Bird Brain Designs

We are making a picket fence inside the Shoppe to keep our Shoppe Pooches from greeting customers as the dogs run out the front door! We were inspired by a really great fence in front of a Kelseyville landmark house just a block west and across the street.  I love the house too! Steve and I getting the pickets cut with me painting the base coat……LOTS of pickets!  Seems too many for just a 12’ fence plus a generous gate.  The final fence will be painted black to match our new book/fabric cases.  That painting begins tomorrow, Monday. Back to writing instructions and finishing more NEW RedWork designs for next week….Robin

We just delivered the first load of things to the Shoppe.  Lucy, the motor home, had a full garage so it has been taken to Kelseyville and all put inside – nice to be on a roll to decorating and sorting everything out! Lots more to move. Tina and Campbell were the supervisors for the guys. Tomorrow is the first visit back to the surgeon to see how the shoulder is healing.  Tina will be very thankful to lose the huge sling with the “pillow” under her elbow.

Our LONG wall of nearly 30 feet of bookcases is nearing completion.  Tomorrow our friend, Steve, will add backs and a base finishing with crown molding along the top.  Then we will paint with a soft shade of black. Our shoppe is going to look SO great!! We plan to find some worker-bees tomorrow and take over the first load of tables and anything else we can load up in Lucy, the motor home.  We are so anxious to begin the move – but do everything else in the studio too. Stay tuned!

We had a few floor glitches but the carpet is being put down.  When the old carpet and a layer of asphalt tiles were removed, damaged concrete was discovered.  The old stuff was chipped out over the pipes holding electric and telephones put in when our spot was a bank annex. My photo doesn’t show how great the carpet colors complement the sage walls.  We are so happy every time we visit the new shoppe.  A long wall of shelves are going to be built to hold our wool and other fabric bolts plus other goodies, too.  It is going to look super! Carpet installation beginnings plus the linoleum at the front door….nice!

The shoppe outside has had a facelift and looks terrific! The terra cotta paint brings out the “5 patch” tiles over the windows.  Many folks downtown yesterday remarked they had not even noticed that the façade had very vintage tiles along the front! Here is a “before” photo…..nice new look we have going now.

Everything on our website is on SALE for you.  You buy it now and we don’t have to move it into our new shoppe! Save 10% on anything you want on our website through Wednesday the 18th. Have some fun filling your wish list. Sunday I took a drive to Kelseyville and snapped a photo of the other side of Main Street.  On the opposite corner on our block is Studebakers Café.  Lovely for coffee, pastries and sandwiches.  Next door is LuLu’s Ice Cream shop.  I enjoyed a cone of Espresso Chip, yummy.  Our old carpet is coming out this morning and new will be laid later today.  Can’t wait to show you!  Keep watching this spot.

Tina is feeling so much better after a week of sitting and sleeping in my recliner.  I’ve been the sister nurse and she has been a super patient.  Thanks so much for all the well wishes for her….just will take a long time to use that very valuable right arm and hand! As she was leaving this morning to head out to the ranch, we were greeted by the flock of wild turkeys walking around the neighborhood.  This BIG boy was showing off for the ladies in the flock.  They were not taking much notice of him though!  I was the only lady who ran for her camera to snap a shot. We never know what creature will be hanging around as we leave the house.  Guess there won’t be so many surprises in downtown Kelseyville but we really don’t know yet – we may still be surprised! Enjoy your weekend.  The sun is out and it is beautiful here at the lake after our unusually HUGE storm that rolled through the past few days.