of autumn even though we aren't getting totally decked out for about 2 weeks as we await the arrival of all the fall goodies I have sourced out.
Everyone's favourite golden moss is also back in stock in 4" pots this time. They are nice and young so will have a long time growing in these pots to freshen up homes.
Lots of goodies still in store (although I am excited to redo this shelf for sure) and last week I added some sunflowers in a few of the bottles and it brings some life to the displays.
And continuing with the lets get our building noticed for retail reason we also added a green flag to our sign. Now you can tell your friends to just look for the green flag.
Well have a great day everyone.
I am headed out to do lots of sewing and I am doing a little "teaching" as a friend is learning to paint some furniture. It should be a great fun and and productive day.
Meg
