Berwyn Shops

Been a hectic week getting the new shop open, but had a few hours tonight to do a resin pour. Nice to be moving into autumn florals. Goldenrod, butterflyweed, feverfew, zinnias. Leaves soon. Also working on some memorial roses.I’m going to try to catch up tomorrow with orders that came in here. Thanks for your

I had all kinds of ambitious plans for after work last night — I’d be home by 7, so surely there’d be plenty of time to sew up a few aprons and maybe some tea towels before bed? But instead I came home and crashed. Read for a while, then Kevin chopped onions for me

I did some more work planning the workshops. If approved by the higher-ups, I’ll set up registration links. (What would you use for this? Brown Paper Ticket? Sign-Up Genius? Something else?) I think what’ll be manageable in my space are 4 people at a time, 30 minute workshops. I won’t turn away walk-ins, if there’s

Portrait of a tired shop-owner.

Oof, tired! Glad Berwyn Shops offers a couple of coffee places; got a lovely caramel latte from Gricelda, and I think that’ll carry me through until 6. Yesterday was a little harried. I’d planned to paint and stencil the floor of my shed-store, and had bought paint and a stencil for that purpose. It would’ve

Progress photos — some things will likely move around, and I’m picking up one more piece of furniture on Monday, for the open wall space. Coming along, though!

The shop still needs some work, but it’s open! First sale, a bottle stopper! 🙂

New batch of flower earrings — I really love the look of real flowers in these. Will be taking them down to the Berwyn Shops today — tomorrow is opening day! Eep. Open 11-6 on Friday.