Well, while it’s been snowing all day… at the end of April no less, I spent a little more time working on the space. Since the floor in “the alcove” the area where the changing rooms are destined to be, I had to do something about it. I thought the best thing to do was [...]

I’m finally satisfied with the painting in the store. The pink is gone. The bathroom is repainted and clean, the closet door has been rehung, the sink and toilet have been scrubbed. All of the masking tape has been taken down. I did something a little bit different with the changing room, I’ll be adding [...]

I’m almost done painting the white stuff… the pink is still bleeding through so, it’ll need to be coated again. I finished cleaning and painting the floor in the bathroom, battleship gray. I put on two massively thick coats of it. I also got a lamp for the bathroom, because there wasn’t one. Unfortunately I [...]

I had help from some friends painting today, mercifully. Thank you Justin and Jake. Between the three of us, we got most of the white parts painted. But the pink bleeds through like no ones business and unfortunately everything that needs to be painted white is textured so you can’t really use a roller effective, [...]

Day two. I didn’t get much done the first day other than assessing the situation, day two it was time to pick out a paint. Since yellow and pink were not doing it for me, especially with large swaths of wall being a deep maroon. So, I meditated long and hard about what color to paint my [...]

I’m writing this as if to be the same day it happened, but it was actually 3 days ago. Both of my parents own used clothing/consignment stores in Vermont. I never thought I would be involved with retail while I was growing up. But recently I’ve changed my tune. A few weeks ago I wanted [...]