This is as far as I got setting up the new store — the first photo is the most complete, taken just before I walked out last night. I’m reasonably happy with it so far, but I think there are a few tweaks needed. The biggest issue is the window — I think an open […]
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Progress update / schedule for the day — go, go, go: 8:15 – 11:00 — meet with Eliana, who is helping me with photography and inventory 11:00 – 2 — go down to store and work on layout, entering items into inventory, labels, thankfully accept muffin from coworker 2 – 3 – head to campus,
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— okay, a lot frenetic. I typically try to keep my committed work weeks down to about 30 hours / week right now — that’s the time that I have to put in for teaching, prep, grading, school board work, SLF work. It doesn’t count writing or crafting time; that flexes as I have energy
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Editing to note, I was wrong, they don’t require UPC codes. Whew! They generate an internal SKU for us. *** Business question — I need to use UPC codes for the inventory tracking system at the new Berwyn Sprout shop. It looks like I have to buy them, the same way I have to buy
Finished apron! And look how insanely adorable it is with the coordinating pinch potholders. I die. Pattern linked below. It’ll be in the Serendib @ Sprout store next week, fingers crossed! Fabric is “Elephant March,” by Cody Scarborough. https://www.spoonflower.com/…/643353-elephant-march… ***** Berwyn Sprout Small Business Incubator 7129 Cermak Rd, Berwyn Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-8pm Sunday
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Yesterday I tried a new experiment — making ‘millefiori’ style polymer clay earrings. Let me just say that I strongly recommend choosing something naturalistic like flowers or fruit slices for your first attempt at these, at least if you’re someone like me, someone who is not very precise by nature. I think the end results
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Working through the ‘open store in 4 days’ to-do list. I’ve crossed two things off. Many more to go.
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Anand says, “One of the best parts of turning 14 is that I can call all my friends ‘kids,’ because none of them are 14 yet.” Apparently 13 is a kid, but 14 is not? I don’t make up the rules, folks, I just report from the front lines… Set up in photo for Anand’s
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So, on a totally different note than the last academic one, I went down to my little soon-to-be-storefront in Berwyn today to scope out the Sprout business incubator space and make plans. I took measurements, photographed every single other booth in the incubator to garner ideas, brainstormed what I’d want for the look of the
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