2 December 2008

Hello all...

The Leprechauns next door have completed their most daunting task and have managed to get all their stuff packed and away by December 1. I honestly would not have believed they could do it in such a short time but they did. They had an incredible amount of *stuff* in that place. I'm not sure where it all went but I do know the empty space now looks positively cavernous, especially with the eye of someone who has to renovate said space in less than a week.

I know the Leprechauns are happy to be moving on to other things (to quell any rumours about a hostile takeover...it was completely *their* idea to move out and it came as an absolute shock out of the blue to us on Samhain when we got the call from the landlord asking if we wanted the space. Trust me...if we'd had anything to say about the timing, we surely would not have picked the cusp of our busiest season to undertake work of this magnitude).

At any rate, our parting with the Leprechauns was an amicable one and I will really miss them both.

On a related note, I realize this doesn't give much time but we've got confirmation of painting happening today, December 2, 2008!

Ed and I and others will be at Where Faeries Live from 9 am onward. The goal today is to get the walls painted in Part II.

We need to move fast on the painting because the flooring we propose for this space is three step process that needs to cure between applications. And the Open House is this coming Saturday. Ambitious timeline indeed.

There is also a large number of shelves that need to be painted, which will be fun because most of them still have product on them. Interesting times but I think we'll be able to figure it out (anyone remember those little handheld games from the 70's where you pushed little plastic squares around in a frame in an attempt to sort them out into a picture? It'll be like that. Erg. I'm betraying my age.)

Anyway, if you've got time and want to drop by to help out, wear your grubby clothes and expect to be worked like a rented mule. The payoff will be a food bribe of some kind. I'm thinking pizza (no beer though...alcohol, ladders, and paint, from my own personal experience, sadly, do not mix well)