Happy Fall Weekend to All!

{next week lots of new products}

{for your encouragement and these will be available soon}

{our popular sheep will be grazing again in our store}

{linens always inspiring}

{our popular loving cup kit-so cute}

I Spy Touches of Red

{Thursday was Kara's day off
Made homemade chicken & wild rice soup}

{Getting Luke's outfit ready for fall pics,
attaching the "L" red & white ribbon on upper sleeve of
parchment color sweater.}

{Tickets for the glee club and choir at Miami University Oxford, Ohio
A beautiful old campus 1809-2009 celebrates their 2ooth year.
Cute red & white ticket can't wait to attend with dear friends.}

{Love touches of red}

Fall is here!
K

Peek Inside!

Lots of new at McMaster & Storm

more to come tomorrow! 

I will be writing a lengthy blog post 

Friday on all the new with links.

Already 24 new products uploaded

and many more to get done.

Our tech guy is busy getting things done

for us too!

*Purchase 75.00 or more and we'll tuck our 

custom prize ribbon in your package!

{can't wait to show you our one-of-a-kind

ribbons that we make...available late Friday online

we promise! Many of you have been asking

and it's coming to fruition!}

*Purchase $40.00 and we'll tuck our petite tablet set

inside your package.

{shipping not included for the total amount}

We want to finish up website this week and are busy getting our

 store fluffed. Can't wait to show what Darcy has been busy doing 

at the shop.....visual merchandising it's her talent!

The day before we head out........

{Think of us while we are packing up the shop today}

Good morning!

It's chilly here this morning in Ohio. A bit snappy, fresh after our rainy Monday night. The corn is turning over to it's bountiful harvest color and even though the days warm up you feel fall in the air. Coffee is steaming hot in my cup and after a good night's rest I am ready to start my day.

One last post before we head out tomorrow. All in all things are going well. As a shop owner I'm amazed at the checking and re-checking of orders. Yesterday I called to see about our shopping bags for the event as they were nowhere in sight yet. The company decided to ship them to Southeast Asia instead. Not really, but they had the previous store listed before us with our address. The FedEx driver didn't recognize this store name and it was sent back. They are going to ship out next day air so we hope they show up today. Shop owners do so much checking on things this leaves little time for posting, taking pics, etc. for our blog.

We are shipping out all orders today. Those of you who were waiting on staplers they have arrived in a lovely shade dark aqua green. This is the only color they sent us and we do have one red one as well that showed up. Refills are back in stock. We will ship out all new orders next Wednesday.

Enjoy your day!

Fall open house pics & you thought we disappeared!

We had a week that was a flurry of pricing, detail work, moving things around, cleaning, late nights and early*early mornings! This morning as I was driving Luke to my Mother's house, there is a small stretch of the road that is very pretty. Woods on both sides, it curves slightly, the leaves are changing, well it's peaceful. (these are rural country roads, you might pass a car and likely you won't) When I reached the bend in the road a thought popped into my head, we sometimes are driving along and things are going fine until we come to a bend in the road, and "things" seem to unravel. Lately "things" have been challenging, and I have questioned if the benefits outweigh the costs.

BUT, WHAT IF WE GIVE UP BEFORE THE BEND AND IF WE WOULD JUST KEEP GOING, EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE & STRAIGHTEN OUT! We are so capable of thinking of the here & now and if we would look ahead there is a lot of tremendous excitings things happening AFTER THE BEND IN ROAD!
Looking up & looking out: we'll keep you posted on the exciting things that will be coming to fruition "after our bend in the road"! Happy Fall, it's officially here today.

also a little song was sung to me this morning by Darcy's children
"Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Kara
Happy Birthday to you
CHA, CHA, CHA!"
(yes, they did say the last three words!)
I'm 3 decades + 3 years old today!

Inspiration

{cute, cute begging for us to take it home to McMaster & Storm}

Darcy & I are off this weekend to pick up a vintage-y china cabinet. I spotted this awhile back took a photo and it's still at the shop. Good for us, as we have ideas for it. We are not painting it nor changing the knobs, but we're going to show you what we do with it when "our inspiration" finished. Check back often!

A customer asked Darcy yesterday, "where do you get your inspiration for the store?" Well, it's everywhere, in nature, fabrics, textures, colors, flea marketing & in our creative fabrications. (sometimes even in the wee hours of the morning) Our homes also play a role; testing ideas and just rearranging furniture in our homes gets us going! We are blessed to have the gifts that God has given us, and need to use them to glorify him. Sometimes we forget how awesome our Creator is.

Fall is coming out in the store, Darcy finished details on our wheat sheaves and our new deeper hued rugs are in as well. We should see delivery trucks a lot this next week or so. Also, sending out greetings to our "retailer friends" may you have a wonderful fall season at your shops, we are so blessed to know everyone of you!

Warm Regards,
Kara & Darcy