Our First Display

Hello my friends!

Well we did it.

Our first display for the

Blue Water Gift Shop. 

This blue spatterware vase made this display.

Trust me.

I originally ordered a gray urn....

well um...sometimes my plans dont go so well.

The urn was resin.

First mistake...not strong enough to hold everything

and started to tip over.

So I went over to our antique store and purchased 

this wonderful vase from one of our vendors. 

I then had Bob bring over these candy dishes 

that we were no longer utilizing.
7 0r 8 bags of it...cannot remember now.
All I know is it took me

 a few hours to put all of the taffy

by color in each dish.

The taffy in our other store is just in a

 large wood barrel all mixed together.

However I wanted to make a statement,

and decided to display our taffy this way. 

(blue taffy dish is behind the blue vase)

The next thing I added was this gigantic

bunny which is 6 feet tall.

He is a statement piece for sure.

Back to my table.

I cut branches from one of our shrubs

and added them to the blue vase.

Then I wired in prisms to the branches.

(sorry snowy day at time of this pic)

Next day was cloudy.

When the sun is out,

the prisms give off rainbows of light.

Right now it looks like raindrops 

coming off the branches.

Bob painted this round table 

the same blue as our cabinets.

Blue Water (Benjamin Moore)

{notice the green on top of the white cabinets}

Bob purchased some artificial grass

for our Spring Window displays.

This is my next project....

once I finish with inventory now.

Folks walking by have been stopping more,

and even walking in to find out what

we are doing.

We decided to put a flyer on the windows

and door now....but still folks come in.

I keep telling Bob we need to lock the front door.

But me thinks he likes folks stopping in.

So anyone in the area...

come on in.

Oh yeah, we actually had a sale yesterday.

A gentlemen came in and bought

a jar of jam which we just stocked.

Well friends....

back to work at the store.

Still have to order the specialty teas,

potpourri, honey...and more.

We also have a local lady coming in today

to give us samples of pretzels.

Looking forward to that.

Until next time,

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

First Display Blessings To All!

Janice